Have you been baptized?

Question

As a baby or as an adult? What is your take on baptism? Sprinkling? Immersion?

Is it necessary for our salvation to be baptized?

Answer 1

I was sprinkled in a Lutheran church when I was too young to remember.

After I converted to Christianity, that is after I was born again, I was baptized in water, by immersion, on April 9, 1972 at the Full Gospel Church of San Diego. I was over 20 years old by then.

Salvation is necessary before anyone should be baptized.

So Baptism is not necessary for salvation.

Pastor Art

PS: I still visit that church each time I go to San Diego.

Answer 2

I was baptized as an infant in the church my family attended by sprinkling. I was also baptized as an adult, after I was saved by immersion.
No, it isn't necessary for our salvation to be baptized. John 3:16.
Baptism is an act of OBEDIENCE to God. It is an outward expression, representing the death and resurrection of the body, and the spirit. It is a public confession of one's faith.
Different churches do baptism different ways. I, myself, don't see anything wrong with either way, since the Bible doesn't really specify. We know that Jesus was Baptized in a body of water, but it doesn't say whether John immersed Him, or sprinkled Him. I don't think it matters. If it becomes an issue, then it becomes legalism. If your heart is right with the Lord, and you are saved, then that is all that matters. The Bible emphasises this, not "how" to do it.
I go to a Baptist church, so they immerse. I've had people ask me if "sprinkling" is wrong, and for a while I thought immersion was the only way, but I have come to realize that it doesn't matter. I think "sprinkling" may have come from when the priests at the Tabernacle did sacrifices, they took the blood of the animal, and "sprinkled" it around to CLEANSE wherever they needed to cleanse. I'm not sure, but that is my thought on that. God Bless

Answer 3

I was baptized as a baby, obviously either by pouring or sprinkling, but the method of administration is not important. We are not under pharisaical law that discerns whether an exact amount of water is necessary or what percentage of the body must get wet in order for baptism to have occurred. The water was there, the sign and the seal were there, the grace was there, and the baptism was there. And I am still under that baptism, a covenant that carries the same effect as circumcision did in the Old Testament, saved by grace, and raising my own child under her baptism.

Answer 4

Baptized at 12...Baby baptism is good but I think a person should be rebaptized when they choose as an adult, so it will be meaningful to their spirit.....Actually babies can be what is called...dedicated and at a later age could be baptized. And I think immersion is the very best....We need our bodies covered with water not a tiny bit sprinkled on us....There is a Catholic church in Roundrock texas that immerses.......It is by far the best to be immersed.

Answer 5

Sprinkling is a ritualistic practice invented by modern man. Baptism by immersion as a conscious personal choice based upon free will, not as an infant or as one who has no knowledge of the spiritual meaning of baptism is a public declaration of Christian faith. It represents an original biblical concept of unity with God. Baptism is necessary for salvation as an act of obedience and a decision that ones parents cannot make for him. Jesus Christ, as an adult, received baptism by immersion in the Jordan River by John, the Baptist before receiving the word of sanction by God for his task of salvation " to fulfill all righteousness" and the Holy Spirit decended on Him. In doing so, one joins Him and the Holy Spirit in agreement to fulfill all righteousness. The bible indicates that Jesus was standing IN the water when He was baptized. God sent his son as the living word, an example to mankind. So take it from there.

Answer 6

I was baptized after I became a born again believer in Christ.

The simplest answer to this question is found in the meaning of the word "baptize." It comes from a Greek word which means “to submerge in water." Therefore, baptism by sprinkling or by pouring is an oxymoron, something that self-contradictory. Baptism by sprinkling would mean "submerging someone in water by sprinkling water on them." Baptism, by its inherent definition, must be an act of immersion in water.

Baptism illustrates a believer’s identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. “Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life” (Romans 6:3-4 NIV). The action of being immersed in the water pictures being buried with Christ. The action of coming out of the water pictures Christ’s resurrection. As a result, baptism by immersion is the only method of baptism which illustrates being buried with Christ, and being raised with Him. Baptism by sprinkling and/or pouring came into practice as a result of the unbiblical practice of infant baptism. For more information about infant baptism, see "What does the Bible say about infant baptism?"

Baptism by immersion, while it is the most biblical mode of identifying with Christ, is not (as some believe) a prerequisite for salvation. It is rather an act of obedience to the command to “repent and be baptized” (Acts 2:38). Those who believe in baptismal regeneration fail to understand that it is the “repent” part that is necessary for salvation, not the act by which we declare that repentance to the world.

Recommended Resource: Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ by Schriener and Wright.

Answer 7

I was baptized at the age of 15 yr old and it was immersion. The Bible states we are to be baptized as an outward symbol of our salvation and a baby can not ask for forgiveness of sins since they don't know what sin is. Babies have not learned the difference of right and wrong.

Answer 8

In the Great Commission in Matthew 28 Jesus tells the disciples to go forth and baptise people in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, so it must be important. Jesus himself was baptised even though He had no sin, he told John to go ahead and do it "to fulfill all righteousness."

I was baptised as an adult (converted to Christianity at age 30.) I was baptised in the ocean, in May. It was cold! I have nothing against sprinkling but since Jesus was immersed (don't tell me he went down to the river to be sprinkled!) it was my choice. It was a beautiful experience...I felt as if I had somehow "cast my skin" like a snake or something...I really felt as if a grey layer had been removed.

Answer 9

I was an adult and was immersed in the river. My daughter just got baptized in the church baptismal and was also immersed.

Answer 10

12 yrs old. Baptism is an act of obedience after salvation- not a requirement. Immersion for me..