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Everybody has different beliefs and belong to different denominations. My question is for parents. Have you had your baby baptised when he/she was a baby. Or have some of you decided to wait until the child is older to make up his/her own mind on what they want to do.
What are your beliefs on baptism, when should it be done, or approximately?
All 4 of my children were baptised into the Catholic religion at a very tender age. They were all infants.
As the two oldest grew older and wanted to experiment with other religions I did not hold them back. The oldest was recently "baptised" (his choice) into the Baptist religion.
So I guess it is all a matter of personal preference really.
My children were all baptized when they were infants. At that time, I had converted to Lutheranism and they taught infant baptism as well as my Catholic upbringing did. So I was in agreement. When we (as a family) started attending an Assembly of God church and were taught about water baptism, we took classes about that and wanted to be baptized again.
I do not see anything wrong with infant baptism and I do not see anything wrong with waiting until the child is old enough to understand what baptism means and can make his/her own decision.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Repentance is the key word here. A sinless child can not repent.
Some denominations don't practice infant baptism at all, nor do the parents have any binding say on when or if... I think that was part of what Starman was indicating.
There is a correlation between infant baptism and the teaching of original sin - at least that is what I was always taught was the reason why infants were baptized. Now one can argue, successfully I think, that infants cannot sin and if they died, they would enter heaven. However, if your Church doctrine states that man is born with original sin, then you take the necessary steps and baptize your child when he/she is still a baby.
Had the first one baptised at about 8 months, mostly due to mother-in-law pressure. Our second child is now 2 years old, not baptised and not likely to be.
son, 3 isnt baptised. wife and i grew up catholic, so it feels a little odd to both of us not to have done it. some things we miss, like the weekly eucharist and other rituals of our childhood.
we are now protestant, and we could have baptised our son, there was no pressure not to... but i think i wanted him to be able to make a choice. if im wrong and my God looks down on my son for my decision... well then im very mistaken about the love of my God.
btw, i was actually baptised twice. once in the hospital neonatal unit (preemie 2.5 mo early, nobody thought id live) and then again when i was old enough to understand what it meant, before my first communion.
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