I myself kind of got talked into it as a young, influential boy.
thank you TheAlphaOmega [:)].
i guess no one else feels like talking about it, oh well ^_^ .
~kakkarot
I don't remember feeling any strong urge to do it, but neither did I feel pressure from other people to do it. I made a definite choice to do get baptised, more-or-less to be obedient to Scripture. Maybe a bit of both compulsion and mental choice. It's been a long time, I don't really remember.
A person gets baptized to be obedient to Scriptures, where we are told to "repent and be baptized". Jesus even was baptized, to set the example for us. Baptism (immersion, which is what the transliterated Greek word means) is a type of going down into the water and getting our sins symbolically washed away, and coming up a new creature. See Romans, about chapter 6 or so.
You don't have to get baptised to get into heaven; if you would have to get baptised, which is a "work", this would mean that you would be saved by works, which is not Bible teaching. Saved by grace, and not by works, lest any man boast.
I did it because I thought it would help my disfunctional family "get better" eh, it didn't.[:(] I now ummmm..really don't see myself as any religion...
Our church had a huge bathtub like thing to baptize the members in. I made the mistake of wearing WHITE! Nuff said..[:I]
Nay [;)]
thanks for sharing nay and exothen (sorry about being so late exothen [:I]). lol, poor nay :P
onefromsomewhereelse: i've heard pretty much all of the arguments both for and against the neccessity of baptism, but that's not what this thread is about [:)].
~kakkarot
I was baptised as baby and there for never given the choice. However when it came time for my first communion (sp?) which is what usually when you are 6-8 years old I was aware enough to make the choice of not following any religion. So I kinda consider my baptism null and void.
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Originally posted by Nay
Our church had a huge bathtub like thing to baptize the members in. I made the mistake of wearing WHITE! Nuff said..[:I]
LOL ! Sorry for you Nay [;)] Hope the males in the assembly didn't get possessed by the "devil" [:P]
I was baptized a few weeks after my birth, as it is quite common in France at least (i think it is because in Middle Ages people feard that their child might die soon after his birth ...) However i'm glad about this, because i almost haven't got any religious teaching in my childhood and have only come back to spiritual things a few years ago. And i wouldn't have the time to do it now.
i'm curious to know who here was baptized because they felt a strong compulsion or urge to do so, versus who was baptized because they made a definitive mental choice to do so.
i myself felt a strong urge, which was strange because i'd grown up going to church three times a week and barely cared too much about it. but one day, a few months after i turned 14, i just felt like i *HAD* to get baptized, and when the minister asked me why i wanted to get baptized i was stumped. it took me a minute or two to even come up with "because i don't want to go to hell". which was another silly thing, i'd grown up in the church and i could answer most of the questions about the doctrine my church believed in, and yet at that moment i couldn't just answer the question using their doctrine about why a person should be baptized.
but anyway ^_^ how about the rest of you? why did you get baptized?
~kakkarot