Churches that don't "baptize"* infants often dedicate babies. Churches that do baptize infants have a commitment ceremony such as confirmation at a reasoning age. Both kinds of churches have ceremonies in infancy and at coming of age because it makes sense. So I don't think the infant baptism is idolatry, just a mistaken theology.KingdomBuilder wrote:...
It boggles my mind really, infant baptism does.
I don't leave much wiggle room on this "issue". I see infant/ premature baptism as godless idolatry.
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*baptize literally means to immerse, which was the required practice imitating the Jewish mikvah. I'm not sure it should really apply to the practice of infant initiation anyway. But I'll use the word here in the conventional sense.