Should I be rebaptised?

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No. Rebaptism is not necessary and according to the Bible is actually a sin. God was there when you were baptized so spend your energy loving others. I got rebapatized for the same reason - infant baptism, but now I regret it

She hasn't been baptized yet. It is not rebaptism.

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Ahh, this is what I'm talking about. I feel the Holy Spirit yet I have not been (knowingly) baptised. It must be His as imo he has removed many sinful things from my life. On the other hand, I read baptism is a must do to receive it.. or is the baptism to wash away sins?

You are not required to be baptized to go to Heaven. That is by faith alone. But following your confession of faith, we are to be baptized. (Matt. 28:19) (Acts 8:12) (Acts 8:34-38)

Water baptism serves to give you a clear conscience before God and the cleansing from the filth of the world. (1 Peter 3:20-21) It has a part in your walk of salvation here.

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Ahh, this is what I'm talking about. I feel the Holy Spirit yet I have not been (knowingly) baptised. It must be His as imo he has removed many sinful things from my life. On the other hand, I read baptism is a must do to receive it.. or is the baptism to wash away sins?



Thank you. Your words always warm my heart. Blessings!! :)
At Ephesus they’d received water baptism but hadn’t received the Holy Ghost, how do we reconcile this?
 
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With like believers.. the churches here seem to think you are declaring belief in them not Jesus. They won't baptise unless you are joining THEIR church. Same with communion. Been denied in Lutheran and I'm baptised(infant) Lutheran. Wouldn't dare ask them for a baptism. Lol my mom comes to mind.

The Baptist church was very welcoming, but after 3 visits want you to sign a contract giving income info and a declaration of 10% tithe. A contract. I do not have a problem with the tithe, I have a problem with the fact that my 85 year old mother-in-law gets a visit once a month to get her money, when she can't attend anymore. We are to take care of widows and orphans. Anyways, I didn't even consider asking them about baptism.

Sorry to go on. I pray for peace of mind.
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Every church I've studied believes a person is baptized unto Christ, not unto that group of people. The desire to have a person be a member of their church is that of wanting to support each other.
 
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Ahh, this is what I'm talking about. I feel the Holy Spirit yet I have not been (knowingly) baptised. It must be His as imo he has removed many sinful things from my life. On the other hand, I read baptism is a must do to receive it.. or is the baptism to wash away sins?

Were you not baptized as an infant? Yes, then you have your answer. There is only one baptism and you had it anymore baptisms ae a waste of time and will do nothing for you.
 

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No, you have it backwards. She was not baptized as an infant as there is no such thing as infant baptism. She just got water poured over her. Baptism is real only if it is in accordance with God. It is not baptism just because someone or some church says it is.

Therefore she is not getting baptized again. She needs to be baptized.

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Nope, only one baptism. Infant baptism has been practiced since Biblical times and any other baptism is a waste of times. I know what you evangelicals think but it's dead wrong your ideas are man's teaching not from the Church
 
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Nope, only one baptism. Infant baptism has been practiced since Biblical times and any other baptism is a waste of times. I know what you evangelicals think but it's dead wrong your ideas are man's teaching not from the Church

Yup. Infant baptism is just getting a bath. No meaning to God whatsoever.

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No getting rebaptised is a dumb move and Infant Baptism is Scriptural regardless of your man made ideas

It is not rebaptism. It is being baptized. Where is infant baptism Scriptural?

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i baptize you with water, but One is coming Who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire.

and wadr even ritual water baptism is obv not for babies, who cannot rebound, not that most adult candidates grasp their role very well when they are getting baptized either I guess, may as well be infants too. Which makes ritual immersion the perfect vehicle I guess for the moment, as it turns out, as we are then deemed "babes in Christ" right?
 
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When th jailers whole household got baptized and many in the early Church. I know you will deny it because you glory in man made doctrine instead of what the Church has done from the very beginning

Fr. John Hainsworth. Is Infant Baptism Biblical?
I doubt children were counted in the household then, or at least they did not count them for anything else, and that's disregarding that whoever supposedly baptized them--which is not detailed at the time, I suspect bc this was not a ritual baptism anyway, but let's just say it's written so as to be applicable to either one--would have had to ignore the est'd convention, and Jews certainly do not suffer our fears of an afterlife, even if they do still love their babies I guess.
 
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so, this maybe won't serve you guys right now, but imo immediately baptized without any details, the jailer and his whole household who is never named, and then Paul is recorded as "baptizing" some other ppl later whose names occur only the one time, Crispus and Gaius, obv refs to Nero's father, and we are left to assume right after in 1Cor1 that the jailer was "Stephanus," (The meaning of Stephanas is "crown, garland") but when you put all of the elements together another story emerges, the one about the real baptisms I guess, wherein no people were wetted at all, but rather "immediately" immersed, by circumstance and choice I guess.

Paul is using the term "baptism" on another level than we are reading it, and this is only revealed when the irl nature of baptisms is understood and you then go back and read the passages looking for confirmation, and find it in the way sentences are carefully constructed a certain way, and names are used in a certain place where they are apropos of nothing, rather than in the pertinent passage, and other dialectic devices.

Iow the jailer was not named bc he is a type, and if they put "Stephanas" in there they would get killed by the Romans bc everyone would understand what it meant
 
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so, this maybe won't serve you guys right now, but imo immediately baptized without any details, the jailer and his whole household who is never named, and then Paul is recorded as "baptizing" some other ppl later whose names occur only the one time, Crispus and Gaius, obv refs to Nero's father, and we are left to assume right after in 1Cor1 that the jailer was "Stephanus," (The meaning of Stephanas is "crown, garland") but when you put all of the elements together another story emerges, the one about the real baptisms I guess, wherein no people were wetted at all, but rather "immediately" immersed, by circumstance and choice I guess.

Paul is using the term "baptism" on another level than we are reading it, and this is only revealed when the irl nature of baptisms is understood and you then go back and read the passages looking for confirmation, and find it in the way sentences are carefully constructed a certain way, and names are used in a certain place where they are apropos of nothing, rather than in the pertinent passage, and other dialectic devices.

Iow the jailer was not named bc he is a type, and if they put "Stephanas" in there they would get killed by the Romans bc everyone would understand what it meant
It seems as if Johns water baptism didn’t accomplish much in his disciples ?
Mark 2:18 KJV
[18] And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

Tecarta Bible
 

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All kidding aside, I remember being baptized as a child. My Grandmother was insistent, I had no idea at the time what it meant, but I do remember juicy fruit chewing gum was involved and a real eagerness to get home and watch the little rascals. I wish things were that simple now!
 

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In this time and age we are now all Gentiles! Those who believed are saved..
Simple !
 
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With like believers.. the churches here seem to think you are declaring belief in them not Jesus. They won't baptise unless you are joining THEIR church. Same with communion. Been denied in Lutheran and I'm baptised(infant) Lutheran. Wouldn't dare ask them for a baptism. Lol my mom comes to mind.

The Baptist church was very welcoming, but after 3 visits want you to sign a contract giving income info and a declaration of 10% tithe. A contract. I do not have a problem with the tithe, I have a problem with the fact that my 85 year old mother-in-law gets a visit once a month to get her money, when she can't attend anymore. We are to take care of widows and orphans. Anyways, I didn't even consider asking them about baptism.

Sorry to go on. I pray for peace of mind.
Thank you and many Blessings to you all.
Pardon me; why would they want your money when you say you have not yet made public confession in baptism?
 
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