“Are you going to rebaptize yourself? You were already baptized when you were a baby, I know because I have the photo! My grandmother said to me, confused, when I told her I was going to be baptized in a few weeks at my church. “Grandma, it’s different. It's my choice, it's my faith, my relationship with Jesus. I told him trying to stay calm. “Well, anyway, I don’t understand. Let me know when it's happening and I'll be there. » The topic of what type of baptism, believer or child, provides a better understanding of baptism itself has been discussed for some time now. Believer's baptism is when a person makes the choice to be baptized, while infant baptism is when a child is baptized by the choice of their parents. Believer's baptism is seen as a choice to follow and obey Jesus and infant baptism is seen as a child becoming part of the Church community and erasing original sin. In this article I will defend the view of believer's baptism as I think it gives a better understanding of what baptism is supposed to be.Arguments in favor of believer's baptismMy first argument for why I think baptism is The believer's best understanding of what baptism is supposed to be is that it is our response to God's grace. Ted Dorman quotes Menno Simon in A Faith for all Seasons: “Baptism is an expression of our response to God's grace, not a sign of that grace, and therefore must be administered only after believing in Christ. (2001) » My faith didn't grow until I decided to follow Jesus with my heart, I went through the motions but I didn't choose Jesus. Once I embraced my faith and experienced God's grace in so many ways, I knew the next step was to get baptized. I experienced God's grace when I chose the winter of...... middle of paper ...... does this go against the tradition of the Church. In Boyd and Eddy, the authors state that Church tradition cannot be relied upon because Scripture is the sole authority, sola scriptura. If we relied on Church tradition rather than Scripture, many things would be different today. Scripture is what we follow, not what traditions say we follow. If we still followed certain traditions of the Church, perhaps we could still live in a world where the Church is corrupt. Furthermore, infant baptism in the Church did not immediately become a tradition; it was not until at least the 2nd century that this became a tradition. Nothing starts as a tradition, it has to be done many times before it becomes a tradition, and so this “tradition” did not begin at the birth of the Church. A tradition that began with Jesus was believer's baptism, as he himself was baptized in the form of believer's baptism..