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Since I didn't get any response from necroing an old thread a few weeks back, AND my 12 page paper is due this week.

I would like to know from all Christians on the boards who have NOT been baptized, why not?
    OR
If you know of why a Christian in your life has not been baptized...I probably could use their story too.

Bonus for me is if you have Bible verses to support.

Again, this is not for argumentative or debate purposes...if you are nervous to be trolled or mocked then PM me.  I will delete your answers when the paper is done (which I hope tomorrow evening). 

FWIW:  my professor thought it would be a great idea to include a page or 2 about this opinion, so please help me out.

Well Jesus says we need to get baptized and we all should if we get the chance. IMO we don't need to get baptized to get to heaven because some people never have the opportunity. I have not gotten baptized yet because it never struck me in my walk of faith that it is the time. When an opportunity presents itself or god tells me the time is right I will follow his heeding and get baptized.

I was pressured into baptism by my mom when I was 11 and unsaved. My mom made all of my siblings get baptized all on the same day. It was so fake that it made me ill. I didn't know what it meant, I just didn't want to get in trouble.

Many years later, when I came to know Christ at age 20, I was asked if I wanted to get baptized, but I said that I already had been. There was never an argument from Christians if you said you were already baptized.

Many years later, when I became a Youth Pastor at age 31, I baptized new believers, but felt guilty... hypocritical. I talked with my wife about my desire to get baptized as a believer finally. However, my fear was that a Youth Pastor asking for baptism would make the Senior Pastor question my faith. So, I said nothing.

Many years later, with that guilt still lingering, my son told me that he had accepted Christ as Savior and wanted to be baptized. The timing seemed to be appropriate for us to be baptized together as father and son. I still felt very awkward as a 40-year-old believer of 20 years getting baptized with new Christians. I was worried that people would wonder if I had been faking my faith all this time.

I got baptized with my son anyway, which was both a great bonding moment and a huge sigh of relief for me. I felt like a great burden had finally been lifted off my back.

I am pretty sure I have not been Baptized as far as I know... though I could have been and have just never bothered to ask about it.

My church is part of the Evangelical Friends Southwest denomination. In the Society of Friends there is the whole inner light concept where there is instead a "inward baptism of the Holy Spirit" instead of a water baptism. Though my denomination has no problem with people getting baptized.

I disagree with baptism of the spirit.

My paper is actually on both....outline for you guys info:
(Acts is the backbone of Scripture support)
Major points  (I can provide minor points if people are seriously interested):

Thesis:  In the book of Acts, Luke presented two different methods of how a Christian can be baptized and both methods play a unique role in God's plan of salvation.

A. Baptism performs a unique role in God's plan of Salvation

B. Water is one method that a Christian can be baptized

C. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is another method that a Christian can be baptized

Edit:  I have completed point 1 and moving into point 2 is what this thread is about.

Your teacher approved that as a thesis?

The order of the sentence doesn't match the outline. What I meant was that I was surprised you had a teacher who would accept a thesis that's essentially arguing doctrine at anything below a masters level.

Oh, excellent! Man, I just had a big long train of assumptions running down my track.