Baptism

the prayer of faith on behalf of the child "I renounce Evil and accept Christ".
Confirmation worked well in a churched society. You had something to
confirm then, but now what do we have to confirm?. Today, in the midst of
emphasis on individual freedom and individual salvation, children are not
baptized, they are totally free and are given only a remote random chance of
hearing the gospel and so to receive salvation. Why should the children pray
or read the word when they are not part of the covenant community?. In that
thought pattern of the modern society, the children must be given every
opportunity to study all religion without any bias. Recent rulings of the
Supreme Court of United States of America declares that. We should not
grumble when the world insist on that. Your children do not belong to your
church or faith. They belong to the nation – of the worldly Kingdom. Dare to
take that stand as a believer?
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"Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a
servant, though he be lord of all, but is under tutors and governors, until the
time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in
bondage under the elements of the world: but when the fullness of the time
was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to
redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of
sons" (Gal. 4:1-6).
The child before receiving his power to act as independent person is still a
heir but is being treated as a servant as under the Old Covenant of Law. When
the fullness of time comes they will receive the full adoption.
When a family bring the child to the baptism he is claiming in faith this
covenant for the child. You express your faith in doing it. It is the visible
action corresponding to the faith. If a faith does not precede with
corresponding action it is not true faith. Even if it does not bring any good to
the child, it is every parent's duty to baptize the child in faith. Faith is the
assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. If you hope
for the salvation of your children, bring them in that faith that they will be
saved by grace. It is a bold statement of the faith of the parents. That is why
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