Lutheran Baptism PSA

[Jerome]

Church of Norway tries to make baptism trendy:

http://www.aftenbladet.no/meninger/...ar-reklamefilm-for-kristelig-dap-3546284.html

 

[Jerome]

Vicar wants farting baptism baby ad ban

http://www.thelocal.no/20141028/norway-vicar-wants-burping-baptism-baby-ad-ban

The offending advert was aired to encourage more people to baptise their children.

Helge Helgesen, a vicar from Stavanger in Norway, has demanded the advertisement be banned.

 

[Walter]

Less than 3% of the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Norway attend services on Sunday. Many of the churches are not even open except for Christmas, Easter, baptisms and confirmations. I doubt this ad is having much effect on the people who view it. Sounds like desperate measures to try to interest people in the Church of Norway. The Lutheran churches of Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are in about the same shape. Most closed except for 'special holidays'. Been that way for years. Polls asking about belief in God, the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in life after death or church attendance consistently bear this out. Scandinavians have, for the most part, markedly irreligious societies.

 

[Jerome]

Don't we have a member from Norway? Maybe he could translate the commercial for us. . .

 

[Noah Hirsch]

Lutherans believe in baptismal regeneration. It is a version of baptismal regeneration distinct from Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, but it is still baptismal regeneration. Even though, I do not believe in infant baptism or not sprinkling counts as baptism, yet my main problem with the Lutheran view of baptism is their doctrine of baptismal regeneration.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

This zombie thread from 2014 is closed.