by RULES & REGULATIONS 38 Replies latest watchtower bible
Billy said:
In reality, it all cheapens the meaning of things like "dedication" and "ordained minister." They may as well start infant baptism.
I hated when young children were called ''ministers.'' There was nothing worse than seeing a young baptized boy giving a talk in the Ministry School looking at the audience while a baptized sister had to pretend she was conducting a study or talking to a householder. She could never face the audience.
Well, comparing to "the world" as the Dubs say, 8 or 9 isn't so young as compared to 2 or 3 months old infants being baptized, as they like to bring up with their smug attitude. That is true, but and 8 or 11 year old isn't old enough to sign a contract, so basically they just signed a contract with Jah to be his faithful servant when they obviously don't have the full understanding of what that includes.
I was baptized for that reason in the summer of 1974 at a young age of 13.
I was also baptized at ripe age of 13 in the spring of 1973
( same location perhaps ;).
They want to be able to usurp the authority of parents.
Absolutely!! Watchtower wants to control young and old. Once I got baptized, then I started to get groomed for the pioneer work. The push to pioneer came more from other members of the congregation than from my own parents.
and when they're that age, they most likely wont have any knowledge of what a commercialized fraud the WTS. organization is.
and when they're that age, they most likely wont have any knowledge of what a commercialized fraud the WTS. organization is.
It took me 40 years to finally realize that the WTBTS is just a real estate and book printing corporation.
ShirleyW said:
so basically they just signed a contract with Jah to be his faithful servant when they obviously don't have the full understanding of what that includes.
The bait and switch! Pretend that they will serve Jehovah when in reality you will serve a human corporation whose whole objective is to sell magazines and books.
insidetheKH 3 hours ago
@Rules you forget that at the time that Jesus walked the earth John the Baptist just started with baptising people.
furthermore billions of people (in other denominations that consider themselves christian) are baptised right after they are born
Anyway the main reason is,... WHY NOT baptise Teens? We let them make career and education choices that influence them the rest of their lifes at that age so why not the choice to serve Jehovah?
there are biblical examples of young people who make a stand for Jehovah,.. Samuel did, David did,.. Jesus did, to name a few
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/284627/children-being-baptised-aid-book-v-insight-book
"The whole early period knows baptism only of adults"
Paragraph 1, Page 188
Either you follow the first-century or you don't.
insidetheKH said: ...you forget that at the time that Jesus walked the earth John the Baptist just started with baptising people.
What does that have to do with anything? Scriptural answer please.
furthermore billions of people (in other denominations that consider themselves christian) are baptised right after they are born
Again, how is that relevant? Watchtower's baptism of children is much closer to the infant baptisms of the Catholic Church than to the fully adult baptisms of the Bible.
Anyway the main reason is,... WHY NOT baptise Teens? We let them make career and education choices that influence them the rest of their lifes at that age so why not the choice to serve Jehovah?
Why not? Because it's not Bible based, and JWs claim to follow the Bible to the letter. Don't overlook the good responses of previous posters which show that career and education choices are not nearly as heavy as the choice to get baptised.
there are biblical examples of young people who make a stand for Jehovah,.. Samuel did, David did,.. Jesus did, to name a few
Yes, they "made a stand for Jehovah," but making a stand wasn't the question, getting baptised was. Jesus may have made a stand at a young age, but he was baptised when he was 30.
It appears you have answered the question about child baptism with what makes sense to JWs, which is meaningless since many things have been proved wrong that made sense to them in the past.
Remember an admission that Watchtower has had to make regarding things that made sense at the time but turned out to be wrong.
