The Belfast Telegraph had a great article today. I just had to provide a link to it. For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing here is a snippet.
'Given Christian teaching, does it make more sense to baptize dead adults rather than live babies?"
"What’s the difference, anyway, between baptising the dead and baptising babies? A tiny infant will have as much understanding as a dead person — none at all — of the complex philosophical belief-system it’s being inducted into when baptised".
"Indeed, given that all Christian Churches believe that the soul lives on after death and retains understanding and consciousness of self, doesn’t it make more sense to baptise dead adults than live babies?"
3 comments:
Baptizing babies makes the assumption that they are born sinful and need some kind of repentance. We don't believe that this is the case. By being baptized (by PROXY) for someone who has died, they are given the option of accepting the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ or not. Nothing is forced, just offered. There is an age of accountability, and since baptism comes with expectations we believe it is immoral to baptize children who cannot be responsible. Children, therefore are baptized at age 8.
Adam, There is a God who is our actual Father in Heaven. Jesus Christ is his son. This fact is not changed just because someone does not believe it anymore than the earth becomes flat or gravity fails because someone chooses not to believe those facts.
There are plenty of places to express ones unbelief. I do not see why I need to have this blog be one of those places. Therefore I have deleted your comment.
Adam, Just because you do not believe does not change the facts. I know in who I trust.
As for being to smart to believe; the more educated most Mormons are, the stronger their belief.
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