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Re-baptism

Many are baptized when young, or when they think the time is right only to find out years later they are now serious about their faith. I believe that one should be baptized when they decide to give their life to Christ. It is a public statement showing others that you believe and plan to live your life for Christ. I have seen many re-baptized. Nothing wrong with it in my eyes. I see it just like re-dedicating ones life for Christ.
 
Thanks Martin, so I take it these are also your personal thoughts on Re-Baptism?

Here are a couple more questions for everyone:
Should all infants be re-baptized then?
Also, if you were not fully immerse then you should be re-baptized also?

I was re-baptized a few years ago.......I felt the Lord calling me to do so and I acted on it. My mother on the other hand believes it to be a 'sin'.
I was just curious what others thought, good or bad.
 
On a personal note, my Christian faith and church do not believe in baptizing infants. We do dedicate them, to the Lord as infants, however. Our faith calls for baptism according to the Word of God and, according to His Word, that is complete immersion. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me. It's that simple. If you were to join a church/faith that believes in baptism by immersion but accepts your baptism, from another church/faith, re-baptism isn't necessary. It's a personal issue and like Mike said, "when they decide to give their life to Christ", baptism is a sign of faith and desire to follow Jesus Christ, as Lord and Savior of their life. There's nothing wrong with being re-baptized. Certainly it isn't a sin to do so. Better you should listen to God's Holy Spirit calling you to do or not to do 'whatever'. I place my faith in Christ and have little or no interest in following/obeying the rules and regulations of 'man'. Whatever God's Word tells me to do, that I do. Period!
 
I grew up in a Baptist Church here in Sydney. By way of information our Baptist Churches have no connection with US Baptists and so I am not exactly sure what the US Churches believe and practice.

These days, for geographical reasons, I attend a Presbyterian Church and they practice infant baptism. So, in a way, I have seen both sides of the subject.

My conviction is for believers baptism and it has already been adequately described above.

Two weeks ago there was a baptism of a two month old baby at my new Church. It was the first child baptism that I have ever seen.

Other than the sprinkling, it was identical to the Baptist service of baby dedication as Martin described above.

The Pastor went to great pains to make the point that there was no efficacy in infant baptism.

I have known people to be "re-baptised" after infant baptism as a statement of their new found faith and a desire to follow the Lord.

It is surely a good sign and in no way a sinful action.

Australian Baptists believe in full immersion but the real issue is always in a persons heart and will and not in the mode of baptism as far as I can see.

Others my see it a bit differently, but collectively we all see "everything" a bit differently, so understanding and Christian love is required.

The Lord knows those that are His and, one day, we will be surprised to discover how very different we all are in our understanding of the faith, but we're still the Lords.
 
when Jesus became my own personal Savior, I was re-baptized at the age of 51 when I was going through a very difficult divorce! The second baptism was real and I knew the difference from it and the first one! The Bible does say do your first works over, if we have sinned and are backslidden! If possible, we must be baptized after true repentance and God knows our hearts and what our intentions were or are! I am totally different in my life than what I was at 13 but still believed in Jesus but didn't have a personal relationship with Him like I do now.....sure makes a difference in my life and I also know it does others by believing in Jesus and bearing good fruit for Him by the way we treat others....even those who persecute us, for they don't know better until they have Jesus in their lives! No, I don't think re-baptism is a sin...I believe it is a must when we truly believe and/or have backslidden and gone back to sinning against God! :angel: Ma Betty
 
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Where in the bible she reads it a sin. Don't take my lost as being hard on your mom just wanted to know where she gets that from
Greg
 
Not so much in the Bible but she believes that it's a 'sin' or slap in the face to the Catholic Church, especially if it is a different religion.
 
my granddaughter to my churches (she attended a Catholic school and received Confirmation...but isn't anything now but a sinner) that she wasn't supposed to attend any church but Catholic....this isn't being set free in Christ Jesus to be bound my man's laws! Our faith and salvation is in Jesus and not the church itself! May God lead her to the truth of the Bible, as told by Jesus and God's prophets of old! Amen! :angel: Ma Betty
 
If one studies believer's baptism in the New Testament, they'll find that there's no record of infant baptism. Infant baptism is just getting a baby wet. That little one can in no way understand what is going on. Also, the Catholic church stance on the Old and New Testaments is that they are not actually the Word of God. According to the Catholic church they're just Holy Scriptures. If they were the actual words of the Living God, then the Catholic church couldn't apply the extra-biblical doctrines that it does. These are doctrines such as the infallibility of the Pope in church matters, Assumption of Mary, Purgatory and such. I hope that I'm not offending anyone here. And you're right, C. Nyal, it's a heart thing. The thief on the cross next to Jesus was probably never baptised. If he had been baptised before meeting Jesus on the cross, it sure wasn't a believer's baptism. Jesus looked into his heart and called him covered by the Blood. Praise His Holy Name. Prince of Peace, Rose of Sharon, Good Shepherd, Bright and Morning Star, Friend. What a Friend we have in Jesus! ><>
 
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