ALL ABOUT CHILD BAPTISM

In the mod­ern sense of the word, bap­tism is a Chris­tian rit­u­al or sacra­ment stat­ing the cleans­ing of sins or oth­er re­li­gious im­pu­ri­ties. Fol­low­ing bap­tism, Chris­tian be­liev­ers are greet­ed in­to the Church body as sa­cred mem­bers. Most bap­tism events in­volve the use of wa­ter, even though dif­fer­ent Chris­tian de­nom­i­na­tions have var­i­ous meth­ods of bap­tiz­ing con­gre­gants. Some cler­gy­men would in­ter­sperse the wa­ter over a ba­by, while oth­ers fa­vor to ful­ly sub­merge an adult per­son in a body of wa­ter.

The idea of bap­tism in fact pre­dates Chris­tian­i­ty. The Greek word for bap­tism has no holy con­no­ta­tions at all. To the Greeks, in­duc­tion ex­plained a sub­mer­sion or dip­ping, in the sense of a dip­ping ship or a part of cloth be­ing sub­merged in dye. There is one more Greek word, around spelled rap­ti­zo that is said to sig­ni­fy sprin­kling or pour­ing. This dif­fer­ence be­tween bap­ti­zo and rap­ti­zo does have some man­ner on the new Chris­tian rit­u­al of bap­tism.

Some of the sects with­in Ju­daism as well ex­pe­ri­enced a form of bap­tism be­fore the en­trance of Je­sus Christ. The nec­es­sary con­cept of pu­ri­fy­ing one’s re­li­gious body is same to the mod­ern Chris­tian rite, but it was al­so ex­treme­ly un­like in its in­tent. When John the Bap­tist start­ed to per­form his own bap­tism cer­e­monies, it was in uni­ty with the ob­tain­able Jew­ish prac­tice. When Je­sus Christ came at the Jor­dan Riv­er for His own bap­tism, John the Bap­tist doc­u­ment­ed the dif­fer­ence be­tween his own main­ly rep­re­sen­ta­tive cer­e­mo­ny and the fu­ture bap­tism by the Holy Trin­i­ty of the Fa­ther, Son and Holy Ghost.

As Chris­tian­i­ty start­ed gain­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty, the sacra­ment of ba­by bap­tism be­came a very im­por­tant el­e­ment in the Catholic Church. Dur­ing a ba­by bap­tism, an in­tend­ed priest show­ers a few drops of sa­cred wa­ter over the child’s head or places a few drops on his or her fore­head. The ba­by bap­tism rite is ac­com­pa­nied by pre­cise read­ings of Scrip­ture, along with re­join­ders be­tween the priest, par­ents and con­gre­ga­tion. Bap­tism of a ba­by is sup­posed to set up a bond be­tween the child and God, lead­ing to a blessed life as a new crea­ture. The rit­u­al of bap­tism, in spite of of the form it takes, is a touch­able act of re­pen­tance which fre­quent­ly of­fers the ben­e­fi­cia­ry with a sense of re­newed pur­pose and ded­i­ca­tion.

Written by:  Mon­ish 

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