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buffy28 said:Anyone else out there that has gone through this too????
I was saved as a young child (9) and throughout my life I have had doubts. Last summer this doubt came in and hasn't left. I attend church regularly and have prayed over and over about it. I don't know if it is OCD and medically related or something else. I have been in turmoil about this for a year now and it is driving me crazy. I know once saved always saved, but i was so young when I accepted Christ, could I have not gotten saved and just thought I did? I need some answers. I have prayed the sinners prayer over and over, hoping to feel something different in order to be certain, but nothing changes. I want to grow as a christian but for some reason feel totally clueless and lost.
Please help!
Razorcardz01 said:My mother had me baptized as a baby, but I don't see God as my only way of life.
I have a feeling she wants me to be baptized again...
and most assuredly I ask the same for you. But just so you fully understand...I was born-again, then baptized. I was born a sinner....was re-born by God's grace, and as we all, I remain a sinner. Simply being baptized or having holy water splashed on you does not lead to salvation. If any one calls them self saved by baptism only then it might be a good thing to stay in the water to quench the flames. No where in God's Word does it say that baptism is salvation...nowhere.Baptists doesn't believe that Scripture says to baptize babies. That is quite right as the scripture does not tell us to baptize babies. Baptism is an outward showing of what happened inside a person when they realize they are a sinner in need of a Savior and ask Jesus Christ to be their Savior and Lord. Baptism is a person showing to the world [that after salvation] he is not ashamed of their being born again, one cannot be baptized until after salvation. Reading of God's Word will show this to be so. If a person hasn't personally done that, then what they are doing is just getting *wet* and not truly baptized. You're getting the cart before the horse. No thank you I am not and neither did God.
If there hasn't been a time in your life that you saw yourself as a sinner and ask Jesus for forgiveness and ask him to be your Savior and Lord, I encourage you to do that.