How does getting Baptised get one closer to Jesus and God, anyway......?

Question

I mean, you and your congregation stand in a murky river, full of who knows what raw sewage, paramecia, bacteria, and proceed to allow the pastor to dunk you completely under the water.

Hopefully if you can hold your breath you won't inhale any nasty amoebae or other parasites that might eat your brain inside out, and then once you arise, somehow you are reborn, baptized.

Does this process really cleanse one's sins, even though the cleansing agent is, shall we say, a bit less than hygienic itself...?!


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Answer 1

Hahaha. Come on, man! Theists believe a fairy created everything. They don't believe in bacteria and such. It looks clean to them.

Answer 2

The act of getting submerged in water does not cleanse your sins. The only way your sins will be forgiven is if you give them to Jesus on the cross. When you get baptized, it's not the physically going under water part that saves you. It is a way to show that you follow God, and to publicly say that you have a new life in Him.

Answer 3

Well the cleansing isn't the outward body, otherwise we're talking about taking a bath. Personally, I got baptised in chlorinated tap water in a custom made baptistery.



The concept of baptism is a submission to God's word and acceptance of his grace.



It is a symbolic partaking in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a living testimony to the that fact that Jesus was crucified (those of us who have been baptised have died spiritually with Christ in repentance, that is to say we made a conscious effort to no longer live for our own benefit but for the benefit of others. After our spiritual deaths, we are buried that is to say immersed under water in order to symbolise that we are taking part in the burial of our old self and remembering Jesus' burial, we are then raised out of the water, to symbolise the fact that Jesus was raised out of the grave and we too have been raised to a new life, one that is different from the old life). Baptism then is a form of transition a living testimonial, out with the old in with the new as it were.



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Answer 4

Water baptism is to identify ones self with Christ. It is an outward sign of what has happened inwardly by the Holy Spirit coming to live in each Christian.



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Answer 5

You are not reborn by baptism, and it does not cleanse your sins, the blood of Jesus cleanses you of your sin. Baptism is a type of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection from the dead, and it is an act of your faith in what Jesus did for you.

Answer 6

Salvation will get you closer to Jesus and cleanse your sin.



Glub glub will just get you wet.

Answer 7

When you submit to God in baptism you go down in death (to yourself, the world and the devil) and raise to newness of life

Answer 8

It is just a symbol of our Public Stand for Him After Salvation, that's all anyway.

Answer 9

Baptism is how one becomes Born Again in Christ.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

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Answer 12

We have baptismals now

Answer 13

Are there alligators?