If You were Baptized What Did It Really Mean To You, and why did you Get Baptized? What was Your Motive?

Answer 1

I got baptize twice in my life - once in Rome as a Catholic - Can't remember didn't mean anything.

Then in 1984 Shea Stadium at the age of 14 as a Jehovah's Witness - that baptism meant more to me than me being alive. I found the answers to soooo many Bible questions, My motive was to serve Jehovah with all my might, strength and soul , For me it was the best decision I made in my life.

Answer 2

I was 8 yrs old and taught that was the right thing to do.

Thats when I was baptized, why I was baptized and my motivation to do so.

What it meant to me is that my parents were happy and supposedly so was Jesus, at least thats what Id been taught from birth.

Since then, Ive grown up and found reality.

Answer 3

If i were baptized, it means to me that i have taken a new step in life, and that my life is change from the old to the new. I got baptized because it is a representation of burying the old man with the old habit, to the new man, a new beginning. My motive is to change the way i live, how i live and to be what God wants me to be. God Bless You.

Answer 4

I was baptized Roman Catholic before I was a year old. It didn't mean a thing to me then because my brain had yet to fully develop. Most children take on the religion of their parents, and my mother just happened to be a Catholic. I was, of course, baptized before the age of reason and before I was old enough to exercise my own free will. In other words, I was not given a choice. Since then I've renounced all organized religion and have become free and clear thinking as a confirmed atheist. It feels GOOD.

Answer 5

I don't remember being baptized as I was a baby. I do however remember getting confirmed. To me, church was always a drag. My parents forced me to go and although I grew up in Lutheran church, I can't say that I am currently religious at all. It was shoved down my throat and I didn't like being forced into something that I wasn't even sure I believed in.

I can however, appreciate that my parents exposed me to the church. I just don't have the same beliefs as they do.

Answer 6

When I was a kid, I was scared as sh!t of Hell. So I got baptized at 10 years old because I thought I would "get saved". But now, I am agnostic.

Answer 7

I was originally baptised as a baby into the Catholic religion.This meant nothing to me.
When I grew up and saw the hyposcrisy in the catholic religion I stopped going to church.
I studied the Bible with Jehovahs Witnesses and knew that I had found the truth of God's Word.To qualify for baptism however, I had to obtain a basic understanding of the Bible.Give up practices that were contrary to God's teachings.I had to bring my life into harmony with what the Bible teaches.
Being baptized is a public demonstration of one's faith and desire and commitment to the doing of God's will.The more I learned about Jehovah God,the more I knew that I wanted to dedicate my life to him.
So in October 1998 I did - I got baptised by total water immersion.It was the happiest day of my life. I can now be called one of Jehovah's Witnesses and to me there is no greatest priviledge in the whole world.

Answer 8

I was baptized as a baby, but since I did not have anything to say to that I got baptized again as an adult.

I love my Lord and I did what He asked me to do. And I have been serving my Lord since then.

Answer 9

Galatians 3:26,27 - “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

Acts 2:38 - Tying repentance and baptism together provides forgiveness of your sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 6:1-7 - This shows us that the mode of baptism (immersion) pictures the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. In the same way that He went through these things, our old nature is to “die” and we are to be “buried with Him through baptism into death” and raised to “walk in newness of life” (live like Jesus). So we do not just try to be a better person, we bury the “old person” in the water and become a “new person” through our acceptance of Christ. It is like a new birth and a new beginning for us.

Galatians 3:27 - We “put on Christ” when we are baptized.

1 Peter 3:21 - Baptism is not an outward cleaning, but saves us through an inward cleaning. It is an appeal to God for a good conscience and asks God to take away the guilt of our past sin (that Christ paid for, wiping our “inner slate” clean).

Answer 10

When I was baptized it was a covenant between God and myself, saying that I would take upon myself the name of Christ in all times and in all places. That I would help those who need help, that I would keep his commandments.

Resurrection is requirement for salvation, it is the doorway to the Celestial kingdom. No man can be saved without this second principle of Salvation.

I did it to please my father in heaven.