Taking a baby out of an oxygen tent doesn’t sound like a good idea. The fear that something might happen before the baby was baptized very well could have led to serious complications or death. This might even be regarded as child endangerment under some circumstances, and not without justification.
As I’ve mentioned before, I have family of varying denominational beliefs; some practice infant baptism, some don’t. I cannot imagine any of those who do, snatching a newborn out of what sounds like an ICU for baptism.
It comes across as being rather hysterical and dangerous, quite honestly, right up there with snake handling by holy rollers in some backwoods sect of a church.
I’ve come down on the side of believer’s baptism, personally, and understand that babies and children of believers, prior to their own understanding and ability to accept salvation, are regarded as being of the house of a believer, and therefore not in danger.
I’ve regarded infant baptism up to this point as harmless symbolism demonstrating intent to raise the child in a proper, Christian manner, and so haven’t gotten all that worked up about pro or con.
This gives me serious pause, however. It was a fortunate thing that the baby was not harmed.
My baby was turning blue and still breathing and coughing. I didn’t take the kind of chance you are speaking of. The nurses were right into the room to get him back into the oxygen tent and show me why he needed surgery since he had inhaled an object.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion in these United States of America. There are others who believe very differently: http://thedaughterofzion.wordpress.com/tag/john-wilde-webber/
Their trust will be either verified or proven wrong in eternity.
On the other had, on a completely objective level we have this:
Several things can be affirmed from the Holy Scriptures:
1) All are born into sin and are condemned already. (John 3:18, 36, and others)
2) The eternal Son of God came into the world to save sinners, because God loved them despite their sin. (John 3:16, and others)
2) Faith in Jesus Christ the Savior saves. (the same John 3:18, 36, and many others)
3) Baptism is commanded by God for all. (Matthew 28:18ff and Mark 16:16, and others)
4) Faith is not the act of man but the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8-9, and others)
5) Ergo baptism and faith must somehow be connected in the mind and will of God, otherwise God contradicts Himself in His word.