"Baptism is like a wedding ring: both [a wedding ring and baptism] symbolize transactions. A wedding ring symbolizes marriage, just as baptism symbolizes salvation. However, wearing a wedding ring does not make you married any more than being baptized makes you saved." A small six-year-old child can wear her mother’s wedding ring, but we know that she’s too young to be married. And in the same way, a person can be baptized without having accepted Jesus Christ into his or her heart.