Now I understand. That's interesting. Yes,you are making perfectly good sense, in this sense, you could compare your Methodist baptism, to the ritual immersion that all converts to Judaism must undergo, except that with Jews, the immersion is NOT the covenant itself, just part of the purification and rebirth involved in the process (Native Jews, don't have to immerse at all).
Interesting that all Christians are baptized, even those born to already families who themselves are already Christian. If baptism was postponed until adulthood, and thus involved personal choice of the person, that would make more sense to me. But if you're baptizing infants, why baptize at all, people already born into your covenant? I guess, it is more akin to Jewish circumcision, that to ritual immersion.
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Date: 2005-11-27 09:11 pm (UTC)Interesting that all Christians are baptized, even those born to already families who themselves are already Christian. If baptism was postponed until adulthood, and thus involved personal choice of the person, that would make more sense to me. But if you're baptizing infants, why baptize at all, people already born into your covenant? I guess, it is more akin to Jewish circumcision, that to ritual immersion.