I want to get baptized...but how and why should it happen?

by Joliette 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  brotherdan

  Joliette, I too have thought along the same lines about the desire to get baptized. I was baptized in the name of the father, the son, and gods spirit directed organization. Gee...how brave they are to twist scripture like that, huh?

  I think you should do it if you want to show your dedication. Solider 77 is right in that it is purely symbolic and does not need to be the public spectacle that JWs make it to be.

  I saw a group of Baptists that went on a tour of the Holy land and some got baptized in the Jordan river. Now THAT would be awesome to me!!!
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  Joliette

  Thanks Bro Dan!
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  Joliette

  Yeah God's spirit directed organization...how does a ten year old catch onto that and really understand what it means.
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  PSacramento

  A Baptisim is about YOU and God, Jesus and the HS, no one else.
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  Joliette

  PS: Thats why I really want for it to be private and not to have a line of elderly sisters with heavy makeup and loud lipstick and JC Pennies outfits with strong perfume waiting to hug and kiss me. I think the gesture is sweet but I want it to be private.
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  Nickolas

  Jesus waited until he was 30, one would think for a good reason. So why not follow his example? Maybe by then you'll figure out what you really want to do.
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  Joliette

  Nickolas: Thats all I'm saying!! Hello...what is the baptism thing really about when it comes to the WTBTS?? And if I brought up Jesus my parents would be like: Well, he was Jesus. He couldnt waited for as long as he wanted.
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  Nickolas

  I have a jaundiced perspective on baptism. I was baptised as an infant (so I'm told, I really don't remember) because my parents were told if I wasn't I'd end up in limbo with all the other unbaptised infants. One has to wonder how that little bit of bullshit tortured the minds of mothers and fathers whose infants died before they had the opportunity. Baptism, in short, meant nothing to me. My nephew was baptised at the age of 13, an age when he could not have had the slightest clue what it was all about, and as a consequence was DF'ed and shunned by his family when he went astray, while his unbaptised siblings living perhaps looser lives are unaffected. The common element in both stories is that the person being baptised was baptised at the behest of others. The answer to your question is, if you don't know how or why it should happen then you should not get baptised. If at some point you think you just might understand the how or why, think about it again because you've probably got it wrong.
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  nelly136

  if you view it as a marriage would you really want to be married to .....

  I know all about the child abuse cover-ups, the U.N. Scandals, abuse of tax laws, the invisible (yet visible) clergy class, 1975, the secrets about the Governing Body, Ray Franz, finding out that the WTBTS makes $951 million dollars a year TAX FREE!!! etc.

  just for baptism sake?

  would your parents still talk to you if you were dfd later?
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  TheLoveDoctor

  then what if one day you really wonder is there really a god. Its really amazing when u really meditate on the idea and reason on other viewpoints