Yesterday, our daughter Claire Emmanuelle was baptized.  :-) I know that many babies usually get baptized a lot earlier than our daughter's 9 months. And the main reason for the delay was due to our church's serious stance on baptism — we, as parents, had to take several classes to prepare, to decide whether we wanted her to be baptized or not, and to finally become eligible. According to our faith (our denomination is Presbyterian, more specifically PCA), baptism actually does not automatically save, and there are two reasons for this. The first is that there is biblical evidence that at least one man went to heaven without being baptized: the thief who was crucified next to Jesus. The second, and more central reason,...