Why would anyone be baptized twice?

[dianaiad]

How can you tell?

When you blow the thing up in photoshop, to the pixel level, you can see the ''ghost" from where the artist didn’t quite get the line right, and where the shading is just that little bit off where the shape was adjusted. It is a masterful, elegant and understated job. I really like the way that whoever did this limited him/herself to the cross area, and let the mind of the viewer finish the rest of the beads.

Of course, that IS my opinion, after having done a lot of digital photographic manipulation on my own. It is an artform as demanding as any other, and this guy is very good.

 

[amontoya]

I have a close friend that is Southern Baptist. Since I started RCIA classes we have had several discussions about religion and my classes, all very respectful of each others beliefs (she actually had a lot of questions about why Catholics do certain things). Anyway before the Easter Vigil we where discussing my upcoming baptism and she mentioned that she had been baptized twice, in the same church (once when she was 10 and again when she was 13). She said she did this because she didn’t feel like she was really committed when she was baptized the first time so they re-baptized her when she felt like she really had finally accepted Jesus. Is it common for non-Catholic Christians to be re-baptized?

I was baptized twice as a child. Once at age nine and again at around twelve. I thought that my original baptism wasn’t valid, because I still sinned, so I must not have truly become a “new creation.” Now, I realize that what I really needed was the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

I was actually baptized three times. I received conditional baptism to enter the Catholic Church, because the church I grew up in doesn’t keep baptismal records.

 

[Nicea325]

I have a close friend that is Southern Baptist. Since I started RCIA classes we have had several discussions about religion and my classes, all very respectful of each others beliefs (she actually had a lot of questions about why Catholics do certain things). Anyway before the Easter Vigil we where discussing my upcoming baptism and she mentioned that she had been baptized twice, in the same church (once when she was 10 and again when she was 13). She said she did this because she didn’t feel like she was really committed when she was baptized the first time so they re-baptized her when she felt like she really had finally accepted Jesus. Is it common for non-Catholic Christians to be re-baptized?

Not all will re-baptize someone. I hear it is more common withn Baptists and Pentecostal traditions. Many smaller evangelical and fundamental churches call it a dedication. Many churches simply have no sacramental comprehension of baptism.

Personally speaking,if one is baptized in the Trinitarian Formula, it is consummated. It is like telling God the first time was not valid?

 

[scooterwheelz]

Wow, that shouldn’t be Ephesians 4 is quite specific, one baptism. As a Catholic I can’t answer your question as to whether it’s common… But I think I might understand why it happened.

S. Baptist lack a sacramental view of the world, frankly they deny them all. In the S. Baptist tradition, there is more emphisis on the “moment of salvation”. When you truely “accept Jesus Christ into your heart”. They think this is what regenerates you (despite John 3), so given your friends questions I suppose that is why they rebaptized when they shouldn’t have.

We are born again of water and spirit, not of accepting Jesus Christ into our hearts as our personal Lord and Savoir. The second baptizm was invalid.

I was a SB my entire life until recently, and this poster couldn’t be any more misinformed. To set the record straight, let me say that SB’s do NOT deny sacraments: they do partake in communion/ Lord’s upper and Baptism, both which are in fact sacraments.

Secondly, Regeneration, justification, and sanctification are all a process - nothing is instantaneous Except God’s forgiveness (only once it is asked of him and one has repented), nor does salvation occur in a moment. Maybe what this poster meant to say was more along the lines of the unexpected personal epiphany that occurs in the person’s heart when the person realizes that they have the Holy Spirit dwelling within them or have received God’s initial grace? By that I mean the first glimpse of grace God gives one in which they will feel compelled to seek him out further, resulting in baptism, sanctification, etc.

As far as re-baptisms go, I have never heard of such a thing being done anywhere by anyone except for the Anabaptists, which were asked to leave the Southern Baptist Convention for failing to adhere to the basic ordinances, mainly due to their differing beliefs of the Sacrament of baptism. There are, I think 57 different off-shoot denominations of the Southern Baptists, so maybe the original poster was getting the SB’s confused with one of those spin off traditions.

 

[MarkBrown]

As was scooterwheelz, I was SBS until a few years ago. I was a seminary trained SBC Minister. The interesting thing about the SBC, there is a big big range of beliefs with inthe
the convention.

Section VII of the SBC Faith and Message talks about what we call the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist. They call it the Lords Supper and Baptism. That is where any similarity ends. The SBC does not hold to a sacramental theology. In the Faith and Message they are call symbols of obedience. Grace is not imparted, given, imputed nada.
The SBC does not believe it. The head of the SBC of Florida teaches that Baptism does not mean anything. I heard and saw him tell a room full of children watching 22 other kids being baptized, that baptize does nothing for you. This is consisent with SBC theology.

I personally know people who have been baptized 4 or more times. When I was in the youth program at Presely Street Baptist Church, it was a running joke to see if Paul would go forth yet again at a revival to be baptized again. I got in trouble with my deacons and associational director, all SBC, for refusing to baptized for the 8th time a young man who asked me.

Section IV dealing with Salvation teachings that Justification and Regeneration are one time events. Sanctification is the on going process. Glorification occurs at death.

all that to reveal that the SBC does not hold the individual churches to the faith and message. The church has to say they agree with it to be inthe state convention, but no one really checks to see if they hold to it.

Fr.Mark