Driver's license = 16 years old with parent signature
Marriage = 18 years old (16 with parents permission)
Job = 15 to 17 with special government documents, 18 without parent permission
Sign a contract or a lease--21 with co-signer
Rent a car = 25 years old
I noticed the age, 10 years....certainly not ready to drive, marry, get a full-time job, sign a lease or contract, rent a car...certainly not acts as important or serious as making a lifelong commitment to God.
*** w89 1/15 p. 18 par. 13 How Baptism Can Save Us ***Zion’s Watch Tower of July 1, 1894, said: "To all the dear children and young people who have given their hearts to God, and who are trying daily to follow Jesus, the WATCH TOWER sends its greeting. We know some of the very little ones who love Jesus, and who are not ashamed to stand up for Jesus among other children who do not love him or try to please him; and who are brave and true to God, even when laughed at and thought peculiar by their schoolmates to whom they tell the good news of the kingdom. And we are rejoiced to see some young people, who have bravely renounced the world and its ambitions and pleasures, among the most faithful of those who have [dedicated] their lives to the Lord. Some of our office helpers, as well as many of the successful colporteurs, are still young in years." Even if you are still young, why not talk to your parents about dedication to Jehovah God?
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g78 8/8 p. 30 Watching the World ***‘Close to Infant Baptism’ ♦
The practice of some Southern Baptist churches to baptize very young children has come under fire. Richard D. Patton, chairman of the Southern Baptist Historical Commission, has declared that baptizing young children seems to "put us perilously close to the practice of infant baptism." He indicated that 10 percent of the baptisms during 1976 were of children under the age of eight.
(jw children younger than 8 have been baptized....a 6 year old girl at a convention in Chicago a few years ago)
*** w06 4/1 p. 13 Determined to Serve Jehovah ***In 1948, I attended the district convention held near my grandmother’s home, where I was spending my summer vacation. A friend of mine was to be baptized at that convention, and he invited me to do the same. I told him that I did not bring any swimming trunks, but he suggested that after he was baptized, I could use his. I agreed and was baptized on June 27, 1948, when I was 13 years old
*** w70 11/1 p. 669 "Of Course You Can, Kayoko. I Did!"***A young man with whom I had conducted a Bible study during his school years introduced his twelve-year-old daughter who was being baptized that day in symbol of her dedication of her life to God
*** g76 10/22 p. 20 Practical Christianity Featured at "Sacred Service" Assemblies ***In the U.S. 10,253 were immersed at the assemblies. But, all together, 27,717 have been baptized at the "Sacred Service" assemblies from which reports have thus far been received. It is young people especially who are accepting Bible truths, as evidenced by a survey at one assembly which revealed that 70 percent of those baptized were between eleven and thirty years of age.
*** w92 10/1 p. 22 ‘Should I Get Baptized?’ ***Ayumi got baptized when she was ten years old. She wanted to serve Jehovah because she really came to love him
*** w88 3/15 p. 15 par. 21 Trust in Jehovah Leads to Dedication and Baptism ***Why, attending the Pioneer Service School in the Bahamas recently was a ten-year-old baptized girl, the daughter of two full-time ministers
*** w96 2/1 p. 32 Irina’s Favorite Songbook ***NOT long ago, Irina, a nine-year-old girl from Sofia, Bulgaria, was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
*** w57 10/15 p. 618 High Lights of 1957 District Assemblies ***It is known that Jehovah’s witnesses do not believe in infant baptism, it being without Scriptural support. But does an eight-year-old girl understand enough to be baptized? A newspaper reporter doubted it until he questioned the lass, who ably answered all his questions, and that directly from her Bible.
*** w56 3/1 p. 155 The "Triumphant Kingdom" Assemblies of 1955 ***. Nearby in a building equipped with warm-water tanks and large bathtubs the infirm, invalid and crippled candidates were taken care of. Among all those baptized the youngest was a seven-year-old boy, the oldest an eighty-seven-year-old woman.
