Being baptized

jono
jono Members Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2013 in R & R (Religion and Race)
I know nothing about being baptized but I've heard it awakens something within you. For people on here that have been baptized how did it feel? Did your mind or outlook change from before you were baptized?
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  • StillFaggyAF
    StillFaggyAF Members Posts: 40,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    imma guess that most of us were baptized as babies so.........
  • KamPushMe
    KamPushMe Members Posts: 7,690 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Got it when I was infant dont really remember
  • Lou Cypher
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I started talking in tongues and ? .


    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 ? 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 ? . Hand all up in my face and ? . Dips me backwards like im a ? dancer and water goes up my nose. I come up coughing and everyones clapping and ? . Felt like i was getting initiated into a cult it was weird for me.
  • taeboo
    taeboo Members Posts: 4,669 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
    jono Members Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou Cypher wrote: »
    I started talking in tongues and ? .


    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 ? 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 ? . Hand all up in my face and ? . Dips me backwards like im a ? dancer and water goes up my nose. I come up coughing and everyones clapping and ? . 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 ? ....lol.
  • Drew_Ali
    Drew_Ali Members Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    imma guess that most of us were baptized as babies so.........

  • jono
    jono Members Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
    Lou Cypher Members Posts: 52,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah it was odd i was 11 when it happened.
  • Gold_Certificate
    Gold_Certificate Members Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
    Drew_Ali Members Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @DoUwant2go2Heaven? prolly could tell you............
  • StillFaggyAF
    StillFaggyAF Members Posts: 40,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Drew_Ali wrote: »
    @DoUwant2go2Heaven? prolly could tell you............

    that ? fake af, dude got out of wetlock kids lecturing people about ? and ?
  • Drew_Ali
    Drew_Ali Members Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Drew_Ali wrote: »
    @DoUwant2go2Heaven? prolly could tell you............

    that ? fake af, dude got out of wetlock kids lecturing people about ? and ?

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

    However.....

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

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



  • Matt-
    Matt- Members Posts: 21,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
    jono Members Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
    jono Members Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Matt- wrote: »
    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-
    Matt- Members Posts: 21,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jono wrote: »
    Matt- wrote: »
    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
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    jono wrote: »
    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
    KingJamal Members Posts: 20,652 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Allah_U_Akbar
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    edited April 2013


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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
    StillFaggyAF Members Posts: 40,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    lawd gawd jesus at that ?
  • Say What
    Say What Members Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Most people don't get baptized until you know about sin. Babies get dedicated but its a little different because you don't make your own decisions. I considered myself "saved" before baptism but I had a choice. Sending your child to get dunked in water doesn't change anything because they are not aware of the seriousness decision they are making.
  • Rock_Well
    Rock_Well Members Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2013
    deciding to never be baptized is a surefire way to commit spiritual suicide.

    no, salvation doesn't happen before baptism, yes, baptism does save, yes, baptism is necessary. no you can't get to heaven believing you were saved before being baptized.
  • BoldChild
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    Learning Nen and Initiation

    A student learning Nen trains to manually open and close their aura nodes so that they can control the flow of their aura. One typically learns this process slowly and gradually through meditation. The second method (colloquially called Initiation or Baptism) is by having one receiving an influx of aura from an experienced user that forces these nodes to open; despite how quickly it works, the method is typically frowned upon due to its danger to the student if the user is inexperienced or has malicious intent. Initiation via physically attacking another with the use of an enhanced aura typically causes permanent disability or death.


    Boldchild says, "To have a belief forced on you is to die."
  • VulcanRaven
    VulcanRaven Members Posts: 18,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    is completely pointless aint no such thing as holy water rofl word to Bioshock Infinite.
  • VulcanRaven
    VulcanRaven Members Posts: 18,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Say What wrote: »
    Most people don't get baptized until you know about sin. Babies get dedicated but its a little different because you don't make your own decisions. I considered myself "saved" before baptism but I had a choice. Sending your child to get dunked in water doesn't change anything because they are not aware of the seriousness decision they are making.

    it does not change anything as an adult either.just more stupid superstition hocus pocus religion mumble jumbo.