What made you choose your faith (Lutheran, presbyterian, united church, catholicism) instead of other Christ church?
And what is the church you both go?
What is believer baptism as opposed to regular baptism.Independent Bible based church that practises believer's baptism.
What is believer baptism as opposed to regular baptism.
What age to they get baptism?Acts 2:41.
(The sprinking of infants is not in the Bible.)
What age to they get baptism?
I was 7 when I received the catholic one. My dad wanted me to be conscious. Ideally it would have been at 12 but my parents divorced and my mom wanted me to have the sacrament with the other kids.
In Acts 2:41 no age is specified, but public testimony through baptism (which means immerse) was done by those who believed, that is, consciously and actively, who 'gladly received his word'.
Lysander, I think it's pretty funny that people would say catholic us not the real thing since it's started by them. It's funny how some people think they know better just cos one faith talk more to then than an other.
In the end for me, what matters is that I follow the word of Jesus and God as best I can.
Lysander, I think it's pretty funny that people would say catholic us not the real thing since it's started by them. It's funny how some people think they know better just cos one faith talk more to then than an other.
In the end for me, what matters is that I follow the word of Jesus and God as best I can.
Actually there is no linear record with the popes of Rome that goes all the way back to Christ. What there is that has abided independently of human orndination is 'the faith once delivered' (Jude 3), believers being 'built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone' (Ephesians 2:20).
You don't believe St. Peter was the first pope?
'Upon this rock' referred to Peter's great declaration of Christ's deity, on which the church's doctrine was founded. Matthew 16:16 (It wasn't a charter for a group of men, for whom there is no historical record anyway until many years afterwards, to give themselves the unchallenged right to keep adding and interpreting doctrine as they alone saw fit.)
Reading further on in Matthew 16:18, he referred to Peter (formerly Simon) as "Petrus" (Peter--meaning rock), and expressed in Matthew 16:19 that in His physical absence, Peter was his vicar.