SC - OT - Baptist Christening

[Michael Newton]

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From: "Philip & Susan Troy" <troy at asan.com>
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Subject: SC - OT - Baptist Christening


> RichSCA at aol.com wrote:
>
>
> Yeah, I'm sure. I even checked with my lady wife, who checked with the
> child's parents. If it was a hallucination, it was mass hallucination.
> Now what I'm not certain of is how mainstream this nominally Baptist
> Church was, with its Bishop, etc. I gather this is not common among the
> larger Baptist congregations. One of the images burned forever in my
> memory is the sight of a sign above a storefront church in Brooklyn as
> we used to pass it on the elevated "J" train, when I was a kid. It read,
> "The Glorious Church of the Pentecostal Holiness of God in Jesus Christ,
> Incorporated, Bishop W.L. Peebles, Pastor". That was not identified as a
> Baptist Church, but the church that held the christening in question
> reminded me of that experience, for all that it _was_ identified as a
> Baptist Church.

Baptist as a rule don't have Bishops, in fact that is one of the things that
make Baptist
different from other Protestants, No Bishops, Creeds, etc. Baptist also
don't christen or Baptize Babies,
Methodists who sometimes resemble Baptist in most things do Baptize babies.
I don't know of any Baptist church that would christen a Baby, Dedication to
God is another thing they do dedicate but there is no Baptism involved in
dedication. Baptizing is exclusively for beleivers.

Thorbjorn
Raised Baptist
Going to a Lutheran Church cause no Baptist are close-by.
Lutherans do Baptize infants.