Obviously not everyone on earth has had the opportunity to be baptized or hear the gospel ....so how will they....
1 Corinthians 15
29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1 Peter 4
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 3
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Christ preached the same thing to the spirits (dead people) that he did to the living, repentence, faith, baptism, etc. So how do they receive baptism since you need a body? Someone is baptized on their behalf as Paul said. After Christ was resurrected there were those who continued to carry on his message to the dead, the same as when he left disciples behind at his death.
2007-07-13 11:07:33
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answered by Someone who cares 7
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Well during bible times baptism was immersion and was the practice until the Catholic church was formed.
I am no longer Christian, but if the bible is true then is not the correct baptism the one in the bible?
If so the answer to your question lies not with men, but with the bible and what it says.
so if the bible is true then those several hundred years baptism was not practiced as immersion then the bible was not followed or obeyed those several hundred years.
Just do a word study on this with a good concordance and see what your bible says on the subject. men will say anything from if you are not immerse you will go to hell to baptism at all is not needed and all it takes is faith only.
2007-07-13 10:59:30
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answered by Anonymous
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What hundreds of years?
Baptism has been practiced by immersion in unbroken succession since before before Christ.
EDIT
Apparently folks are misunderstanding this. There has never been a time in the history of baptism when it was not practiced by full immersion in some sect or denomination. That is fact, not opinion. I'm not saying that baptism should be practiced by immersion or not - I'm just saying that there never was a period of time when baptism was not practiced by immersion. Long before the Roman Catholic Church abandoned full immersion, the Eastern Orthodox, Nestorians (who once numbered more than the Orthodox and Roman Catholics put together), and Monophysites have always practiced full immersion.
2007-07-13 10:54:17
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answered by Anonymous
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They're all going to hell!
Just kidding... I think the Lord will judge their hearts. Baptism is an outward sign of being reborn in Christ. The symbolism is lost when it's not done by immersion, but the inner effect, which is most important, is up to the person.
2007-07-13 10:51:37
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answered by Anonymous
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What do you mean? John first baptized with water and that was full immersion, so what do you mean?
2007-07-13 10:51:05
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answered by Y!A P0int5 Wh0r3 5
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I believe it is the way it was done when John did it. But I don't really think the method matters as much as the act of obedience.
2007-07-13 10:52:25
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answered by RB 7
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Yes it is necessary. The others will have to be redone by those having priesthood authority.
2007-07-13 10:52:34
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answered by Isolde 7
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