The situation above is actually my situation. My mother baptized me in the roman catholic church (but she wasn't a believer at that point). She was saved when I was about 4 and thankfully left the RCC and I was brought up in a protestant christian church. I later was saved at 17 1/2 and had a prompting to get baptized later. I was going to get baptized at my church and spoke with my pastor about it and then he asked me if I was baptized as a baby. At the time I had to go ask my mother if I was baptized in the RCC because I didn't know. She never mentioned it, because it really wasn't important since she wasn't a believer then and being in the RCC, etc. So when I told my pastor about this he told me that he really wasn't sure if he'd baptize me then. Well I was really thrown for a loop here and upset about this. It was clear to me that this baptism didn't mean anything because my mother did it out of religious conviction, wasn't a believer at the time, and my dad wasn't a believer (and still isn't). He was trying to tell me that the faith of my parents brought me to be baptized, etc. What faith???
I totally understand. I was baptized twice as a youngster. Once when i was six by a homosexual pentecostal. The second into the mormon church. When I became a Christian I decided neither of these were performed by what I would call true ministers. I decided to be rebaptised. My pastor said that he was willing to accept the pentecostal baptism but I was adamant about being rebaptised. He understood and performed the act.
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What faith??? (as I described) and one cannot give any salvation to one's child by baptism.
Agreed. Although those children within the visible covenant surely have access to more than those outside. Nobody here holds to baptismal regeneration. We baptize children because they are covenant children.
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So isn't immersion of the baptism important?? Just for the adult??
Not prescribed in scripture. Not necessarily described in scripture.
