Church
I was baptised as a baby. Do I need to be baptised again?
Short answer
Christians genuinely disagree on this. Talk to your local church, and follow your conscience before God.
Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran and Reformed churches baptise babies of believing parents as a sign of God's promise to the family, like circumcision in the Old Testament, and expect the child to own that faith later.
Baptist, Pentecostal and many free churches baptise only people who can confess faith themselves, because in the New Testament baptism follows believing.
Both sides love Jesus and take the Bible seriously, and both agree baptism points to what Christ has done, not what we have done.
If you were baptised as a baby and have now come to faith, ask your church leaders how they see it, then decide prayerfully. The real question is whether you trust Jesus today.
My verses
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.” Then Paul and Silas spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house. At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.
In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.