Why did you get rebaptized???

[missourimary]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

Just saying that salvation is primarily a heart issue, and not so much based on a technicality of baptismal intention.

Thanks!!

[Austin]

I was baptised in the catholic church as an infant. Raised in that church and left it when I was 15 years of age. I went to a pentecostal church one night when I was 22 years of age and went to the altar and was baptised that night in Jesus name. Nothing really happened to me during all of this and I never went back there just back out into the world. About three years later I went to a Baptist Church and heard a real man of God preach from his heart the message of the cross. I knew this message from being catholic as a child. But when this man preached for the first time God reached down deep into my heart and convinced me of who i really was, and my heart was broken because of what they did to Jesus. I went to that altar and for the first time I really had a real experience that changed my life and will. Later they baptised me in the name of the father,son, and holy spirit.
Later I met a pentecostal man and started to hang around him and others. And some how I ended back at that pentecostal church where i went years before./ Strange>
After hearing the teachings on baptism in Jesus name and later receiving the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues, I really felt like I wanted to get baptised under the right conditions.
This church was not a UPC church but the Pastor of this church was one of the original founders of the UPC back I believe in the early forties.
They didn't teach remission of sin through baptism and I didn't do it because of those scriptures. I did it because I wanted to and wanted to do not only that but everything that Jesus wanted me to follow.

[Jermyn Davidson]

I did it as a way of attempting to convert a Methodist Pastor to practicing baptism in the Name of Jesus with the ultimate intent that he would leave the Methodist faith to become a Oneness Pentecostal.

[UnTraditional]

I was rebaptized in the name of Jesus Christ many years ago, because I saw it as commanded in scripture that baptism was to be done in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, through all the trials and failures spiritually in my life, I have come to an understanding that baptism may not save, but is a commandment in scripture to the saved, and is an issue of covenant and identity with Jesus Christ. My pastor and I share this same view, and I personally am looking forward to a series he is soon teaching on this subject.

Needless to say, in my own studies, baptism does not save, but is a commandment to the believer. If one is physically unable to be baptized, their salvation is not in jeopardy. If one rebels and refuses to be baptized, that is another story all together. Inability and rebellion are two different stories.

[MarcBee]

I was commanded via the radio to go get baptized in Jesus Name. Had recently already been baptized in A of God, but the radio preacher's take was persuasive and scriptural enough, so I did. The station reached into the Midwest every night--XEG from Monterrey, Mexico. Bishop Randolph Goodwin. After rebaptism, quickly came to adopt Oneness, and never regretted the doctrinal switch. Do regret 10 years as an unquestioning lamb, however. Then another 10 years as a questioning whatever, sheep/goat. Geep.

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by MarcBee

I was commanded via the radio to go get baptized in Jesus Name. Had recently already been baptized in A of God, but the radio preacher's take was persuasive and scriptural enough, so I did. The station reached into the Midwest every night--XEG from Monterrey, Mexico. Bishop Randolph Goodwin. After rebaptism, quickly came to adopt Oneness, and never regretted the doctrinal switch. Do regret 10 years as an unquestioning lamb, however. Then another 10 years as a questioning whatever, sheep/goat. Geep.

No one wants to be a goat, but the idea that a sheep has no thoughts of their own, or can be trampled at will and whim of the shepherd/pastor is a bad one. The sheep need to stay out of the dehorning and castration lines.

[ILG]

I was baptized as a baby in the Catholic church.

I was baptized after repentance as an adult in a charismatic church in the titles. Awesome experience.

I was baptized in Jesus name in the UPC cause the preacher told me to. Not an awesome experience.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

OK I have not been REbaptised but hear me out please.

About the time I was expected to "join the church, and be baptised" etc. I flew the coup and became Pentecostal, and got plunked in Jesus Name.

Being baptized is good, and being baptised in Jesus Name per Apostolic pattern is better, as far as I am concerned.

HOWEVER, the current Oneness Pentecostal fad of using precise and exact baptismal formula and mode to exclude other Christians from the body of Christ is horrific, IMHO.

When the "New Issue" became an issue (no pun intended) it did not immediately manifest it'self as an exclusionary doctrine, but rather, a more "Apostolicly correct" way of identifying with Christ via baptism. Somehow many Oneness Pentecostals have used their distinctions to alienate the bulk of Christianity from the body of Christ. Of course the irony of this phenomenon is that it's the minor splinter that gets alienated rather than the larger body.

Fanaticism will not only cause baptism extremes to "ensure salvation" in Jesus Name, but also repeated baptisms in Jesus Name to make sure all body parts went under, or that one "really understood" the act was redemptive etc...

I say preach the gospel. Allow the scriptures to speak. Leave the judgement to God.

The body of Christ is larger than your local apostolic Church folks!

He's tellin' the truth!!

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

...The body of Christ is larger than your local apostolic Church folks!

Several years ago I realized the House of God is a lot larger than the little room that I had been living in.

[Austin]

Originally Posted by MarcBee

I was commanded via the radio to go get baptized in Jesus Name. Had recently already been baptized in A of God, but the radio preacher's take was persuasive and scriptural enough, so I did. The station reached into the Midwest every night--XEG from Monterrey, Mexico. Bishop Randolph Goodwin. After rebaptism, quickly came to adopt Oneness, and never regretted the doctrinal switch. Do regret 10 years as an unquestioning lamb, however. Then another 10 years as a questioning whatever, sheep/goat. Geep.

I remember the Bishop. I sat in my patrol car many a night and listen to him preach. He was strong on holiness living and made a lot of excellent points.
The sermon I liked the best was the one he preached on, Some people think anything is alright.
One of his quotes was this.

A man will go and get him a woman and say, she loves me and I love her. Then a couple of weeks later he dropped that woman and got himself another woman and tells everybody, it's ok, she loves me and I love her, we are alright.
Bishop then said; I got news for you! Your love won't turn God's thoughts backward.