“Are you rebaptizing yourself? You were already baptized as a child, I know because I have the photo!” My grandmother was confused when I told her I would be baptized at my church in a few weeks. “Grandma, this is different. This is my choice, this is my faith, my relationship with Jesus." I told her trying to stay calm. “Well, whatever I don't understand. Just let me know when it is and I'll be there." The topic of what type of baptism, believer or newborn, gives a better understanding of baptism itself has been quietly discussed for some time now. Believer's baptism occurs when the person chooses to be baptized, while infant baptism occurs when an infant is baptized by choice of the parents. Believer's baptism is seen as a choice to follow and obey Jesus, while infant baptism is seen as a child becoming part of the church community and washing away original sin. In this article I will defend the believer's view of baptism as I think it gives a better understanding of what baptism is supposed to be. Arguments for Believer's Baptism My first argument for why I think believer's baptism offers the best understanding of what baptism is supposed to be is that it is our response to God's grace. Ted Dorman quotes Menno Simon in A Faith for all seasons “Baptism is an expression of our response to God's grace, not a sign of that grace, and must therefore be administered only after one believes in Christ. (2001)” My faith didn't grow until I decided to follow Jesus with my heart, I went through the motions but I wasn't choosing Jesus. Once I made my faith and experienced God's grace in so many ways, I knew that the next step would be to be baptized. I experience God's grace when I chose the winter of... middle of paper... goes against church tradition. In Boyd and Eddy, the authors state that church tradition cannot be relied upon because Scripture is the sole authority, sola scriptura. If we relied on Church tradition rather than Scripture, many things would be different now. Scripture is what we follow, not what traditions say we follow. If we still followed some church traditions, perhaps we could still live in a world where the church is corrupt. Furthermore, infant baptism in church did not immediately become tradition; it was only after the 2nd century that it became tradition. Nothing begins as a tradition, you have to do it several times before it becomes a tradition, and therefore this “tradition” did not begin when the church was born. One tradition that began with Jesus was believer's baptism, as he himself was baptized in the form of believer's baptism.