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Originally Posted by rgcraig
While we are on the subject, one more question.
Once baptized, always baptized?
I know there was discussion last week about re-baptism and there was no scriptural backing for or against it.
If baptism is seen as washing away sin, then what if someone is baptized, received the Holy Ghost, then falls into sin. Just asking God to forgive them is enough once you've been baptized the first time?
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I see this as being one of the probs with the "sins not washed away until baptism" thinking.
The blood of Jesus Christ has been made available to us for continual cleansing. We don't have to be rebaptized every time we have to repent and ask forgiveness for wrongdoing and sinful behavior.
There's no record of rebaptism except in the case of John's disciples after the day of Pentecost. Once they were baptized in Jesus name once that seemed to be enough. There's no scripture anywhere that says we have to be rebaptized after backsliding or going back to a life of sin. I think if it was necessary there would have been teaching on it.
I believe that baptism only has to happen the one time although we have rebaptized some people over the years .... for good reason.
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