I previously mentioned in another post that I was baptised in the Platte River in Colo. I am assuming that most people have been baptised.
Not joking Alonzo Spanish explorer Juan Maria de Rivera of Sante Fe recorded the name "Rio de las Animas" (in English, River of Souls) in 1765. One theory is that the full name of the river was once "Rio de las Animas Perdidas" (River of Lost Souls) commemorating people who died in the river.
I was baptized at the Grace Brethren Church in Anaheim, California, probably in 1971 or 1972. My baptism certificate is in one of my Bibles but I have so many of them, and I am not sure which. I was originally baptized as an infant because, yes, some Protestant churches do that too, but I count that as more of a dedication on the part of my parents and not a baptism,
I was likely baptized as a baby, but I have no idea where. I have no memory of the town I was born in, we moved when I was very young.
well...i was baptized the first round as a baby in the catholic church. i don't count that. many years later...in my 30s somewhere i think...i got baptized in a southern baptist church with the traditional dunk method. then ya gotta stand there soaking wet and tell everyone how you got saved. lol! parents had no problem being at the first one. nobody showed at the second except a couple coworkers. i got saved and the family thought i'd become a christian fruitcake. still get mocked by the folks at times. but i wouldn't trade it for nothin.
I was testing your memory and I knew Colorado would be a dead giveaway since you were baptized in the Platte. I think the high levels of radon in the Animas due to uranium mining may account for my strange behavior.
My confession of faith and formal Baptism was in Atlanta, Georgia in about 1979 and witnessed by a Southern Baptist convention of church members. I also submitted to a second Baptism in about 1982 which was a formality prior to being able to teach the gospel at a church in Louisiana.
Yes, I have known several that any time they joined a congregation or church that differed in doctrine, they had to be rebaptized if they wanted to teach. It never made sense to me. I think there is a fine line that separates baptism and waterboarding. It seems to me that confessing Christ once and arising from the watery grave should be adequate and if another church doesn't want to honor that then, I would question their motives and understanding of the scriptures.
I had that happen to me as well, and it upset me because I felt that the baptism that I had was legitimate and was a heartfelt baptism. I was first baptized as a teenager when I joined the LDS church. Later, when I was going to a Pentecostal church, I felt like I needed to pray and fast and then be baptized again, and our pastor baptized me in the Kootenai River in north Idaho. Many years after that, I lived in Missouri and was going to the local neighborhood church, which was just down the road from where I lived. When I asked about joining the church, they insisted that I be baptized again. Even though they said they could not find fault with the earlier baptism, they still had it as a requirement for church membership. I was baptized again; but for me it was more of a formality necessary to join the church.