Baptism

My uncle was Catholic and he got re-baptized to marry my aunt who is Orthodox. One of my class mates was Orthodox she's getting re-baptized to become Lutheran this summer.
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If you consider your previous religion false, then the ritual means nothing to you. If you don't, then why are you changing religions?

Well I remember the Bible mentioning how people of other religions were baptized. I suppose I could look for verses/chapters if that makes any difference.

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There is nothing in the Bible that speaks against rebaptism.
Just for the record...

Yeah it doesn't, but I think it's just... tradition that people only recieve it once. I'm not entirely sure.

But people are baptized multiple times every day. We aren't speaking hypothetically, it happens.

Like I said before, are you sure it's called baptism when they join a new Church? And, there are other religions where you aren't baptized until later in life, so they might have been raised in one religion, but never got baptized, so they would only be getting baptized once.

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Like I said before, are you sure it's called baptism when they join a new Church? .

Yeah, and you don't even have to be joining a new church. Rebaptism is practiced in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Isn't their rebaptism in the bible? Acts 19?

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Brianna! 7 things.:

Like I said before, are you sure it's called baptism when they join a new Church? .

Yeah, and you don't even have to be joining a new church. Rebaptism is practiced in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Isn't their rebaptism in the bible? Acts 19?

Hm, I've never heard of anyone getting rebaptized. Is that the only church that practices it?

If you're not joining a new church, wouldn't it be Confirmation?

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Brianna! 7 things.:

Like I said before, are you sure it's called baptism when they join a new Church? .

Yeah, and you don't even have to be joining a new church. Rebaptism is practiced in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Isn't their rebaptism in the bible? Acts 19?

Hm, I've never heard of anyone getting rebaptized. Is that the only church that practices it?

If you're not joining a new church, wouldn't it be Confirmation?

I asked my friend Libby.
She's practicing LDS.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

The only time someone is rebaptised is if he or she was previously a member and was excommunicated.

After baptism one is confirmed a member of the Church and receives the gift of the Holy Ghost by those holding Priesthood authority.

It looks like LDS is the only religion that practices rebaptism.

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It looks like LDS is the only religion that practices rebaptism.

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My uncle was Catholic and he got re-baptized to marry my aunt who is Orthodox. One of my class mates was Orthodox she's getting re-baptized to become Lutheran this summer.

Its really common when you convert religions.

I don't know how deep any of you want to look into this, but I was searching for churches that allowed rebaptism, and first, the only one I found [it was only like a two minute search so it wasn't very thorough] was LDS. I also found this. You might just want to scroll down and read the conclusion, it's from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, I don't know if it's specific to a religion or not, it was just one of the first things I found...

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it's from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, I don't know if it's specific to a religion or not

Well if its from a Christian library... :shifty

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it's from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, I don't know if it's specific to a religion or not

Well if its from a Christian library... :shifty

:XD I mean I don't know if it's specific to just Catholics, or just Protestant, or whatever.

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So, I'm guessing that you could get baptized as many times as you want,

In my religion, you can only recieve the sacrament of baptism once.

Like I said, that's in the Baptist denomination.

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So, I'm guessing that you could get baptized as many times as you want,

In my religion, you can only recieve the sacrament of baptism once.

Like I said, that's in the Baptist denomination.

I'm Catholic. :shifty

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Isn't their rebaptism in the bible? Acts 19?

In a way. But, in all honesty, I wouldn't call it rebaptism. The 2 baptisms spoken of in that passage were for different meanings- one took place before Jesus' crucifixion, and one took place after. (This is coming from an NIV btw)
Side note- I find nothing wrong with rebaptism.

Personally, I like the idea of baptism. I was baptized and I am a Christian. (However, I don't think it forces a child into a religion.) I don't mean to point out the obvious, but to me, it's a big symbol. I think people are looking too much at it from a concrete stance. Baptism to me is more of an idea than a physical thing. But, in all honesty, it's much easier to express something physical, rather than something mental.

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He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16

It's not just water the same way the Holy Bread and Wine are not just bread and wine.

i agree with you.
Jesus was baptized.
and we are supposed to be like Him, so we all should be baptized.

I'm a new found Church of Christ.
I used to be Baptist. and they believe that baptism isn't necessary. They say that the theif on the cross wasn't baptized, and Jesus said that He would see the theif in Heaven with him.

But that was before Jesus died, so that meant that they still went by the Old Testiment. And since we have the New Testiment to follow what Jesus did, we should all be baptized to be able to enter Heaven.

thank you that is my opinion.haha

But some people follow different religions- so if they don't believe in that religion, they are going to hell? That doesn't seem very fair.

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But that was before Jesus died, so that meant that they still went by the Old Testiment. And since we have the New Testiment to follow what Jesus did, we should all be baptized to be able to enter Heaven.

thank you that is my opinion.haha

So, if we aren't baptised we can't enter heaven?

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But that was before Jesus died, so that meant that they still went by the Old Testiment. And since we have the New Testiment to follow what Jesus did, we should all be baptized to be able to enter Heaven.

thank you that is my opinion.haha

So, if we aren't baptised we can't enter heaven?

That does seem unfair. What about those who never get a chance to be baptized?
I think as long as you have the holy spirit in you, then you are baptized, even if you didn't go through the actual ritual.

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But that was before Jesus died, so that meant that they still went by the Old Testiment. And since we have the New Testiment to follow what Jesus did, we should all be baptized to be able to enter Heaven.

So, what you're saying is that to enter Heaven we are supposed to do what Jesus did in the New Testament?

I've never raised the dead, had a woman wash my feet with perfume, gone to Temple, fed the poor, convinced a woman to give up all her money, cast demons out of somebody, or risen from the dead.

Am I going to hell?

To me, picking out one thing Jesus did as the thing we are supposed to follow in His footsteps is like picking out one of the ten commandments and saying the others are arbitrary.