Like, if you were baptized as a child but it does not fit your beliefs as an adult? I don't want to, but I'm curious.
2006-12-25 15:01:02 · 8 answers · asked by Bored Enough To Be Here 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes you can and you can do it on the internet. In spanish the word is apostasía i dont know in English but it means that u get away from the church and u are not considered part of its members anymore.
2006-12-25 15:07:26 · answer #1 · answered by whoknows 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you cannot. Baptism makes a fundamental change in the spiritual state of the recipient, such that the soul of a baptized person takes on a character different from that of an unbaptized person. This change is permanent and irrevocable. You can live your life as though you never received the graces of baptism, but you are still baptized and always will be. Of course I am speaking of true sacramental baptism as practised by the Christian Church for 2,000 years, not any of the modern traditions of men that have emerged in the past few hundred years, which reduce the holy sacrament of baptism from a sacramental act of God Himself, to a mere human gesture. Whether that kind of "baptism" can be undone would have to be decided by those who designed it.
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2006-12-26 00:15:45 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what the point would be. Profess your belief in something else or deny the religion into which you were baptized. I think that's as close to it as you would come; I've never heard of an un-baptism.
Then again, if a person felt that was what was needed to leave a religion they no longer believed, I think they could come-up with their own ceremony to commemorate the change.
2006-12-25 23:13:03 · answer #3 · answered by Brian W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There wouldn't be much of a point to it if you could. If you were baptized in a Protestant church, then that baptism would have more to do with a covenant between God and "the entire household". This would make it God's rite, not yours or even your family's, but the responsibility would go to the head(s) of the household in providing a Christian home for everyone within it.
You cannot therefore "erase" the lifestyle that your parents had chosen for you and the covenant that God had arranged within that household. In other words, this was the agreement, go ahead and curse it, but it doesn't erase what was supposed to have happened within your home.
2006-12-26 07:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is that when you're baptized, as a child it doesn't really count. Children are saved no matter what. It's not until you reach your teen years that you are able to discern what is right from what is wrong. You develop a conscious for your actions. That depending on what action you take you feel either good or bad.I hope this helps.:)
2006-12-25 23:11:17 · answer #5 · answered by 2ndSquad 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Baptism is a public proclamation of your beliefs. If you no longer believe in what your parents believe then all you have to do is profess that. You are an adult and can now choose for yourself.
2006-12-25 23:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by Lilah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once your babtized your babtized, the next best thing to being un-babtized is being excomunicated i think
2006-12-25 23:11:00 · answer #7 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did. I just turned around and stopped being christian altogether.
2006-12-25 23:09:40 · answer #8 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋