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Girl With The Windex Eyes
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:53 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:10 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:17 pm
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Girl With The Windex Eyes
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:35 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:46 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:53 pm
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I just let my church know one day that I wanted to be baptized, once I'd made the decision for myself. One of the worst things you can do, in my mind, is be baptized because you feel pressured into it. I tend to think of it as more of a... personal way to express your devotion, and I think it should come from within. That's why I didn't tell anyone about my intentions until I'd made up my mind.
Seriously, if you wanna do it, just tell your church. Heck, they'll probably do it for you even if you don't attend (depending on the church, of course). I used a tub built into part of the main room, but people have also gotten baptized in rivers while on retreats, et cetera. I think the meaning is more important than the actions.
I don't think baptism is necessary for salvation/forgiveness... but it's something believers are called upon to do. So ask yourself... do you believe strongly enough to declare your commitment?
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:31 pm
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Rednal I just let my church know one day that I wanted to be baptized, once I'd made the decision for myself. One of the worst things you can do, in my mind, is be baptized because you feel pressured into it. I tend to think of it as more of a... personal way to express your devotion, and I think it should come from within. That's why I didn't tell anyone about my intentions until I'd made up my mind. Seriously, if you wanna do it, just tell your church. Heck, they'll probably do it for you even if you don't attend (depending on the church, of course). I used a tub built into part of the main room, but people have also gotten baptized in rivers while on retreats, et cetera. I think the meaning is more important than the actions. I don't think baptism is necessary for salvation/forgiveness... but it's something believers are called upon to do. So ask yourself... do you believe strongly enough to declare your commitment? Even though I know I'm already saved I still want to do it. When I was a teenager I had the chance, but at that time I didn't feel like I had to because I was saved. I mean I guess I don't have to, but I have this feeling of wanting to. Maybe I can find a church I like and have it done there.
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Girl With The Windex Eyes
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:39 pm
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I have to agree with Shadow-shine in saying that it's a necessary part of salvation. Jesus was baptized, and when asked why, He said that WE must fulfill all righteousness.
If baptism is fulfilling righteousness in the eyes of God, and it brings the Holy Spirit onto us as it did onto Jesus in His humanity, then why is that not a good enough reason for us, as Christians, to follow that same path?
As well.let's consider what happened in Acts. The apostles brought three thousand people into the church, and how? Through baptism. All three thousand were baptized and were given the Holy Spirit. The ways of the church back then should be just as relevant to us today, I think.
If you believe, you confess your faith, and you will be baptized by water and by spirit. The apostles baptized people, and our Savior was baptized understanding this same concept (and He is God). Even Peter talks about baptism in one of his letters:
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. 1 Peter 3:18-22
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