Christian parents want their newborn baby to be baptised to be a member of the Christian family.

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Iain Keay 10L                      Baptising Babies

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Christian parents want their newborn baby to be baptised to be a member of the Christian family. The parents make the choice to baptise the child on the child’s behalf so they promise to raise the child with Christian values and morels. But later on in life when the child becomes a teenager they are asked to back their baptism up with their own personal commitment to the church and to God by been Confirmed.

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   Believer’s baptism is for those able to show a personal commitment to Christ. Some Christians do not accept infant baptism for example Baptists, Pentecostals, Evangelicals and the Brethren.

   Those old enough can be baptised, however some of these churches have infant dedication instead of infant baptism.

   Certain signs and symbols help to represent things during baptism, water is used to represent washing away of sin. Infant baptism is original sin, sin that all people are born with as ancestors of Adam and Eve.

   The sin that is washed away during adult baptism is more ...

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