In Tess of the d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Urbervilles, the main character, Tess, gave birth to a baby boy, who then grew sick only days later. Tess is young, still in her mid teens. She was also brought up Christian.<\/p>\n
When she realized her son was going to die, she grew worried because he had never been baptized. She ended up baptizing him herself, using passages from the Bible as her text.<\/p>\n
After I read it, I wondered if this had been an actual event, I wonder what God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction would have been.<\/p>\n
Would he view it as a gross error (Moro. 8:6)? Would he have seen her action as a mockery toward him (Moro 8:9)? Would he have viewed her as being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Moro. 8:14)? Would he remove her faith and charity and cut her off (Moro. 8:14)? Would he consider her to be awfully wicked (Moro. 8:15)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"