Yes, Billy Graham and his wife Ruth were raised as Presbyterians and were baptized as infants. However, in Graham's own autobiography, he says in 1934 (age 16) after attending Dr. Mordecai Ham’s revival meetings in Charlotte, NC, was the night he came to Christ. Don't you wonder what changed in his heart that his last child was NOT baptized as an infant?
The following quote is from an article written in October of 1961, after Graham gave an interview to Lutheran clergyman Wilfred Brockelman, who was then the associate editor of The Lutheran Standard:
Like I said, Southern Baptists do not believe in the baptism of infants but that such an act of obedience and personal testimony of faith is reserved for those who are at an age to understand what they are doing.
I'm sensing some animosity in your comments on a thread that is a positive article about the late Billy Graham. What is your intention for doing this?
“I’m sensing some animosity in your comments on a thread that is a positive article about the late Billy Graham. What is your intention for doing this?”
After Billy Graham became a Baptist and had been preaching for years his children were being baptised as infants. Ned was born in 1957 and was baptised as a teenager, who knows for what reason.
I have no animosity. What I sense is you pretending that Billy Graham was as opposed to the Catholic Church as you are.. What made Billy Graham different that today’s evangelicals is he NEVER put down the Catholic Church and blabbed away about Catholicism being a false religion. When he asked people to come down during the altar call he would often call out Christian faiths by their name by saying “I don’t care what faith you might be, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic”, etc. Come and give your heart to Christ, ask him to come into your life,make him your personal savior, then go back to your churches and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ”
Billy Graham was despised by the fire and brimstone evangelicals because he did exactly what I just said. And Billy Graham went to church. It would have never entered his mind to tell people they didn’t need to go to church,but rather sit on their rumps and watch him on TV. He was also despised by countless evageicals because of his relationship with the Catholic Church.
Billy Graham on the death of Pope John Paul 2. The exact same words can now be said about the Reverend Billy Graham,
“Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years. His extraordinary gifts, his strong Catholic faith, and his experience of human tyranny and suffering in his native Poland all shaped him, and yet he was respected by men and women from every conceivable background across the world. He was truly one of those rare individuals whose legacy will endure long after he has gone.