Is the Mormon baptism by proxy practice much different from infant baptism?

[minionofmidas]

Infant baptism strikes me as worse.

[minionofmidas]

Infant baptism strikes me as worse.

So would you encourage anyone who remains Christian who was baptized as a baby to be rebaptized? I guess you'd approve of me "invalidating" my infant baptism by getting rebaptized in a few weeks.

"Invalidating" Baptism? Dude, it's a Sacrament. Either that  charade your parents went through when they had you baptized as an infant was not a Sacrament at all but a mockery of one (and thus probably blasphemous to boot; not consciously of course, not saying that at all), and then there is no reason to bother with invalidating though you do need to be rebaptized; or it's valid anyways and you can't invalidate it (though I guess you could still be rebaptized just for, you know, yourself and the world, rather than God).

While I've heard of errors of ritual "invalidating" a Sacrament, I've never heard of some kind of "invalidating ceremony". That seems to be an innovation to Christianity quite as strange and disturbing as anything the Mormons come up with.

[minionofmidas]

Protestant churches that don't baptize babies still have a dedication ceremony for them, mine is doing it the same day I'm being baptized. So the view is that infant baptism is not an actual baptism, just equivalent to a dedication except using water. People who were baptized as babies therefore were merely only dedicated and can grow up and decide to be baptized if they wish (like I am), and if they aren't they baptized again it's not a big deal since baptism is only symbolic in most's view and not required for salvation (unless you're talking to some very legalistic cult-like groups and some extreme Pentecostal sects even other Pentecostals consider crazy.)

And even then there'd be no issue with the double Baptism - one's valid and the other's just some unnecessary-but-not-harmful kind of dedication / confirmation ceremony.

So what is this thing you're doing then before getting - oh. Just scrolled down and noticed that I read that wrong. "By" getting rebaptized. Alright. Objection dropped. Have your Baptism for real this time. Like I care.