Can you get baptized if you are pregnant but planning to get married?
Question:
Hello servant of God,
I have a question which my friend has been asking to help and give her some advice: Can a woman get baptize when she's in early pregnancy and not married yet, but they're planning to get married?
Answer:
The physical consequence of sin isn't what should be of concern. The question is has she repented of her sin?
"Peter said to them, 'Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit'" (Acts 2:38).
Repentance is the changing of behavior and attitude toward sin. Thus, is she no longer living with her boyfriend until they get married? Have they stopped having sex? Does she understand that having sex without being married is wrong? Is she determined to end this sin?
"For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter" (II Corinthians 7:10-11).
If these are true, then she has repented of her sin and needs to be baptized.
