What is a Bible Student Baptism service like? How is it different form a JW Baptism Service? What are we baptized into? What questions are asked of the candidate? What requirements are there?
In 1985 the JW baptism questions changed, with the candidate having to announce their desire to become associated with an Organization. The candidate must answer this question in the affirmative: “Do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in association with God’s spirit-directed organization?”
Bible Students are not baptized into an organization. We are baptized into Christ (Romans 6), just like in the early Watchtower days.
View a Bible Student Baptismal Service and see for yourself by clicking here. (Note that each elder elected by their congregation has full latitude to create their own Baptismal Service with not guidelines imposed other than the congregations desire for the elder to reflect the teachings of scripture in his service.)
You can read the text of the Baptismal service by clicking here.
Is it theologically acceptable for a person who was baptized in the name of Jesus by full immersion in water, and who had an adequate understanding of the significance of the event at the time, to be baptized again if that person was previously baptized by another Christian denomination? Doesn’t that violate Eph. 4:5–6, where the uniqueness of baptism is associated with the uniqueness of “one God and Father of all”?