They set up makeshift ponds with potable water and dunk as many as they can. Sounds silly huh? Well, maybe the closer you get to death the more you know that the God of the Bible is God...
2006-08-27 09:27:33 · 12 answers · asked by Bimpster 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sounds silly that someone dunking your head in water would grant you enternal bliss? Come on, seriously, this is what is standing in between a soldier and heaven? God doesn't care if you touched a kid, so long as you let someone dunk you? This kind of sums up what many people don't get about Christianity, why are these goofy cerimonies more important than leading a good life? Leading a life of compassion and kindness, without baptism will get you tossed in with Hitler and Sadam Hussein, but Hitler could have beat the rap if he converted and confessed???
2006-08-27 09:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by calmflow_21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or maybe it's a natural human tendency to have an overpowering fear of death (just as with every living being), and a community that offers you love, acceptance, and a paradise after life is too hard to resist in that situation, cause the reality of it is so overwhelming.
2006-08-27 09:33:42 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many christians believe the only way you can get into heaven if your baptized. So if they are killed in war they will be able to go to heaven.
2006-08-27 09:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by RSonee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
develop into Constantine Catholic? initially no, he develop right into a pagan purely close to the tip of his existence he converted to Christianity (Catholic). Did he make human beings convert to Catholicism for the time of his reign? No, he ended the persecution of Christianity, yet he did no longer tension all of us to transform to Christianity. maximum of Rome for the time of his time have been pagans and he himself develop right into a pagan.
2016-12-11 16:17:23 · answer #4 · answered by miracle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with all of the answers, maybe it is to be sure they are ok,and will enter Heaven in case they don't make it home for a REAL blessing.....
2006-08-27 09:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dragonflygirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are going into battle. they are preparing for their death. as does any soldier who goes to war. every single soldier, combat or not, who goes into a war-zone has the expectation of dying. it's not pessimistic, it's realistic. think about it...
2006-08-27 09:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by ~ayla~ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it is something they have not done they know it could be their last chance. should be made available to all going to war.
2006-08-27 09:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by kritikos43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in Korea in the early fifties, and I never met one atheist.
2006-08-27 09:57:04 · answer #8 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am sure they feel more assured of salvation after
2006-08-27 09:35:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe they want to be blessed by God.
2006-08-27 09:29:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋