What is the origin of baby christening?
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your right it's not in the bible. the catholic church incorporated into their system, because it would be easier for pagan worshippers who sacrificed babies to come into the church.
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The origin of this custom has been much disputed, and many theories have been suggested, e.g. that it is a farcical commemoration of Christ being sent from Annas to Caiaphas, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate, the crucifixion having taken place about the 1st of April.\n\nWhat seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old New Year's day, the 25th of March, ended on the 1st of April. This view gains support from the fact that the exact counterpart of April-fooling is found to have been an immemorial custom in India. The festival of the spring equinox is there termed the feast of Holi, the last day of which is the 31st of March, upon which the chief amusement is the befooling of people by sending them on fruitless errands.\n\nIt has been plausibly suggested that Europe derived its April-fooling from the French [1]. They were the first nation to adopt the reformed Gregorian calendar, Charles IX in 1564 decreeing that the year should begin with the 1st of January. Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair butts for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April.\n\nHowever, it is unlikely that this explanation of April Fool's Day’s origin is correct. Well before 1582 when King Charles IX of France brought in the new Gregorian calendar, French and Dutch references from respectively 1508 and 1539 describe April Fool's Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April.\n\nThough the 1st of April appears to have been anciently observed in Great Britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gowks," the cuckoo being there, as it is in most lands, a term of contempt. In France the person befooled is known as poisson d'avril. This has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. A far more natural explanation would seem to be that the April fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught.\n\nThe Dutch history book-version is this: In 1572 The Netherlands were still ruled by the Spanish king Phillip II, son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Because the Dutch did not comply with this, they fought back. There was this band of roaming so-called freedom fighters, what we'd now call terrorists, calling themselves Geuzen, after the french geux which means beggars. They were sailing around the Northsea looking for Spanish ships to sink and after a while they got tired and needed some rest, but having no Dutch port to land in, they figured they'd capture one. So on April 1, 1572, they took this little coastal town called Den Briel. This event was also the start of the general civil rising against the Spanish in other cities in The Netherlands. This general phillip had send up called Alva was very upset and all but he couldn't do much. Bril is the Dutch word for glasses, so on April 1, 1572, Alva lost his glasses. Dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate April the first.
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Babies probably represent new beginnings, peacefulness, naivete, and so the people who came up with the statement originally was probably referring to the sense of being refreshed one gets upon awaking.
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The Story of Mother's Day\n\nThe earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England. \n*(For more information on Lent/Easter check out - Easter on the Net)\nDuring this time many of the England's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch. \n\n\nAs Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the "Mother Church" - the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration . People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.\n\nIn the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass ever year. \n\nIn 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.\n\nMs. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May. \n\nWhile many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.\n\n\nI hope this helps....\n\nDon
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Easter celebrates the raising of Jesus from the dead, this is the actual point at which the Christian Church began as Jesus appeared to his disciples:\n\nMatthew chapter 28 (TEV)\n\n16 The eleven disciples went to the hill in Galilee where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him, even though some of them doubted. 18 Jesus drew near and said to them, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 20 and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."\n\nSo as undoubtedly important as Christmas is marking the birth of our Lord, Easter is thefoundation of the Church, and our promise of everlasting life in Heaven.
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The Birth of the Bird? -\nBefore the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and they would therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won the major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!\nPLUCK YEW!" Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows for the longbow), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter.\nIt is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".
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There are a couple of spots to find parts of what you're looking for.\n\nhttp://www.belinda63.150m.com/infancy.htm\nhttp://www.noahhite.org/unpub/nicodemus.html\nhttp://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/index.htm\nhttp://www.gnosis.org/library/gs.htm\n\nThe last link is probably the first one to check out.\n\nGood luck and God bless.
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Dictionaries give the origin of "church" as the Anglo-Saxon root, circe. Circe was the goddess-daughter of Helios, the Sun-deity. The word circe is related to "circus," "circle," "circuit," and "circulate."\n\nCirce was originally a Greek goddess whose name was written and pronounced as Kirke. The word "church" is known in Scotland as kirk, in Germany as Kirche, and in Netherlands as kerk.
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A christening and a dedication are the same thing.  A child is introduced to God so to speak and the god parents are given their charge to help the child grow and to know the Lord.\n\nA baptism varies from religion to religion but it is the accpetance of Jesus Christ as your savior and you are baptised as a symbol of how your sins are now washed away in the blood of Jesus.\n\nSome religions have the baptism of infants so in that resepect it would be similar to a christening or dedication.\nYou will attend the regular Church service and there will come a point where the parents will bring the child and the godparents and allwill go up to the alrer and the pastor will say a few words and speak briefly withe the parents and the god parents, he will sprikle the child with water( this varies from religion to religion i.e some draw a cross with water on the child's head.  In some ceremonies the pastor/priest/? will introduce the child to the congregation and then everyone returns to their set.\n\nSome times more ignorant people will then leave the church when the poite and considerate thing to do is to remain for the rest of the morning service and then to leave. \n\nIf you have any questions you should call the parents and ask them but that should get you through
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Actually it started with a combination of spreding the Christian religion and ancient Roman beliefs.  Early Christians believed certain trees flowered unseasonably on Christmas Eve as homage to Jesus’ birth. This belief combined with the Roman practice of decorating their homes with greenery for the New Year formed the basis of our modern days Christmas.\n\nThe decorating of various structures and trees has been recorded in Europe from the 17th century on, but the first written account of a “Christmas tree” did not appear until 1605. According to John Matthew’s The Winter Solstice, an anonymous German citizen that year recorded trees being decorated with “roses cut out of many colored paper, apples, wafers, gold-foil, [and] sweets”. \nIt was more than 100 years later when Professor Karl Gottfried Kissling of the University of Wittenburg wrote of people adding candles for decorations and placing children’s wrapped branches around the bottom of the small indoor trees.\n\nEven though the practice was initially condemned by religious leaders, it spread from Germany to Finland through Norway and Denmark. In 1840, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of England endorsed the tradition by displaying their own ornately decorated tree at their palace. By the early 1900s, decorating the tree was as much a part of Christmas as Santa Claus and opening presents.
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Jesus was not baptized until he was a man. I thought the word "CHRISTIAN" meant follower of Christ.\n\nSorry, the baptism of children who are not at an age of accountability is a man made teaching contrary to Jesus example.\n\nThere is NO biblical record of a CHILD being baptized.
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Christianity officially began in 325 AD.  That is when the Roman Emperor Constantine made it legal.
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So many people baptizing their babies,Matt.28:19 GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DICIPLES...BAPTIZING THEM.ACTS 8:12 Men and women were baptize not babies..A person should know why they are being baptize..the meaning....BAPTISM IS FOR THOSE WHO EMBRACED HIS WORD HEARTILY (ACT 2:41)
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When Rome, probalby under Constantine, said hey these are pagan ceremonies lets take them and make they celebrate something chrisitan so he said spring - new life - yep Easter is now the celebration of The Ressurection of Christ!  And Christs birth he assigned to the winter solsitce.
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Caesar Constantine declared December 25th a Christian holiday in honour of the Roman god Saturn. It is absolutely nothing whatever to do with the birth of Christ. Christ was most likely born in September or October around 4 BC. Christ himself declared all festivals other than Easter as pagan. Jules Lecturer Australia.
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Here are the different religous rites to baptism as far as I know.  First, Baptism occurs only in the Christian based faiths. This is becuase it is an individual's belief that signifies the belief that Jesus rise from the dead to atone our sins.  Now, in the Catholic belief, baptism is done by the parents when their child is a baby and the Catholics believe that if the baby were to pass away, that baby would go to heaven due to the baptism.  As far as I can tell, Prebyterians and Lutherans also baptize as babies.  THe other branches of Christianity that I know about are Baptists and Pentecosts and most other branches of evangelical Christianity.  These branches baptize when the individual is old enough to understand what baptism is as seen in the Bible.  Which means that the person fully understands the significance of the baptism.  It can happen as young as 7 and as old as 90.  It all depends on the person.  The reason for this is because of Jesus' example.  He was not baptised as a baby and therefore, most branches of Christianity do not believe in baby baptism, they believe when the person is old enough to understand.  The rituals are simple:  Catholics, Presbys. and Lutherans, and also the Orthodox Chruches (Greek for example)  baptise with water in America, in Europe, Italy and Greece for example, they use olive oil.  I read about it in a National Geographic.  The evangelicals (Baptists, Pentecosts etc) all dunk the indivudual in water.  It can be done in a church, a lake, a river (which is common in Africa) and even a pool!  I hope this answers your question!
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Easter comes from a Babylonian celebration of Ishtar the goddess of fertility in mesopotamia. That is also where the bunny and eggs come from the idea of fertility new life etc... This was related to the Resurrection of Jesus when Consantine made Christianity the state religion in Rome (ca 300ad) and pagan holidays began being adopted by the church. So I don't really celebrate Easter I celebrate the Resurrection of my Lord. No baskets eggs or bunnies in my home. Just Jesus and He is all we need.