The Sacrament of Baptism is a spiritual birth, entry into the Church, and the beginning of spiritual life. As you know, life does not end with birth, but only begins, therefore, without teaching spiritual life, Baptizing is unlikely to be saving. If we spend many years studying for a short earthly journey, then knowing how to save ourselves in eternal life is more important.
The purposes of Baptizing should not be immediate and mercantile – protection from misfortune, illness, earthly well-being; the goal should be one – the desire to be in communication with the Heavenly Father (the inexhaustible Source of goodness), to live according to the will of the Creator in His grace.
The purpose of creating any object is what it was created for. God created the Human. For what? For eternal love and eternal happiness. Therefore, we can say that the meaning of life is love. Love for God is manifested in the desire to fulfill His commandments, a condition for a happy life: “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). The source of love for man is love for God.
Attempts to seek eternal happiness outside of God (even for good purposes: children, charity, creativity) are a dead end because only God is eternal and always faithful.
The conditions for the Baptism of an adult are faith and repentance.
Faith is not something uncertain, we must know: in whom we believe, how to live by faith, and what are the right fruits of faith. Babies are baptized according to the faith of their parents and godparents (godfathers). Godparents (godfather and godmother) must be baptized in the Orthodox faith and true Christians