Bible Question: Is it okay to be baptized, by water, more than once? I have a friend who is going to get baptized for the second time, the first time happened when she was around 7 years old. Now at 23, she wants to do it again. What does the Bible say about this? |
Bible Answer: DearJMR, I believe we should do as the Holy Spirit leads us to do. I was born, baptized as an infant and raised in the Roman Catholic Church. I got saved at about the age of 28 while reading my Bible one night. As I began learning and walking with the Lord and grew in faith, I began to believe that a person should be baptized as an adult, or at least when one is old enough to believe and acknowledge one's own faith...I felt that is what Holy Spirit wanted me to do for many personal reasons. I also no longer attended a church which baptized infants...not that they in any way had pressured me to re-do my baptism. It was a purely personal decision as I felt led by the Holy Spirit. I would not say that infant baptism is not valid, but I think it is really not the best way as it implies that it is a ritual which saves us, and only the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ crucified and our belief in Him, his death and resurrection, saves us; also, as an infant one cannot give one's consent. In that case, it is a more perfect baptism and so I did it again. That does not mean that everyone has to do this...only if you feel convicted by the Holy Spirit to do so. In Acts 19: 3-5, some persons that had received the baptism of repentence under the ministry of John the Baptist, were baptized again because the first time they didn't even know about Jesus, that He had come, nor did they know Who or anything about the Holy Spirit. They were baptized again in the name of the Lord Jesus. I felt it was sort of in line with this passage. Itiswritten |