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Hello everyone,

I was born and raised in a Baptist Christian family, and I received Jesus as my savior when I was six years old. I then got baptized by submersion in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit when I was eight or nine years old. I fully understood the decision that I was making and what it meant for my life, so at the time everything was fine.

By the time I got into my teens I stopped going to church, and by my early twenties I started to ask some serious questions about what I had been taught growing up. My search for truth led to Atheism. I was Atheist for approximately six years, but never stopped obsessively searching for the answers in life. Right around the age of thirty I began to realize that everything I had been taught growing up was literally true, and I asked Jesus back into my life. This time it was a fully informed, mature, adult decision.

Although I knew exactly what I was doing at the age of nine it doesn't feel as though I had enough life experience under my belt to really get the full implications of it all. Do I need to be baptized again? Was I really saved the first time?
 
Greetings SPP!

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Welcome to your new forum. I hope you find your answers.

Cordially,
Sparrowhawke
 
Hello everyone,

I was born and raised in a Baptist Christian family, and I received Jesus as my savior when I was six years old. I then got baptized by submersion in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit when I was eight or nine years old. I fully understood the decision that I was making and what it meant for my life, so at the time everything was fine.

By the time I got into my teens I stopped going to church, and by my early twenties I started to ask some serious questions about what I had been taught growing up. My search for truth led to Atheism. I was Atheist for approximately six years, but never stopped obsessively searching for the answers in life. Right around the age of thirty I began to realize that everything I had been taught growing up was literally true, and I asked Jesus back into my life. This time it was a fully informed, mature, adult decision.

Although I knew exactly what I was doing at the age of nine it doesn't feel as though I had enough life experience under my belt to really get the full implications of it all. Do I need to be baptized again? Was I really saved the first time?

Were you really saved the first time?
I don't think any of us can answer that question for you. We don't know your heart.

Do you believe the Holy Spirit is putting it on your conscious to be baptised again?
 
Yes you should be baptized again. The Holy Spirit never left you but you were on the path to hell. Giving up a saving faith is something that calls for a second baptism.
 
When I was 9, I was attending a store front nondenominational church. One Sunday the pastor said that everyone under 9 was to come down front and be saved. When asked my age, I was told "Close enough," and dragged down front. I tried hard to be good but, my life was all over the map. However, I did find a church and accepting that I had been saved, I was baptized. However, some years later during a bible study, the subject came up again. The leader of the study was the Minister of Education at my church. We discussed it and decided that I had not been legitimate, so I walked down the aisle to be saved, and was re-baptized. Has my life been perfect afterwards? No, but now that I have been truly saved I know that, "What God has saved, Satan cannot snatch away."
 
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