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?
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?