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Mark Price
Mark Price
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If you were baptized by immersion in mainstream Christianity, and then became a Torah follower in Yeshua afterwards, is it necessary to be baptized or water immersed again?

Yes, it is necessary to be baptized again.
No, it is not necessary to be baptized again.
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Abigail

I don't think it's necessary, so long as you understood what you were doing. However, I think it's entirely up to a person. I see no problem with being immersed again. After all immersion is quite common and Judaism for a variety of reasons. Personally, I would like to be immersed again. I think if I had my way, I would probably do it once a year as a reminder of the commitment that I've made. But that's just me personally.
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Steph

No, not necessary. But similar to Abigail, I think being baptized more than once is not a problem. Think I read that in a normal Israelite's life there would be a minimum of seven baptisms if you want to call them that? I just started listening to a series on baptism and the first part was very good; linking a baptism of repentance to a leper's cleansing.
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Rhy Bezuidenhout

 
I never thought about this myself before and Acts 19:1-5 is the closest example I can come up with where someone was baptized multiple times.

"While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, 'Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?'
They answered, 'No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.'
So Paul asked, 'Then what baptism did you receive?'
'John’s baptism,' they replied.
Paul said, 'John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.' On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus."

Love/hate Paul's teachings, but it seems to come down to the actual belief during the baptism.

My new found understanding is that even if you called Yeshua "Jesus" before and got baptised as you believed in His saving sacrifice and only later came to understand His Jewish roots shouldn't make a difference in the actual baptism.

If you were baptised without that belief as either a baby or just because others did it, then I would say that a person must be baptized again.
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GidgetsMom

I agree with everyone above, that theres no problem with being immersed again. The temple had a mass mikvah you had to cross to get into the temple. Without it, you were unclean and could not enter the temple. There are many situations in life that make us unclean and require immersion. The jews believe in a permanent state of uncleanliness without the sacrifices for sin to complete the ritual. Even the sacrificial animals had to go through pools to enter the temple. If your heart is leading you to be immersed, do so. If you have the Spirit (trust me, theres no mistaking it), then perhaps its not necessary, although pentecost occured without immersion first. Its all a matter of the heart.
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Mark Price

I don't think that rebaptism is necessary. But there is nothing wrong with rebaptism if a person wants to go through with it.
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BiblicalLiteralist

What are the thoughts on the kind of water one was baptized in, living vs non-living water.
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Lynzie Coller

I’m so happy that I;’m not the only one who is thinking this. I have been baptized twice, in the church, but always wondered if it would be appropriate to do it again; but baptized into Torah this time.
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Mark Price

I once fellowshipped for a while with an independent Church of God group that was a offshoot of Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God. They told me that I could not participate in their Passover unless I was rebaptized by them. I was previously baptized in a Baptist Church and Seventh Day Adventist church and have been a Torah follower in Yeshua for over 10 years. But they wouldn't accept that and still wanted me to go through their baptism before I could participate in their Passover. I left that group over that issue. What do the rest of you think?
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