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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
Churches differentiate between christening/dedication and infant baptism for this reason.
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Okay, I'm veering even
further off topic here, but huh? Not sure I follow you.
Christening (meaning at its root "to make Christian") and baptism are the same thing. Christening is just the traditional term used in England; I mainy hear it used by Episcopalians in the US, and I hear fewer and fewer of them use it. (Although I have had Baptist friends who insist on calling the baptism of an infant "christening" because they refuse to even suggest that an infant could be baptized.)
Dedication is, of course, different from baptism/christining. But I don't see how the lack of belief that baptism remits original sin (at least formulated in the same way as Catholics would typically formulate it) gives rise to that distinction. Seems to me the distinction comes from the disagreement as to whether baptism must be preceded by a decision of faith.