Question: I have a couple of friends that are Baptists that have asked me if baptism replaces circumcision, and circumcision was only for the male child, why are girls then baptized? Answer: Thanks for your question. It is fair to say that baptism has come in the place of circumcision as the sacrament of initiation…
Question: I have started to really study the Word about infant vs adult baptism. Over and over the New Testament states “they believed and were baptized.” According to our catechism infants should not be excluded from the covenant and it is to distinguish them from the children of unbelievers. It also states that baptism replaces…
Question: I have started to really study the Word about infant vs adult baptism. Over and over the New Testament states “they believed and were baptized.” According to our catechism infants should not be excluded from the covenant and it is to distinguish them from the children of unbelievers. It also states that baptism replaces…
Question: Why do we baptize a child three times, in the sense that we place water on the child three times in the baptism? In the name of the Father (water), and the Son (Water) and the Holy Spirit (water)? Answer: There was a controversy in the early church about how often to immerse/pour/sprinkle…