Being baptized

[StillFaggyAF]

imma guess that most of us were baptized as babies so.........

 

[KamPushMe]

Got it when I was infant dont really remember

 

[Lou Cypher]

I started talking in tongues and shit.

But really i didnt go into it with any honest feelings about believing. I did it to not seem like a hellspawn in front of my step dads real christian parents. It was really odd and uncomfortable for me tbh. Step dad has a big family and its my first time meeting them and theres like 30 fucking people all at this cabin in minnesota. My step dad's dad is a pastor or preacher or w/e. Thought itd be a good idea to baptize me and my step sisters since we were down there. Everyone gathered by the water and hes all doing this praying shit. Hand all up in my face and shit. Dips me backwards like im a fucking dancer and water goes up my nose. I come up coughing and everyones clapping and shit. Felt like i was getting initiated into a cult it was weird for me.

 

[taeboo]

I think that may be more ppl who were baptized as an adult. I was 10 and had no real idea why I doing it.

 

[jono]

I started talking in tongues and shit.

But really i didnt go into it with any honest feelings about believing. I did it to not seem like a hellspawn in front of my step dads real christian parents. It was really odd and uncomfortable for me tbh. Step dad has a big family and its my first time meeting them and theres like 30 fucking people all at this cabin in minnesota. My step dad's dad is a pastor or preacher or w/e. Thought itd be a good idea to baptize me and my step sisters since we were down there. Everyone gathered by the water and hes all doing this praying shit. Hand all up in my face and shit. Dips me backwards like im a fucking dancer and water goes up my nose. I come up coughing and everyones clapping and shit. Felt like i was getting initiated into a cult it was weird for me.

You were on some Richard Wright Black Boy peer pressured into it shit....lol.

 

[Drew_Ali]

imma guess that most of us were baptized as babies so.........

 

[jono]

imma guess that most of us were baptized as babies so.........

I thought about that but I thought it might be some "born agains" on the board.

 

[Lou Cypher]

Yeah it was odd i was 11 when it happened.

 

[Gold_Certificate]

Woke up from the Matrix before things progressed that far.

It's about the mind-state you put yourself in before it happens rather than the process itself though.

 

[Drew_Ali]

@DoUwant2go2Heaven? prolly could tell you............

 

[StillFaggyAF]

@DoUwant2go2Heaven? prolly could tell you............

that nigga fake af, dude got out of wetlock kids lecturing people about lust and shit

 

[Drew_Ali]

@DoUwant2go2Heaven? prolly could tell you............

that nigga fake af, dude got out of wetlock kids lecturing people about lust and shit

We don't have the same beliefs.....

However.....

He seems to be an honest dude.......

From what I have seen.......

 

[Matt-]

you are supposed to have 'changed' or become Christian prior to the baptism. Baptism itself doesn't "save" anyone. Dipping into the water is a public profession and a symbolic gesture of your transformation.

 

[jono]

Woke up from the Matrix before things progressed that far.

It's about the mind-state you put yourself in before it happens rather than the process itself though.

So can the mind-frame be achieved without the process or is at part and parcel to it?

 

[jono]

you are supposed to have 'changed' or become Christian prior to the baptism. Baptism itself doesn't "save" anyone. Dipping into the water is a public profession and a symbolic gesture of your transformation.

That's interesting. So that means its more of ceremony and the spiritual awakening happens prior. I can understand that. Is it safe to say then that you can have become "saved" and never be baptized (meaning going through the process)?

 

[Matt-]

you are supposed to have 'changed' or become Christian prior to the baptism. Baptism itself doesn't "save" anyone. Dipping into the water is a public profession and a symbolic gesture of your transformation.

That's interesting. So that means its more of ceremony and the spiritual awakening happens prior. I can understand that. Is it safe to say then that you can have become "saved" and never be baptized (meaning going through the process)?

yes. baptism is a ritual. not a method of salvation, or access to heaven

 

[Gold_Certificate]

Woke up from the Matrix before things progressed that far.

It's about the mind-state you put yourself in before it happens rather than the process itself though.

So can the mind-frame be achieved without the process or is at part and parcel to it?

It can be done without the process.

 

[KingJamal]

 

[Allah_U_Akbar]

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I was baptized as a child.... Maybe 6 or 7 years old... I'm not sure. It was cool, I guess.​

 

[StillFaggyAF]

lawd gawd jesus at that booty