When you are baptized, all your sins are washed away, correct? It is supposed to represent being born again, correct? So if I wait till i get cancer and am on my death bed, (i know i could die through some accident at any given moment, but just follow this logic for now), to get baptized, is this a surefire ticket to heaven? That means I could be like one of the most evil bassturds to ever walk the earth, so long as I cop out at the end right?
2007-04-27 21:25:13 · 10 answers · asked by shivercraft 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thats right, it's good to be saved every few months and in more than one faith. Just to be on the safe side.
Bass-turds :)) fish poop fertilizer, good one.
2007-04-27 21:32:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Sorry to throw your theory "out of the water" (pun intended) but baptism does not save anyone. It is an act of obedience to declare that we now below to the LORD. It should come AFTER salvation.
Baptism can not clease anyone from sin...only the Blood of Jesus Christ can do that and the way it does it is by faith..faith that if we ask God to forgive us of our sin based upon the fact that Jesus paid for them with His blood..that HE will forgive us and give us eternal life. (see the link below)
Oh yea...there is a huge danger to waiting to the last moment....we never know when that moment will be here and it will be too late. Hebrews 9:27...it is appointed unto man once to die..and after this the judgment.
The other danger is that each time we say no when when we feel we need to accept Christ....each time we say...not now, I will do it later, each time we say I will think about it..we harden our heart a bit more. Soon we will not hear HIS call...we will have loaded our ears with hardened wax so to speak so if anyone reading this does have a feeling of a need to trust Jesus...do it now....read the link below.
2007-04-28 04:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being baptized won't save your soul. It represents your new life as a Christian. You have to ask Jesus to come into your heart and save you, forgive you of your sins. Don't do Him lip service, you have to mean it. Being saved is what gets you to Heaven, not going to church or being baptized, as baptism is for the believers. But, yes if on your deathbed, you sincerely asked Jesus to forgive you and save you, then you'd go to Heaven. But, why wait until then, why not do it now?
2007-04-28 04:35:09 · answer #3 · answered by the pink baker 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, Wrong.
Almighty God knows what you are doing...ALL the time.
Genuine baptism is an agreement between you and God...to do HIS will.
Your efforts guarantee nothing.
And not everyone goes to heaven.
Only 144,000 out of all those who have ever lived will have a heavenly outcome.
all the rest will be resurrected, and then those who are willing to obey God properly, will have a future, in the flesh, back on the earth, with no death and no sickness.
Rev. 21;4...Psalms 37; 9,11...Rev. 20; 12,13
2007-04-28 06:49:50 · answer #4 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u arnt saved by baptism.JESUS is the only saviour.When u recieve JESUS u will be saved.And dont wait commiting ur life to JESUS.Death can happen any min so stay awake and watch out.
GOD loves u so much that he sent his son JESUS to die for u to reconcile u back.
John 3:16 says "For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoso ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life".Ask JESUS to come into your heart and forgive ur sins and cleanse ur past with his blood.
With a simple prayer like above u can be saved.
2007-04-28 04:52:35 · answer #5 · answered by Emmanuel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well If you planned on trying something like that, what would happen would be that you wouldn't want to be saved. If your personality would do lots of evil things and like it you wouldn't want to have Jesus in your life.
Also God sends the Holy Spirit to try to get you saved and when you ignore him you end up hardening your own heart and then start to ignore the Holy Spirit, whose job is to get you saved..
In the end you won't
2007-04-28 04:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, baptism is not what saves you. Baptism is an outward symbol of and inward decision. If you have not admitted that you are a sinner, believed that Jesus died for your sins and rose from the dead, and confessed Him as Savior and Lord, then all baptism does is get you wet.
2007-04-28 04:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by treycadeboy 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
babtism is an act of obediance to god..thats it.if you want to get to heaven,your going to have to repent,and be born again unto the holy spirit!...you have until your last breath to do this..thats what the bible says..thats what god wants.
think about this phrase...if your going up a mountain road at 10,000 ft.,with no railing...do you walk on the edge/OR DO YOU WALK CLOSE TO THE WALL?just a thought.
2007-04-28 04:35:14 · answer #8 · answered by just a christian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being baptised is a symbol for the change inside you. If you don't really change, then splashing some water on you is pointless and meaningless.
2007-04-28 04:30:07 · answer #9 · answered by tony c 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that's how it works, I thought it was a kind of like a mark.
2007-04-28 04:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by kiki Dee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋