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Originally Posted by stmatthew
I believe that one should be of an age that they make their own decision to be baptized. The age will be different for each child. An infant cannot make its own decision. But I in no way believe that you have to have full understanding on the doctrine of baptism for it to be effective. You just simply have to be able to make a choice to obey the Word of God.
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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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