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Originally Posted by Sam
I faced a situation something like that a couple of years ago. I visited an elderly man in his home to pray for him. (By the way we don't visit in a home or hospital to pray for someone without their permission). I had visited his wife in a local hospital several months before to pray for her after knee surgery.
This couple were practicing Roman Catholic and their adult daughter had been immersed at the Vineyard church. They expressed unhappiness that their daughter had been immersed and "joined that church" since they had her "baptized" as a baby and had raised her Catholic. I talked a little about how baptism in the first century church was by immersion for believers and later changed over the years to include infant baptism. I told them that what their daughter did was not a repudiation of her baptism as a baby but was actually a validation of what they had done by having her baptized and by raising her in a Christian environment. I told them that what they had done was admirable. They had their child baptized as an act of dedication to God and as a public symbol of their vows to raise her in the Church. She had no say in that infant baptism. Now she was an adult (in her thirties) and she had made a personal decision to serve God. Her choosing to be publicly baptized by immersion was a public declaration of her decision to dedicate her life to God and to live for him. They seemed to accept that.
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