With the church throughout history, we affirm that God is the Creator of all that exists, and the creator of each human life. The Christian Church also has always affirmed that because God is the Creator of all things, all life belongs to him. In confessing our faith, Christians cannot properly claim that our bodies are our own property, to do with as we choose. Neither our own bodies nor our unborn children belong to us, according to the Christian faith. The Christian Church emphasizes that we are not our own by its sacrament of baptism.
Baptism is never a private act, and it never concerns only the individual being baptized.
Baptism is the church's family affair, in which we welcome believers and their children into the Christian community as brothers and sisters of Christ and children of our heavenly Father. The Apostle Paul spoke of our belonging to God. That is, we were bought with the redemption price of the death of Christ on the cross. By his death and resurrection, Christ has freed us from our bondage to sin and death, and we are warned not to become captive again to the destroying, deadly ways of the world. We are no longer earthbound victims of circumstances, but overcomers by his grace.