tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3453875372487979052.post4867736311723013367..comments2023-11-03T01:09:39.854-07:00Comments on Baptismal Life: To Baptize or not baptize babies?Pastor Finnernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12071077309359460750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3453875372487979052.post-9930535288092254032008-08-04T19:45:00.000-07:002008-08-04T19:45:00.000-07:00Isn't a difference between infant and adult baptis...Isn't a difference between infant and adult baptism? I know they both use water and word, but it seems they are apples and oranges. When I was teaching in Washington I had two students get baptized while they were in sixth and seventh grade. I went to the baptism and heard their witness of faith. It was not the same thing as what happened last December with my son Sam.<BR/> I'm not questioning the way the Holy Spirit moves or that He did not move in these two girls, but I believe they had already recieved this gift. What they did was more a public statement of faith that the Holy Spirit had already given to them.<BR/> It saddens me that many youth and youth people who are baptized by thier choice are alot more active in thier faith, at least outwardly. I wish there was a way for good infant baptized Christians to make their statement of faith. Not because they need to, or because it will make them "better" with God. But because the Holy Spirit has crated a faith of Salvation through Christ and now they want to share it.Aaron Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05582475425858235485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3453875372487979052.post-87366159856798248942008-07-16T05:57:00.000-07:002008-07-16T05:57:00.000-07:00Pastor Finnern, Excellent blog! Thanks for invitin...Pastor Finnern, <BR/><BR/>Excellent blog! Thanks for inviting me to into your readership. I think you hit the nail on the head with this post. Churches that don't allow infant baptism are pelagian in one way or another. They don't fully buy into what paul says about faith itself being a gift from God. All this serves to disembowel "grace alone" by injecting some form or human will into the picture. You could explore in more detail how baptism grows out of Article II of the Augustana. Great blog so far. Keep up the good thought.joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13678799536620636971noreply@blogger.com