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Dear
Gramps, Why wasn’t the Savior baptized when He was eight?
Since we are to follow His example this is confusing. It is my
understanding that baptism was around even before the Savior’s time.
If it was, then at what age were people baptized? Just wondering.
Thanks. Jean, from Georgia |
Dear
Jean,
Jesus
was to be baptized by John, and they were the same age. Should Jesus at age
eight have been baptized by another eight-year-old? The law is not that we
should be baptized when eight years old, but that the age of eight is the
minimum age at which we should be baptized. Rather than focusing on the example
of chronology, we should follow the Savior in the example of the kind of life he
lived.
Gramps