Why do not all Christian religions believe in being baptized by water dunked?

Answer 1

cath-lickers chunk a little water in your face. Real Christians baptise you like Jesus was. Oh, Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist, not the pope-pee.

http://www.usccb.org/nazipope-pee/mens

With love of them sweet cath-lick mens, cause imacatholictwo

Answer 2

Probably because baptism is a ritual, an outward showing of faith. Only God knows who has been baptized with the Holy Spirit. The act of "being water dunked" is symbolism for dying with Christ (going under the water) and being resurrected with Christ (coming up from the water). The important thing is that all Christians believe that Jesus Christ died and paid the debt for their sins, ensuring their eternal life and forgiveness. Christians should concern themselves with the weightier matters of the faith, not just the ceremonies performed by church goers. Peace.

Answer 3

All Christian churches, including Catholic and Orthodox, recognize immersion as a valid method of baptizing. But not all insist that this is the only acceptable method. It surely was not the only method used in apostolic times since the early Church existed in a desert land where frequently the only water available for many miles was the town well. When Jesus and the apostles preached in such places, baptism was given from a bucket of water drawn up from the well.

Answer 4

Because some don't hold it to be an important issue, so they figure they can skate by with a sprinkle.

Evidently they figure it's only the symbolism that counts so a few drops are just as much water as a dunk tank.

I don't think it's the water itself that does anything, but because it represents dying with Christ, it should be enough water to go under. Christ didn't just get sprinkled with death, he went all the way under.

Rom 6:3
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
KJV

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Answer 5

The Bible is clear, down under and back up again,none of this sprinkling stuff.

So, if the believe the Bible, they dunk, if not, the sprinkle.

And none of this baby sprinkle stuff, in the Bible it was always a person who understood that they made a decision to come to Christ and as a result, they also decided to be baptized.

Answer 6

Adherents of credo baptism look at baptism as an outward profession of faith after receiving Christ into one's heart. The amount of water is also important since it must symbolize Jesus death, "full" burial, and resurrection.

To the paedobaptists, the amount of water used is not important, is not expressly forbidden in Scripture, and is even bolstered in the non-correction of Jews who would have looked at baptism in the same manner as circumcision, i.e. the inclusion of infants and women and servants in this rite, reflected in having entire households baptized that would by definition have included different ages and genders and social status. And since sprinkling of dirt over a body in NT times was a valid method of burial, the parallel is preserved in this manner anyway.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church teaches:

Baptism is performed in the most expressive way by triple immersion in the baptismal water. However, from ancient times it has also been able to be conferred by pouring the water three times over the candidate's head.

Acts 2:38 states: Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.

It has been suggested that there would not be enough time or clean water in Jerusalem for three thousand people to be baptized by full immersion in one day and that some or all of these baptisms might have been by pouring or sprinkling water.

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

Good question, Mary. The practice of sprinkling and pouring methods of baptism was first practiced by people who wanted to be baptized, but they were not located anywhere near a body of water large enough to be immersed. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches abandoned immersion and used exclusively sprinkling. All Baptist sub-denominations practice baptism by immersion, and some other Protestant groups do too.

Answer 9

For many reasons. One reason was the early church believed a person should be baptized toward the end of their life, and it wasn't usually possible to drag a dying person to a body of water for baptism. Sprinking became the option. It became practical since they didn't have the convience of indoor plumbing as we do today.

Oddly enough, most Baptist I know say baptism isn't neccesary for salvation anyway...probably due to death bed conversions.

Answer 10

Followers and disciples of Jesus Christ are to be baptized in flowing, troubled, snow, water, or as they are known by men, Rivers.

Answer 11

eh, heres a joke as my answer,,

a protestant minister and a baptist minister are arguing over how people should be baptised: by dunking or by sprinkling.
finally, the protestant gets exasperated and says, "ok,does it count if you baptise a person up to there knees?" the baptist replies, "no, it is not." "how bout if its up to the waist?" "no, it is not enough" "ok ok, how bout up to your eyes?" "no! its not enough!" "SEE? its only the the top of the head that matters!"