Baptism
I need two things from my fellow Christians.
First, for those coming from traditions with infant baptism, if you aren’t planning to ever go to church or teach your child about Christianity, please don’t bother having them baptized. I know that often you do it because your families expect it but let’s make it a thing to just say no to promising to do stuff you don’t plan to ever do. That’s lying and wow it’s really bad to lie to God.
Second, for those coming from traditions that maintain that only adult baptism is valid, please to get thyself educated regarding infant baptism and how it is meant to work.
Said education follows below.
Infant baptism isn’t about a confessed faith from the child. It is about the parents promising to raise their child to know and love God so that one day they will claim that faith for themselves.
The expectation is that, once the child is old enough and has done enough learning about the history of the Church and about the faith and so on, they will claim Christ crucified and vow to follow Him of their own volition, and they will then confirm that choice through the rite of Confirmation, which involves the laying on of hands to indicate the dwelling of Holy Spirit—baptism in the Spirit as at Pentecost.
Y’all gotta stop besmirching stuff you know nothing about, there is nothing bad about infant baptism and Confirmation when they are undertaken sincerely. It may not be in the Bible in exactly the way it’s practised, but literally nothing about our services is.
(This post brought to you by me turning off the radio when the people talking started talking about baptism and immediately went to baptizing babies and went to the Bible to refute it. They couldn’t even pronounce the Hebrew words correctly, and I’m mad at them in general, so you get the rant.)