All churches that practise Christianity have a baptismal tradition. Christians employ this method to purify themselves; in biblical writings, it is referred to as a ceremony of renewal. The baptism water represents the believer's death via immersion of his old, sin-filled life and his birth into a divine and eternal realm. Baptism is, in other words, the sacrament of faith in Jesus Christ through which the Christian is saved, cleansed from sin, and adopted as a child of God. Evangelical Christianity, which accepts this viewpoint, typically limited baptism to adults only. The adult must…