Should I get baptized again?

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I am currently living in a homeless shelter and I attend church and Bible study on Monday and Saturday the guy that does the Bible study on Monday is telling me that Catholics baptize the wrong way and is insisting that I let him baptize me in the name of Jesus and he also said that Catholics do not submerge in water they only sprinkle. I really don’t want to let these people brainwash me.
 
Part of being a Catholic is not listening to people who try to convince you the Church is wrong and their way is right. Unfortunately, there are a lot of Protestants and non-Christians who do this stuff.

You need to just ignore this guy. When he starts in about religion, walk away. He is trying to lead you away from Jesus and the Church.

If you have been baptized once, by a Catholic priest, then you do not need to be baptized again, by anyone, ever.

Also, this guy is wrong - Catholics today do not “sprinkle”, they pour, and it is just as good as immersion.
 
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I really don’t want to let these people brainwash me.
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I am sorry you are currently having to live in a homeless shelter. And I hope you aren’t being coerced into going to this guy’s bible study as a condition of staying there.

He is wrong. Moreover you can only be baptized once. I recommend staying out of his bible study. I hope you can go to mass where you are.
 
Yes we have to attend bible study and church and also pay a monthly donation.
 
Can you find another homeless shelter? This doesn’t seem right, that you are forced to accept someone else’s religious beliefs as a condition of having shelter.
 
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insisting that I let him baptize me in the name of Jesus
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Catholics do baptize in the name of Jesus. That’s one of the requirements for baptism, namely to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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he also said that Catholics do not submerge in water they only sprinkle
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I think that might depend. At the parish where I joined the Church, baptism was done by pouring water over the person, who was already kneeling in water. Needless to say, it was much more like getting washed that the Presbyterian churches I attended, where it really was just sprinkling.

With that said, there is no Scriptural requirement for immersion. The earliest record I’m aware of that makes reference to immersion vs. pouring is The Didache, which very clearly states that immersion is just an option, albeit a preferable one. (However, it also says that “living water” is preferable, which many credobaptists don’t hold to.)
 
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I hope you will reach out to Catholic Charities to see if they can help you.

Of course stay there, and attend the services if you must.

But as to baptism, just say no thank you.
 
Often times, people of one religion try to convert others to their way of believing. It sounds like this is what is happening to you. I see it happening in many places, even here on CAF from time to time.

I just want to encourage you not to think of this person as “evil”. He believes his religion, no doubt, in the very same way Catholics believe in theirs. I am sure he desires to introduce you to Jesus/ God in the way that he knows Him. I am sure he has the best of intentions.

There is nothing wrong with telling him you are Catholic and you aren’t interested in studying his religion, but thank him for his good intentions. You may have to do it several times before he gets the message to move on to someone else.
 
  1. If the shelter is getting any public funding at all (and I presume nearly every single shelter in the U.S. does get public funding) I can’t see how it can require you to attend any sort of religious service at all as a condition of your staying there.
  2. It looks like the shelter is preying on vulnerable people, people who are essentially captives of their circumstances, which is unethical, immoral, and despicable.
  3. Absolutely do not get baptized again.
 
Unless I didn’t read correctly, I don’t know that this evangelization is shelter sponsored. It could just be another person at the shelter.
 
No this person used to stayed at the shelter where I am years ago and now he is part of the minestry team at his church and he does bible study with the men here on Monday nights but he always wants people to get baptized in the name of Jesus according to the book of acts.
 
Being baptized a second time would be saying that God didn’t complete the work the first time. Or that your capability to sin takes away our position in His family.

Neither of which is true.

In fact you CANT be rebatized. If you went through with it, you would simply be getting dunked in water. No Grace would be imparted, so if anything you’re doing harm to your faith rather than good
 
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I keep telling him that I have been baptized already as an infant in the Catholic Church and he says that’s good but you weren’t baptized in name of Jesus.
 
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I keep telling him that I have been baptized already as an infant in the Catholic Church and he says that’s good but you weren’t baptized in name of Jesus.
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You were baptized in the manner Christ instructed his apostles to baptize.

Matthew 28: 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you
 
That’s exactly what I told him he said Jesus was instructing the apostles to make disciples of everyone by baptizing them in his name.
 
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