A
Al_Lee
Guest
I joined the Catholic church almost three years ago (Easter 2010). I will be 53 years old in February. I was raised Methodist and was baptized around the age of 8 to 10 years of age by sprinkling. I later lived a very sinful life til around age 23 or so, when I was re-baptized by immersion as a member of the First Church of God. I was raised to ask forgiveness of my sins directly to God through/ in Jesus name. I married a lifelong Catholic about 2 years after my second baptism. We took the premarital classes and married in the Catholic Church. I attended mass every week for over twenty some years with her. We raised our two sons in the Catholic Church, sent them to catholic schools from k-12. I made the decision to convert on New Years Day 2010 and came into the church at Easter. Most everyone thought I was already Catholic due to my attending mass all those years. The priest that married my wife and I was also the same priest that I made my first of two confessions with and I came into the church with. I tried my best to confess the sins I could remember from the time of my second baptism. Now I have a question. Were my sins forgiven after my second baptism? Our creed states ‘one baptism for the foregiveness of sins’. Since this was my second (and last), were my sins forgiven? I took this baptism seriously, which was by total immersion in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. The first sprinkling in the methodist church I didn’t take too seriously; although I should have. Again, it made little difference in my life as I went on to a very sinful youth and young adult life until my second baptism. I have changed my life thanks to the grace of God, and I’m nothing like I was before. I have lived the best Christian life I can for the last 26 years or so. Were my sins forgiven when I was baptized the second time? (upto that point in my life)