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Old Nov 16, 2006, 06:37 PM
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pentecostal god-parents?

K My Best Friend Of 5 Years Is Pregnant And She Wants Me To Be The God Mom But She Reciently Heard It Is Against Her Relgon Which Is Penicostal
And I Was Wodnering If That Is True Or False Help Us We Wanna Know Is Having A God Mom For Ur Child In The Penicostal Religon Is Agianst The Rules
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Old Nov 16, 2006, 06:39 PM   #2  
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Can't she just ask her preacher?

Oh, yeah, and no need for all the initial caps.
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Old Nov 16, 2006, 06:44 PM   #3  
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well i dont think she can ask her preacher because she dont goto church :S
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So she's getting the child baptised but she doesn't go to church? Sounds a bit odd. Why have the child baptized in the first place?
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You know what I would say. Who cares if it is against the rules or not. I would nicely tell them to stick it a place which is not to sunny in a nice caring way of course. If it is important to have a God mother and she really wants you to be one, you know what No church can tell you yes or no. It is up to the individual. If this is a true rule then the rule needs to be thrown out the window. Although, most people end up following the rules anyway. God has already given life to the baby. It is up to the parents whether the baby gets baptised or not. It is up to the parents to church God parents or not.

Me, for example: Both my wife and I wanted to get married outside by the water. Our Catholic priest told us that The churches belief is all of this has to be in the church because Jesus is within the church. So you are telling me that God is in a church and that the only way we can have a ceremony is within the church because blaa bla blaa bla. You know what, stupid stupid rule. God is everywhere. People can gather anywhere.

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Skell agrees: Im with you Joe. Tell em to stick it. Its your chocice!
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the baby is not born yet but when it is born sshe wants me to be the god mom but appariently by the rules no penticostal can have a god parent
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Ok, first if she don't go to church, she is not really a very stong church member. Penticostals expect you to be in church 2 or 3 times a week at least normally. And at least once a week.

Penticostals do not bapitise infants, they do not beleive in it, They accept adult or older young people over 12 normally who they believe can understand and accept Christ.

Some ( and remember there are a dozen groups that are Penticostals)
will have a dedication of the child to the Lord, but this does not normally include God Parents.

Infant baptism is normally done in Lutheran, Catholic, Epispopal, and Orthodox Churches.

Also you choose a God parent as someone who knows and lives your faith, and would be responsible to teach them your religion if you die.
So a person who does not know thier church rules would not be a good choice, And next of course the person having the baby does not appear to know what their own faith beleives. ????

If they don't even know what they beleive, they don't go on any regular basis, what do they even care if they baptise or not ?

It sounds like they used to be another faith and converted or married into a church but do not attend.
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I attend a pentecostal church and my girls have God parents who are also named in our will which we had done through our church. So, I have personally never heard that.

I agree with chuck about the god parent being able to teach them and raise them in the faith that you had. The first thing I think of as a God parent is, the person I want my child to live with if something happened to me, but I also don't have any other blood family I would let them be with, so hope this helps you some. The God parents to our girls are the couple that we would want our kids to be raised by if something happend to my husband and I. And they do believe the same and they are members of the same church.
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