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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you. Most Christians -- Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed/Presbyterian, Methodist -- do practice infant baptism; obviously, they do not see it as a public declaration of faith -- at least of the infant's faith. (Some see it as a declaration of the parent's faith.)


I see the distinction you are making, although I would disagree with the statement that if a child is "christened," and "stays in the eyes of God" he does not need baptism. He doesn't need baptism because he has already been baptized, and those traditions that practice baptism of infants also hold that baptism cannot be repeated.

/hijack/

My church does not believe in nor do we practice infant baptism. We feel that the person must first study and understand the Word of God before he / she is baptized. Nor do we pratice infant christening.

/end hijack/