Christian baptism seems to be an inverse stoning. Your friends (enemies) gather around you and give praise (insults). You are submersed in water (killed) as a means of entrance (expulsion) from the community. There is of course deeper reasoning but it seems striking.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_
This makes some sense for credobaptists but most Christians are paedobaptists.
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Replying to @Jed_Trott
Good point. Interesting anthropologically though and certainly applies to first generation believers. I was raised credobaptist as Schwarzenau known as the Old German Baptist in the US, but my mother was Catholic.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_
You can argue that paedobaptism is a stronger method of group identification than credo in the sense that I care more about whether my kids belong to the community of God than whether I do. I was raised (and still am) a Presbyterian in a conservative denomination.
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Replying to @Jed_Trott
I really don’t think one is stronger than the other and I don’t really agree with re-baptism in either case.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_
I agree with your disagreement. As a rule, we don't allow rebaptism unless the original baptism was basically in a cult because, as with circumcision, its not about your commitment to God. It's about your parents and community committing you to God.
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Replying to @Jed_Trott
I’m curious what you would consider a cult though. In the past, my Anabaptist ancestors were considered a cult and burnt at the stake for heresy.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @Jed_Trott
Which doesn’t seem very Christlike especially compared to Dirk Williams but so it goes. I don’t intend to scapegoat the past or defend all those who’ve called themselves Christians.
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