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Originally Posted by jwharv
This has been my point all along in my case. I never actually made the decesion to be baptized the first time. I was around 4 or 5 and the sunday school teacher basicly told us he was going to ask our parents if it was okay for us to be baptised. We went along because most of us just thought of it as getting to play in the water of the baptismal tank. We did not know any better. I did not understand what being baptised was about and I truely feel the choice was made for me instead of by me.
This is the reason when I got the Holy Ghost I felt I needed to be rebaptized. I had multiple people tell me it was not neccesary and I prayed and truely agonized over the decesion before asking my pastor at the time. I truely feel it is what God lead me to do and I can truely say there was a huge diffrence when I came out of the water the second time then when I did the first time. But as I said I can opnly speak for my expereince.
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If you were not old enough to make a decision, or the decision was made for you, then I could see the need, because you really were never baptized according to faith. Baptism must be an act of obedient faith.
My concern is someone who would be re-baptized after having known the Lord.