Believers Baptism
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- Tue Aug 12 2003

... Believers Baptism Believers Baptism is when a non-liturgical candidate accepts Jesus as his or her saviour and witnesses this to his or her local Church Congregation and then receives the spiritual benefits of Believers Baptism. This type of baptismal service is strictly for adults, or teenagers but nobody under the age of eleven or twelve. In a type of Free Church (where believers' baptism takes place) there is no infant baptism, however; babies may be dedicated but never baptised. In this dedication the child is blessed and people give thanks for his or her birth. The reason for this in the Free Churches was that infants were not able to understand the symbolism of Christianity whereas adults realised the spiritual journey they were about to go on and were able to agree with certain Christian beliefs and accept Jesus as their saviour. (They would be able to make their own mind up













