[boatbums]

It’s something that is done out of obedience and should be done of one’s own free will, not inflicted on any one. Many people who come to Christ as adults who were infant baptized choose to get baptized again, simply as a taking a stand and making a public declaration kind of thing. There’s something about making a commitment and sealing it with a ceremony that makes it more meaningful and significant.

I agree that baptism is certainly something we should do as Christians when we have made that decision to follow Christ and you are right that it should not be something that is just done to someone against their will.

I am one of those people who was baptized as a baby but when I actually understood the Gospel and trusted in Jesus as my Savior, I chose to be baptized again. It was just as you said, a personal declaration that I was a new creation in Christ and I was buried with him in his death and raised again into newness of life. Praise the Lord! I think it means so much more when it is a real choice of the person being baptized and not something done TO them before they could even know anything or remember it.

[metmom]

AMEN!!!

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

proverbs 14:12 seems appropriate.

you are another one that believes no Christian understood baptism until the Anabaptists showed up in the 16th century, really??

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

didn’t get much work done tonight, i will check back to see your answer on my question to you. a good night to all!

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

didn’t get much work done tonight, i will check back to see your answer on my question to you. a good night to all!