"In the Roman Catholic, there are seven sacraments which Christ instituted and entrusted to the Church. Sacraments are rituals that Catholics see as signs of God's presence and effective channels of God's grace to all those who receive them with the proper disposition.

The sevenfold list of sacraments is often organized into those of:

Sacraments of Initiation (into the Church, the body of Christ):

• Baptism

• Confirmation

• the Eucharist

Sacraments of Healing:

• Penance

• Anointing of the Sick

Sacraments at the service of communion and the mission of the faithful:

• Holy Orders

• Matrimony"²⁸

I never really understood these seven sacraments nor appreciated them until the time I went on this Path. To me, they were just meaningless rituals. As God explained certain sacraments, I realized that these sacraments are part and parcel of how He achieves salvation for us.

“The doctrine of the sacraments is the doctrine of the second part of God's way of salvation to us. It deals with the holy signs which Christ instituted as the vehicles of his grace."²⁹.”

The Sacrament of Baptism

“ Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα baptisma; see below) is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally. The canonical Gospels report that Jesus was baptized—a historical event to which a high degree of certainty can be assigned. Baptism has been called a holy sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ. In some denominations, baptism is also called christening, but for others the word "christening" is reserved for the baptism of infants. Baptism has also given its name to the Baptist churches and denominations, they being called Baptism as a whole.

The usual form of baptism among the earliest Christians was for the candidate to be immersed, either totally (submerged completely under the water) or partially (standing or kneeling in water while water was poured on him or her). While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body. Other common forms of baptism now in use include pouring water three times on the forehead, a method called affusion.”³⁰

Question: Why did you institutionalize church baptism?

God’s answer:

Meaning: Church Baptism is an acceptance to be a believer of Christ.