Naked Baptisms in Early Christianity

Invent a religion so you don't have to tell your friends they smell.

Russian orthodox church baptised babies around day eight from birth, and they are not clothed, maybe except panties - don't know. Adults yearly celebrate Jesus's Baptism by winter immersion into cross-shaped cuts in river ice, now done in underwear and then dry with towels, may follow with hot tea or a steam bath. In Judaism mikvah is an indoor pool for ritual cleansing, for example after periods in women. Mikvah must have some connection to natural water. In modern practice before immersion people take a shower.

Yet another reason why baptism in a physical form is unnecessary for salvation.

And all of it is useless. It will be a better world when people stop believing the utter nonsense of religions (all of them). Religion has caused enough harm to humanity.

Ya in Muslim country we do it every week fully naked and it has got lot of rules

It’s also likely that many different forms of baptism were all practiced separately at once. History is not a neat line with segmented chapters like a book. Pages often overlap.

Vsauce btw

I'd start going to church if they started baptizing in the nude again

Gosh darn liberals always skinny dippin for God

in Catholic church, that is (I assume). in the orthodox church, when baptising babies, they take their clothes off first, and fully submerge them. that's what happens here in greece, at least.

that makes more sense actually 🫤

Idk some babie still done naked

So... Did women have to be bare to get baptized? During that time? Wasn't it immoral for the ancient ladies?

Brub here in Greece we are Baptisted naked I was and everyone else is and also from a very small age

Kind of misses the point.

Pretty interesting how myths change over time .

I can't wait until religion is a guffaw of the past.

as a christian orthodox we get baptized as babies, naked and they dunk our entire body in the water 3 times

In a Jewish mikveh you go fully nude even removing any scabs so the purifying water will be in contact with your whole body

So beneath this guy's shirt, he's body looks like a shirt😮

I don't think we want to let the christian priests be near naked children

its the one time where being naked in church would make sense..

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The mikvah

Seeing as they replaced the bris milah 'circumcision', ritual with a baptism ritual, getting a thorough bath was a small price to pay rather than having their weenus cut and sucked off by a' butcher (mohel).

Every summer, I go camping by the Potomac river. The water is warm, and incredible to be in. Having recited the Nicene Creed every week as a young Catholic... "we acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins"... one of the first things I like to do is submerge myself continually in the Potomac, all while saying to myself, "We acknowledge many baptisms for the forgiveness of sins."

It’s rooted in paganism

Romans of all people? Really?

I baptise myself 597 times while swimming.
I must've washed off all my sins!

Oh my God bro you're the only one I can trust right now everyone keeps not blowing it the negative and I have to literally yell at them you're the only one I can trust right now because you're blurring it I got to go yell at other things by

I just seen this thing online where this dude broke into church church and baptized hisself

You are talking about catholics I suppose, right? Because in orthodox christians it is common that people are baptised as infants, and yes, they are always naked.

I got baptized almost naked. Half naked. I just kept my underwear on. But no. Nothing kinky. Nothing at all. In a pool. On the contrary it was a glorious day. Coming out of the water covered in water. I felt immersed in the purity of my new nature in Jesus. I was focused on the Lord. And not on kinky stuff.

✝️🙏💖 GOD BLESS EVERYONE! 💖🙏✝️

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Unpop. opinion: self-admin’d baptisms are actually a good idea

I have a cute story. My father used to live in Washington state. He found a whole bunch of little turquoise New Testaments somewhere, put them in his car and would have them out to Hitchhiker's. He wants picked up a tall young man with red hair and gave him one. Took him to his destination. A couple years later, we visited friends in Reno. Dad was telling his best friend about this man he gave the Testament to. His friend picks up and says, you taking his boys camping just outside of Reno, and heard splashing just over the hill. He went to investigate and there was a tall young man with red hair holding a turquoise Testament, standing out in the lake, splashing himself with water while reading the little Testament. My father's friend with the pastor. He went down ask him what he was doing. The man says that the Bible says that he should be baptized so that's what he was doing. So my father's friend offered to do it for him. My father in Washington let him to the Lord. His best friend in Nevada, baptized him. No one until that day we visited nkew just how connected these men were.

I wonder if a plague had anything to do with a speeding up up baptism services?
Wait is plague the reason babies are baptized?

I remember that scrubbing tradition for some reason.

This is what happens when you take Bible out of context. It’s happening since centuries and only some have continued to follow it in its original sense.
Wait, all these different people from different geographies were doing something or the other which they over heard, or directly heard or heard thru some third party about the Bible and had their own versions. This only makes the fact that Bible is true, stronger.

Rituals are living symbols. A living symbol is stronger than an graven image, or even the word. Baptism invokes dissociation in the psyche. This may seem healthy but ultimately it's unauthentic and just fantasy, disallowing the victim from running their own life and being truthful and authentic, for the "greater good", wich history shows us ain't so darned great after all. Oops.

If it’s have changed a lot that means it’s not the right religion

John the Baptist is just teaching people how to take a bath until Jesus arrived.

That’s a new one foe me 😮

Non-baptised and proud, non-baptised gang reveal yourselves ✊

Naked makes sense since we're born naked and baptism is our spiritual rebirth...

Seeing protestant baptisms is always very weird to me. Like, why do you have a whole pool.

I know a group that does a triple self dunk

The word “baptize” didn’t even exist in the English language until the KJV translators compromised with the Anglican Church.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo church baptizes people naked.

My how times have changed.