Some particular issues: Infant baptism and Covenant making.
Need to do research on them. Would appreciate if any one can contribute with discussion, information.
Why: ? Because I currently don’t agree with the two abovementioned.
Cremation is another issue.But not that pressing yet(?).
Please pray for me. I will be facilitating bible study with Haomin next year for Pri 6 students. I want to get things right, and teach them correctly. I don’t want to teach something that is from the ’syllabus’, but yet something I don’t believe in. Get my drift? So I’m doing research on said topics and getting my own bible study done too. More importantly is my spiritual life and walk, which needs alot of work on.
And, I’m happy.
I don’t believe in infant baptism!! Had a long and sometimes infuriating discussion with my mom about this, but we’ve walked away from it with still yet different views. Perhaps we could talk about it on skype one day~
Basically my take is that it’s 1) not of your own conscious choice, and the bible said ‘make disciples of all man and baptise them in the name of……etc.’ - How can you consciously will to be a disciple when someone else is making that decision for you? 2) and yes it’s good if your parents would like you to continue in the ‘Christian tradition’ or faith, but can’t they just replace it with a ‘dedication’ of the infant to the church and to God? Churches who don’t practise infant baptism here do that.
My mom basically believes that there are merits in this practice, like it keeps a mark or a hold (perhaps spiritually too) on the infants that underwent baptism, and sometimes that provides a buffer way back for the kid lest he should stray at some point. But my argument is that infant baptism may have done more damage than good because many people walk away from church dangerously thinking that they’re christians because they’ve been baptised as a baby and grew up church-going or in sunday sch. Of course she had her own refutations, but I’ll leave it here or else it’ll get too long!
Comment by enqi — January 22, 2007 @ 2:00 am