If I was baptized Catholic as a baby and I want to convert to Jehovah's Witness,would be able to get baptized?

Question

Getting baptized a Jehovah's witness I mean.

Answer 1

YES :)
You will need to notify the Catholic Church that you are no longer a member. Study hard to get accurate bible knowledge, pray to Jehovah letting him know you love him and want to dedicate yourself to him, be willing to teach others about Him and the Kingdom...Get Baptized, it's the most wonderful thing you will ever do. You will know God's people by the love amongst them.

Answer 2

Baptism is a public statement of your commitment to God and Christ, the same as why Christ was baptized. Did you make that decision, based on accurate knowledge of the Bible, as a child? When you are baptized as a witness, you become a legal minister and witness to the glories of God. Like a witness in a court case, you will be telling others about those glories and what commitment to God and Christ means.

It should be noted that you will also still remain Catholic, at least in their eyes. Even upon request, you are not removed from their membership rolls. This is common with most religions, except the witnesses, which only count active publishers when they release their numbers. The only way to get anything close to an actual number, you have to look at the yearly attendance for the Memorial.

Answer 3

I was baptised as a Catholic baby, then baptised as a JW when I was 16, so it can be done. As a baby I had no choice, as a 16 yo I was heavily influenced by my parents and Watchtower indoctrination.

As an adult you have the opportunity to properly research your choice, there is no hurry. Remember that a JW baptism is not like the baptism prescribed by Jesus, but also commits you to an organization, as shown by the baptism question.

Watchtower 1985 June 1 p.30 “(2) Do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of Jehovah's Witnesses in association with God's spirit-directed organization?”

Are you aware there are in excess of 30 reasons to be disfellowshipped, after which all the conditional friends you make will shun you for life, including any JW family members?

Do you know that JW doctrine says that Jesus is not your mediator, but only mediator for the leaders?

Have you been told of the number of false prophecies the Watchtower made, such as Armageddon coming in 1914, or the earthly resurrection starting in 1925?

Please research both sides of the story before making such a committment to an organization. There is a lot of information worth considering at jwfacts.com, all referenced to the Watchtower.

Answer 4

Yes, after you studied and decide to dedicate your life to serving Jehovah. Many of Jehovah's Witnesses were baptized at an earlier point in their lives in a different religion, but when they learned the truth, they dedicated their lives to Jehovah and were baptized. First they had to make sure that if they had been baptized by another religion, they were taken off their records and make it known that they were no longer members of that other religion, but if you were just a baby, then that may not be necessary.

Answer 5

Baptism is a Sacrament that basically would desire to be won as quickly as. some converts are "Baptized returned", because of the fact their first Baptism replaced into no longer a valid one. as an occasion, a valid Baptism happens while, between a pair of alternative issues, one is Baptized "interior the call of the daddy, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit". temporarily, one would desire to be Baptized interior the call of the Holy Trinity, in any different case it somewhat is no longer a valid Baptism JW's don't think interior the Holy Trinity, so as that they do no longer Baptize interior the call of the Trinty; to that end, their baptisms at the instant are not valid. in case you % to transform to Catholicism, you would be receiving Baptism "returned" - "for the 1st time", in case you comprehend what i'm saying.

Answer 6

Before you go ahead with your plans, it might be a good idea for you to decide precisely who you think Jesus is.

Mat 16:13 And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?
Mat 16:14 But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Mat 16:15 Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?
Mat 16:16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17 And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

Do you think God the Father lied to Peter?

How does this passage in any way indicate that Jesus is Michael the Archangel?

And why would anyone want to follow the teachings of a long line of false prophets and incompetent Greek translators?

Surely, you can do better.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

Being baptized as a Jehovah's Witness and serving him and His Son would be the best thing you would ever do in your life time. The reward, everlasting life. Some say Jesus is God, and not the Son, like the answer above me.

Just to show you Jesus is not God, but He is the Son of God:

That prayer and even its introduction in themselves show the very close relationship that Jesus himself enjoyed with his Father. He had been speaking to his disciples, looking at them as he talked; then he needed only to ‘raise his eyes to heaven’ and continue talking, but now speaking to his Father.
It was as simple as that.On the basis of such a relationship to God Jesus addressed himself to God as a son and prayed: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, according as you have given him authority over all flesh, that, as regards the whole number whom you have given him, he may give them everlasting life. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.” (John 17:1-3) Thus Jesus did not claim to be “the only true God.”

Notice that Jesus prays to One whom he calls “the only true God.” He points to God’s superior position when he continues: “So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.” (John 17:5) Since Jesus prayed to God requesting to be alongside God, how could Jesus at the same time be “the only true God”? Let us examine this matter.

Does the Bible agree with those who teach that the Father and the Son are not separate and distinct individuals? No it does not.

Matt. 26:39, RS: “Going a little farther he [Jesus Christ] fell on his face and prayed, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.’” (If the Father and the Son were not distinct individuals, such a prayer would have been meaningless. Jesus would have been praying to himself, and his will would of necessity have been the Father’s will.)

Though he invariably found himself busy from morning to night, he set aside time to talk to his heavenly Father. Sometimes, Jesus got up “early in the morning, while it was still dark,” in order to pray. (Mark 1:35) On other occasions, he retired to a lonely place at the end of the day in order to talk to Jehovah.

Answer 9

Baptisim is strictly a human ritual for symbolically declaring yourself a believer. If a Christian group won't allow you in for ANY reason - stay away from them - they can't be doing what God intended, for all are welcome, always.

Answer 10

my gosh, people agonize over such trivial things - get over it all ready