It could have been an oasis or something like that.

There is No God.

Eat what you can afford
in this New Labour Depression.




Sign Of The Times.

Good point.

I'm not sure which type of baptism my brothers got, but I think my father was total immersion. He is no longer religious though, and my brothers have never been.

I'm probably the purist of my siblings and I was the only one not baptised. It just shows that baptism is pointless unless you practise the faith.

Not religious at all. Never been baptised. The Bible is a book written by somebody as sort of guidelines as to how to live our lives in my opinion, not some book of true stories as is implied. I don't understand how people can believe it to be honest, there's no such thing as magic.

Not religious at all.
Atheism (sp?) yay :]

EXACT SAME!

So you were baptised as a child and then decided to have a total immersion?

Its something I have never heard of before

Im religious. Both my primary school and Secondary school were Church of England schools. I pray every night but dont go to church, athough i really want to start.. perhaps in college. Oh and i was christened.

I am. But I'm not an extremist. I'm only a believer who does most of the events like today. However, I never go to church every Sunday, only when needed.
And I don't bring religion into everyday moral, I live my life the way I want to. But, you don't joke about religion. Atheist or not, it's a question of respect.

Not at all, I'm completley agnostic

My parents had me Christened as a baby because in those days that was the done thing, but it was scripturally invalid, or in the words of Isaiah and later Jesus, "vain worship"

My baptism by total immersion, in accordance with Acts 2:38 was the valid baptism denoted by scripture.

I'm just wondering has immersion become the done thing to be done now? I'm not having a go or anything Sticks, just curious!

From what I can see, among the general population people still seem to believe "Christening" of a baby or young child is the done thing, even though it's scriptural validity is in question.

Immersion has always been around as that is the scripturally correct mode but it is hardly ever offered by the mainstream denominations. (Unless you count the baptist churches and the independent house churches)

The one time I saw immersion being done in the C-of-E was by the Arch Bishop of York, who is originally from Africa.

Is immersion the one which is basically a swimming pool with holy water in and you just pretty much jump in?

I always though Immersion was Believers Baptism.

Baptism by immersion can be carried out anywhere where there is sufficient water, like a swimming pool, a very large Victorian bath (In my case) or a river, pond or even the sea

This is an example I found on YouTube



Not sure which church group this is, but you should get the picture

That is another term for it, most likely developed by either those who still advocate infant sprinkling or those trying to be "neutral"

I was christned/baptised, and confirmed when I was young. It was only when I started thinking for myself that I became an athiest.

Ditto Chewy:thumbs:

Im not at all religious but I do think about what religious thinkers were trying to say and I believe people like Jesus were just trying to find a way of living that benefits all of humanity...Its just other peoples interpretations have been wrapped up in the social and political situations of the time and got even more ****ed up over time. I dont believe a "God" created the earth either but I believe there are ways of being and interacting with each other and the environment that will benefit us and ways that wont....which SOME religious folk have got terribly wrong

Jesus encouraged people to seek knowledge and truth, I'll take that and the ten commandments...the rest is for a different time and place long ago

I was christned as a baby and went church from a young age, don't go so much now. My school is a church of england school and you like have to go church to get in. Aint been church in ages though. I dunno what I think really, my girlfriend is always like - you never have an opinion on things like this. Yeh I don't lol. Opinionated on the petty things :tongue:

Not very religious.

I believe in god and the story of Jesus etc.

I haven't been baptised and I do not go to church.

I am protestant.

And not to forget, The bible is just other peoples accounts/interpretations of Jesus's life. And also Jesus was a Jew and never intended to start a new religion.

The Bible contains more than stories about Jesus, so I suspect you are referring to the gospels.

As for starting another religion, for several years Christianity was seen as just another branch of Judaism until the first gentile convert, about ten years after Jesus died, according to some scholarship.

Jesus came to seek and save the lost and to fulfil the Law. At that time Judaism had wandered into the mire of legalism so it could be argued that if anything he was trying to bring it back into what it should have been, and to make it more inclusive, since even then it was more a them and us religion.

Again, adter the first conversion of gentiles, that is when Christianity can be seen as a separate "religion". In fact, the New Testament records in Acts 11:26 the first time the word Christian is ever used. Well after the conversion of Cornelius, the first gentile convert (See Acts 10)

I'm not very religious at all although I was baptised and went to a C of E Primary School. I'm Agnostic, There might be something more but we'll never know until we've popped our clogs so what's the point in debating it?

Yes I was talking about the gospels and The basis of christianity. the birth of Christainity and every religion really is heavily influenced by the political/social situation of the time isnt it.

Interestingly there were gospels left out of the bible too!