Brianna the "baptism girl" of the hour
Patty, Steve, Brianna & Ali
Brianna and Steve prepared to enter the font
Nora and Laura happy to celebrate the happy day.The Boyer family gathered together this Saturday afternoon to celebrate the baptism and confirmation of Brianna. It was a wonderful event, one of the biggest ones we can make in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Our doctrine states that little children do not need to be baptized until they reach the age of accountability, which is eight years of age, as they are redeemed through the mercy of Jesus Christ. Moroni 8:8. Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them; and the law of circumcision is done away in me...12. But little children are alive in Christ, even from the foundation of the world; if not so, God is a partial God, and also a changeable God, and a respecter to persons; for how many little children have died without baptism!... 13. Wherefore, if little children could not be saved without baptism, these must have gone to an endless hell... 14. Behold I say unto you, that he that supposeth that little children need baptism is in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; for he hath neither faith, hope, nor charity; wherefore, should he be cut off while in the thought, he must go down to hell... 15. For awful is the wickedness to suppose that God saveth one child because of baptism, and the other must perish because he hath no baptism...20. And he that saith that little children need baptism denieth the mercies of Christ, and setteth at naught the atonement of him and the power of his redemption... 22. For behold that all little children are alive in Christ, and also all they that are without the law. For the power of redemption cometh on all them that have no law; wherefore, he that is not condemned, or he that is under no condemnation, cannot repent; and unto such baptism availeth nothing—
