Change After Water Baptism? - Page 2

theoldpaths · #1 08-21-2008, 10:58 PM

I wonder why some felt differently and others have not?

In my researching for spiritual stuff, I came across this a while back. Perhaps some may find this interesting...

http://jesus-messiah.com/html/rebaptisms.html

Jack Shephard · #2 08-22-2008, 11:57 AM

For me I felt different after I accepted Jesus in my life. I didn't feel all that different after baptizm cause I had already accepted him. After receiving the HG I felt a little bolder or totally complete, like it was easier to witness about God and His saving grace. To me though I felt the biggest change after I repented and accepted Jesus into my life. The way I felt was confirmed when I read Acts. In Acts where it says "you shall be witnesses" and as we know tongues are a sign for the unbeliever made the confirmation in my life that the change was actually real or the change I felt was a real change.

LadyRev · #3 08-22-2008, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by theoldpaths

http://jesus-messiah.com/html/rebaptisms.html

Posting this link explains alot.

dizzyde · #4 08-22-2008, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LadyRev

Posting this link explains alot.

Exactly! I stopped reading as soon as I saw the author.

ManOfWord · #5 08-26-2008, 11:02 AM

My life DRASTICALLY changed after I was water baptized! Not because I was baptized in Jesus' name, which I was, but because I had counted the cost and did not make an emotional decision to follow Jesus. When I was water baptized, I had decided to follow Him with all my heart and never turn back! From that night, I stopped using drugs, alcohol etc. all w/o the HG. It wasn't until 3 mos later that I received the HG baptism. The only thing that really changed was that I could speak w/tongues......still can and do.

I still believe that the HG baptism is the Power of God in our lives, but I see many people whose lives drastically change at water baptism BEFORE the infilling of the HG.

mizpeh · #6 08-26-2008, 11:19 AM

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I still believe that the HG baptism is the Power of God in our lives, but I see many people whose lives drastically change at water baptism BEFORE the infilling of the HG.

Repentance will do that! It's a DRASTIC change of mind and direction. But it's not the new birth. Baptism on the other hand (washes away sins) and the infilling of the Holy Spirit (baptism) both put us IN CHRIST or in the body of Christ.

ManOfWord · #7 08-26-2008, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mizpeh

Repentance will do that! It's a DRASTIC change of mind and direction. But it's not the new birth. Baptism on the other hand (washes away sins) and the infilling of the Holy Spirit (baptism) both put us IN CHRIST or in the body of Christ.

At the risk of it going in "that" direction again, how can someone receive the HG baptism before being water baptized if baptism actually takes away sin?

You don't really have to answer.....it was more rhetorical than anything. Not intending to get into all of it again!

Dedicated Mind · #8 08-26-2008, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ManOfWord

At the risk of it going in "that" direction again, how can someone receive the HG baptism before being water baptized if baptism actually takes away sin?

You don't really have to answer.....it was more rhetorical than anything. Not intending to get into all of it again!

I was baptized after receiving the holyghost and I felt a spiritual cleansing after being baptized in water. Baptism in Jesus name washed away my sins.

Hoovie · #9 08-21-2008, 11:05 PM

I would have to say when I sincerely repented, and asked forgiveness of my sins was when I knew assuredly that Jesus came into my heart and I was born from above.

Sherri · #10 08-21-2008, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

I would have to say when I sincerely repented, and asked forgiveness of my sins was when I knew assuredly that Jesus came into my heart and I was born from above.

(You're very brave to post this.)