Thanks for the blog work, and for dropping by my own site (and adding it to your list). I’ve added yours on mine. I remember you and Helen from SBTS! I was also just praying for you and the work at Beaver Baptist.

With you for the sake of the Kingdom,
Spencer Haygood

Thanks for taking the time to visit and leave a comment. You are the very first to do so on my blog!

Your point illustrates one of my own, namely, being baptized in an SBC church does not ensure that a person has a fully accurate understanding of what baptism signifies.

I agree with you about not being re-baptized if you are confident that you did so originally as a response to faith in Jesus Christ. After all, what would being re-baptized mean in your case? That you understand baptism better?

But SBC churches do require re-baptisms if, say, the person was baptized by sprinkling. I don’t think it is so different if we ask a person to be rebaptized if they thought it meant they were regenerated by baptism. In both cases we want to bring the person into conformity with what we believe to be biblical practice.

Thanks again for commenting, please visit often.

(It so happens I was baptised in a SBC church by a SBC pastor, but what if I wasn’t?)

Should I be re-baptized at the age of 20 because my theological understanding has grown?

I personally think: no. Being baptized at a later age would only make me wet. To imply that it would do anything other than that would move us beyond the belief that baptism is symbolic.