Where you baptized as a baby?

[Sweetsurprize]

or an adult? Or where you not baptized at all.

Yes, I was baptized as a baby as part of my family's religion

I am about to be Baptized

I denounced the Christian/Catholic religion so, even if I got baptized as a baby, it didn't mean anything to me.

Other/results.

[libsaretards]

I was baptized in February of this year. Our family does not baptize babies. A walk with Jesus is a personal decision. We teach about Jesus, but we leave it up to the individual to decide their path.

I was an athiest until I almost died in the military. My stomach was blown open and I lost enough blood that I should be dead. I was on life support in a God-forsaken country for a long time. The doctors were about to give up on me. But, I felt a calming presence saying "It is not your time yet. Go back. You have work to do". 6 months after that incident, I was healed fully with only a minor scar on my stomach.

Something like that DOES NOT HAPPEN without divine intervention. Even then, I still had doubts until 2 years ago. Even then, I still hesitated to be baptized, knowing it meant I would have to turn away from a lot of things I really enjoyed. However, I am glad I did. Since I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, my life has thrived more than ever. Yes, there is still a lot of struggle, but God's peace is amazing.

[Jersey2]

There are no atheists in foxholes is the saying.

[HannahMyJoy]

Thanks for sharing your testimony! :D

[OfDeath]

So why do you believe god saved you but not millions of children who get cancer or murdered, raped, eaten by wildlife etc?

[libsaretards]

@OfDeath Only God knows that. However, we live in a fallen world. God gives us free will. Sadly, humans often choose wrong acts and others pay for those actions. Jesus NEVER promised us freedom from suffering. In fact, he promises Christians will have MORE suffering than the rest of the world because we face the same issues as non-believers PLUS persecution in his name. Sickness, terrible human acts and lost connection with nature are some of the consequences of sin in this world.

[OfDeath]

How do you know only god knows that? Where is the proof? And if he does, how do you justify it? Where is the morality in that?
And what denotes a "sin"?

[Jersey2]

@OfDeath Intake it you are atheist. No idea why you waste your breath on being anti-God. If I were, I wouldn’t waste my time since it doesn’t matter. I guess you just like to argue to feel better about yourself.

[OfDeath]

@Jersey2 have a look at what is going on around the world because people think they have divine rights.

It matters.

[Jersey2]

@OfDeath it doesn’t matter at all if there isn’t a God. Its just that we are social creatures and you somehow think it matters. Our species will go extinct and it won’t matter who did what, who said what, who loved who, who helped others, who was successful…. Its all just folly and genetic programming for a doomed species.

[OfDeath]

@Jersey2 Just because something doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, doesn't mean it does not matter at all. Things matter in the context of preventable suffering.

[Jersey2]

@OfDeath It actually doesn’t matter at all.

[Luckycharms12]

Yap I was

[0verthinkExpert]

My last and current church don't do baby baptisms. Baptizing babies isn't biblical. There is no verse on the matter. It's just a man-made practice. It doesn't make any sense because the point of a baptism is to publicly announce that you are a follower of Christ. It's up to the individual if they want to be a follower. A baby can't make that type of decision... or any decisions for obvious reasons.

Instead both of my churches do Family Dedications which is when the parents vowed to do their best to raise their child in a Godly way and to be good examples. After that the whole church would pray for the family. That makes a lot more sense because it puts the focus on the parenting not on the baby.

[strateguy632]

i agree with you. i heard the baby baptism was to "offer some ceremony as alternative to infant circumcision" that new testament said not to circumcision in first cor. chspter 7 "do not circumcision" consider every baby was born intact that applied to them, instructions not to change. in a society like Europe where not common to cut the reason for the replacement stopped applying.

[Bricealan]

@OverthinkExpert... My view, also, and the practice of my church

[Skull_Anon]

I think yes

[Sweetsurprize]

Lol cute.

[shortster]

My church typically baptizes people after their 8th birthday. They have a prebapitismal class and after your baptism give you a membership manual. I moved in the middle of my class and never received the manual. So I have always felt like I was missing something.

[strateguy632]

i suggest you replace the missing pamphlet with a section, you can read instead, in first Corinthians chapter 1, verses 10 until 18 relevant to this.

[theworldisbeautiful9]

I was baptized as a baby in the Methodist church. My family isn’t really really religious though, so they did it out of tradition. I later ended up converting into Catholicism (which also does infant baptism). My baptism in the Methodist Church is still valid as a Catholic since it’s a Christian baptism, so I didn’t need to be re-baptized (you can only have 1 baptism)

[strateguy632]

my church offers water baptism ceremony options but also teaches not required. in contrast to catholic sacrament. in my opinion the message in first cor. 1,17 matches jer. 31,31 and compels reinterpret the baptism in book matthew as spirit not water (or perhaps purifying book).

[OfDeath]

They tried but the church burnt down. Just as the priest went to pour the water on me, the vessel containing it suddenly heated up so much that the metal bacame molten, burning the priest's hands and the water all evaporated. He tossed it aside and it set the curtains on fire. The rest is history. I was the only survivor. A brave fireman saved me. They only had time to save one person.

[FreyaRed]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CN_gveeaBzE

some things happen in dark hospital rooms without knowledge of parents

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, I was age 6 months old with my cousin who just was exactly 1 year old. That was on Aug 9th 1968.

[strateguy632]

two in the same trip , good story.

[Likes2drive]

Much later on at 16 , which makes more sense anyway because supposedly it’s forgiveness of your past sins, but a baby hasn’t sinned yet

[strateguy632]

i won't be lengthy about the debatablity of that reason, but if water baptism shows a decision then only an adult did decide.

[Jerre]

I was Babtized when I was about 10 in a Baptist church. In a very large glass water tank on the pulpit.

[FunkyMonkee]

I'm don't remember where, I was pretty young, at the time! Probably the Lutheran church about 2 miles from here.

[NathanDavis]

yes... as Catholic baby Jonathan Santiago

[Sonorous]

No idea. If I was, then it didn't really do anything because I'm an agnostic-atheist. 🤣

[strateguy632]

oh, the goal was not " to prevent atheism and failed".

[Sonorous]

What was the goal then

[strateguy632]

the purpose of this ceremony when infant, in contrast to jesus as adult in book matthew, was to o replace infant circumcision, so they invented infant baptism for separate identity without losing an infant ceremony.

[Sonorous]

Oh okay then maybe I wasn't baptized then because they absolutely sliced tf out of my shit when I was a baby

[AngryCarl2]

My parents decided not to have me baptized before I could make my own decision to follow their religion. I disappointed them by never doing so.

[Sweetsurprize]

Lol.

[AngryCarl2]

It's not really funny. It means my parents cared about me, at least a little.

[Sweetsurprize]

Well at least you HAD a choice. My parents forced their Catholic religion on me, both as a baby, a child and well into my late teens and early adulthood. I did the whole shabang (baptism/christening, first communion, then later on, confirmation). Even had me believe that God was looking out for me through out most of the begginings of my life. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't but during the times bad things happend to me and the times I suffered, I wondered why he was powerless to help me, or at least prevent things.

[AngryCarl2]

I hear ya.

[Dargil]

I was baptized as an infant AND, as a Mormon. I'm Evangelical now.

[syncheart]

I'm a Christian and I got baptized at the age of 19. In my own pond in my own backyard. Because I'm not Catholic.

[KC-Sunbeam]

Not as a baby, but first as a child who didn't know the significance of it, then much later as an adult who understood it.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

No. Baby baptism isn't scriptural.

Babies don't understand the gospel in order to be saved.

[Massageman]

Both, as an infant (by ritual) and as a young adult (by choice).

[BCRanger10]

I was baptized as a baby.