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If you get baptized does it get rid of all your previous sins?

Well I dont know how it works, so explanation would be appreciated. I havent been baptized but I have sinned pretty bad, and I was wondering if you get baptized is it like a fresh plate?? New start? All sins washed away?? Or am I wrong? How does it work? Thanks!! :)

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Yes, getting baptized at a Christian church can clean up your life, but you need to be willing to try to change to stay good. God will help you then. Also, you can say the sinner's prayer below to have God forgive you if you are sincere in your heart that you know you did wrong and don't want to do it again. Saying the prayer below will make you a born again Christian, and then you should try to keep going as a good person and go to church and read the Bible to learn more. Know that God can help you live a better life if you want Him to help you. You can have a personal relationship with God by saying the prayer below. God is our Creator, all-knowing, all-powerful, eternal, holy, love. God loves us and sent us His Son, Jesus Christ, so we can go to heaven if we know and follow Him. Forever means without end -- time on and on without death. Forever is what happens after we die. Either we go to heaven and be with God forever, or we go to hell which is very bad and painful forever. The good people who are saved believers in Jesus Christ go to heaven. The bad people go to hell. We need to know and follow God in this world to get to heaven in the next world. We follow God by loving and obeying Him and loving others for Him. Jesus Christ, God's Son, is our bridge to God. Jesus died on the cross to cancel our sins. We need to accept Jesus into our life as our Lord and Savior forever to receive God's blessing and forgiveness plus go to heaven to be with God forever after we die. This is about being a born-again Christian. Faith in God is a gift from God. You can pray for faith in God. Just speak out and ask God for the faith to believe in Him and to follow Him. Some people find faith in God when they realize the beauty in the world is made by God. Evolution can't explain the world's natural beauty, for example, the parks in the world, animals, flowers, peacocks, sunsets, butterflies, rainbows, etc. After you have your faith on, you can pray a sinner's prayer to be a born-again Christian. This prayer is very important and should be said with a sincere heart and faith in God. This is the prayer: "Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and that Jesus Christ is the sacrifice for our sins. I have done the following sins (state these out) and I pray to discontinue these sins. I pray to receive Jesus Christ into my life as my Lord and Savior forever. In Jesus' name, amen." I'm Lutheran and I like the Baptist churches too. You could check out a Christian church and also see about their weekly Bible study group as a good way to learn about God's will for your life. You can pray to God about your daily life and have a Christian church pray for you.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    When you are baptized, all your sins are washed away - Baptism is to rid yourself of the "original sin' of Adam and Eve [which we all have inherited] - and to wash away ALL of your sins from the time you started committing them to the time of your Baptism - there is no qualification or measure of how many and the weight of them - ALL are forgiven...

    What a gift!! It is a new start, and to understand this on a spiritual level should bring you joy!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Baptism can not prevent or wash away your sins. This isn't what the bible teaches, and if someone says it does then they've misinterpret it or have further matters into it. To be reborn and to have your entire sins washed away you have got to suppose within the precise gospel and no longer the only being probogated at present of most effective the blood at the Cross. If you do that then you definitely insult God and make Him out to be a liar (a million John five:6-eleven). Jesus informed us learn how to be reborn, however individuals dont wish to suppose Him, rather they as an alternative suppose within the devils lies. Jesus stated in John three:five that if we're to come to be the righteous youngsters of God then we need to suppose in BOTH His water baptism and His blood at the Cross. NOT OUR BABTISM PLEASE!!!!! Our baptism is a ritual most effective recocnizing His baptism and blood at the Cross, that is what our baptism method. Anybody educating something else stands accursed earlier than God, for they hold forth one more gospel that the Apostel Paul warned us approximately in Galations a million. These Free Christian Books will blow your brain and instruct you the precise gospel that God in the beginning gave mankind.

  • pops
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    If you haven't already you need to ask Jesus into your life. Confess your sins and ask for forgiveness. Getting baptized has nothing to do with getting rid of your sins. Confessing to Jesus you are a sinner and asking forgiveness from Him is getting rid of your sins. Being baptized is when you die to the world. Blessings

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes but you have to accept that the consequences of your past sins will remain. If for example you committed a burglary, you will still have to pay the price for that even though you have been forgiven by Jesus for stealing.

  • 1 decade ago

    Water baptism cannot and will not even forgive one of your sins.

    The baptism of the Holy Spirit is freely given when you put your faith into Jesus Christ, and this is what matters.

    Jesus is God and the only way into heaven. Please pray a sincere prayer with all of your heart admitting to Jesus you are a sinner. Have full faith that His blood pays off all of your sins and accept His gift of everlasting life. I pray that God blesses you with peace. Amen.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the OLD testament = God's demand for 100% perfection 100% of the time and the consequences of failure…

    the NEW testament = God sent Jesus to meet 100% of the demand, pay the price (death & hell) and IMPUTES Jesus’ righteousness TO US....

    ALL sin is paid for...

    ALL are written in the Book of Life.....

    Those who RECEIVE the gift of eternal life (Jesus), receive the benefits....

    Those who REJECT the gift of eternal life (Jesus), reject the benefits and are “blotted out” of the Book of Life......

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