"denominational baptism"

[banished]

Sacrament

But faith needs the community of believers. It is only within the faith of the Church that each of the faithful can believe. The faith required for Baptism is not a perfect and mature faith, but a beginning that is called to develop.

For all the baptized, children or adults, faith must grow after Baptism. For this reason the Church celebrates each year at the Easter Vigil the renewal of baptismal promises. Preparation for Baptism leads only to the threshold of new life. Baptism is the source of that new life in Christ from which the entire Christian life springs forth.

[zoonance]

So because  many of us   received  our   faith in Jesus in infant baptism . This fellow says were   not  christian .

Are you saying you received faith as an infant? All infants know is "I'm hungry", "I'm sleepy", "I need my diaper changed." How can an infant have faith? Why be baptized if you don't have faith?

That sounds just like me now.

[zoonance]

I just heard one of the finest sermons on baptism that I have ever heard.  It was presented by Johnny Hunt.  I have not been able to find a link yet but will do so if possible.  I have written them inquiring on this.


*The kind of sermon that should be preached on baptism.

[walker starr]

I was baptized (or so thay called it) as an infant.

When I began to read the Bible for myself, I saw that all baptizees (is that a word?) were expected to believe and repent on their own.

So when I chose to get baptized as an adult, it wasn't because my previous baptism was done in the wrong church.  It was because my previous rite wasn't a Christian baptism.

So because  many of us   received  our   faith in Jesus in infant baptism . This fellow says were   not  christian .  

Shouldlnt we then who were infant baptized   reject the  christianity of any one who is  baptist or believes simular to them ? I dont know what do you think?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  I think what is right for Stevehut is right for Stevehut.  What may be right for some one else may be different.  The HOLY SPIRIT directs each of us individually.  
Thank you Jesus,amen.


 

[Snargles]

I think what is right for Stevehut is right for Stevehut.  What may be right for some one else may be different.  The HOLY SPIRIT directs each of us individually. 

A postmodernist, eh?
Truth is truth. We should all be baptized as infants or we should all be baptized as believing adults. Who we are doesn't matter. God dispenses the grace and he is no respecter of persons.

[zoonance]

The sermon I mentioned touches on infant baptism as well.