my recent answer to a question<\/a>\u00a0where a woman was baptized when attending the Baptist religion, but she now insists that she was baptized for the right reasons even though the Baptist’s teachings are incorrect regarding baptism.<\/p>\nThis situation is different from your own. You questioned whether your baptism was done for the right motives, this woman insists that she did it for the right motives despite the fact that the denomination she was in at the time teaches an incorrect view of baptism. I suspect that she isn’t being honest about the situation. She is likely rewriting history to match what she currently knows, but I must also acknowledge that I cannot read a person’s mind nor can I look back at the past to see what was done. There is a possibility, remote as it might be, that she as an individual did the right thing despite being in a religion that taught the wrong thing. Since I’m handicapped, I must allow God to settle this matter.<\/p>\n
In general, if a person is being baptized by immersion for the remission of his sins, understands that his baptism joins him in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then it is a valid baptism. Who does the baptism doesn’t matter — if it did, then we would run into problems with how a church can restart when people learn the truth from the Bible. I had a case two years ago where four young men studied themselves out of Catholicism, but they were in a Muslim country with no church in the region. They settled on baptizing each other and thus a small church was born along with four new Christians.<\/p>\n
When a person questions whether his baptism was valid, and people coming out of denominations ought to examine both what and why they did things carefully, I encourage him to be baptized again. If his first baptism was valid, the second causes no harm. If his first baptism was invalid, then he can be confident he has done the right thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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