Baptism of Repentance

[stevehut]

but do you honestly want to get it or are you so convinced of what you believe that there is no room for error on your part?

Just tell me like I'm a 2 year-old, ok? Maybe then I will unerstand

[Born Again]

Mark 10:13-16

People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.

Can I interject here? I just want to say to the verse Kris posted.. how awesome to be one of the children He layed hands on and blessed!! Oh- I get chills thinking about it!! :il:

[Orr v'emet]

but do you honestly want to get it or are you so convinced of what you believe that there is no room for error on your part?

Just tell me like I'm a 2 year-old, ok? Maybe then I will unerstand

[tsth]

I'm not sure i'm getting why steve is the fall guy here? I'm the one that brings this topic to the table, and I am saying from my own experience, what steve says is true. Am I the only one who is willing to say that at 10, I did not fully comprehend repentance, and that as an adult I did have a great need to REPENT, even though by today's standards, I would be told I do not have that need, because I was saved at 10?, and thus would have been left in the mire?

Is there no one else who's had this experience as an adult?

In His Love,

Suzanne

[Orr v'emet]

I'm not sure i'm getting why steve is the fall guy here? I'm the one that brings this topic to the table, and I am saying from my own experience, what steve says is true. Am I the only one who is willing to say that at 10, I did not fully comprehend repentance, and that as an adult I did have a great need to REPENT, even though by today's standards, I would be told I do not have that need, because I was saved at 10?, and thus would have been left in the mire?

Is there no one else who's had this experience as an adult?

In His Love,

Suzanne

Suzanne, I didn't intend for steve to become the fall guy. I was merely responding to his posts inparticular because they jumped out at me. I totally understand what you are saying, I do. I just think that we can't go around saying that people who accepted Christ at a young age aren't christians. If you have ever been spanked as a child, you know you've done things wrong.

In a previous post I commented that I was saved in college and understood repentance and all that. As I have gotten closer to God I have begun to understand repentance more than I did even then but it doesn't mean that my salvation experience was not real. It's part of the growing process. Getting from the milk of the word to the meat. The bible tells us to have a child like faith. Is it not enough to say, yeah, I do things that aren't right and I need Jesus in my life (to put it in simplest terms as a child might)? The bible also tells us how to continue on working out our salvation. We won't know all there is to know about repentance and obedience and so on and so on at 5 years old much less some of us at 40 years old. That doesn't mean that we are any less a child of God. Am I making sense? If I'm misinterpretting what you and steve are saying then please correct me.

[Born Again]

Everyone has sinned- from age 0-101:

Psalm 51:5

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

This is the statement that disturbs me the most:

I certainly don't believe that a 5 year-old has any business calling himself a "Christian"

In honesty, there's alot of "Christians" who shouldn't be calling themselves a Christian. I was one- a complacent lukewarm "Christian"! But to judge the faith of a child is another thing- Jesus spoke of having a child-like faith. It all goes back to Mark 10:13-16. Who are we to question the salvation of a child?

[stevehut]

Thanks, Suz.

[stevehut]

we can't go around saying that people who accepted Christ at a young age aren't christians.

Um, I said nothing of the kind. I asked about your experience.

[stevehut]

Being spiritually lazy, we naturally tend to gravitate toward the easiest way of settling our religious questions for ourselves and others

[Orr v'emet]

I'm not sure i'm getting why steve is the fall guy here? I'm the one that brings this topic to the table, and I am saying from my own experience, what steve says is true. Am I the only one who is willing to say that at 10, I did not fully comprehend repentance, and that as an adult I did have a great need to REPENT, even though by today's standards, I would be told I do not have that need, because I was saved at 10?, and thus would have been left in the mire?

Is there no one else who's had this experience as an adult?

In His Love,

Suzanne

One more thing...

I guess the thing is too is that repentance is not a one time thing. It's something that we are supposed to do with regards to any sin in our life. For someone to say that you wouldn't need to "repent" because you had done it at an earlier age would be a little suspicious anyway.