My Lutheran Christian wife wants me Baptized

Munna says: December 23, 2013 at 1:05 am

Hi I am a Hindu boy and married to a Lutheran Christian girl since 3 years and we have a child of 1 year. We married under the special marriage act of India 1954.

Few days back my wife told me to get baptised and get blessings from church as she is not able to eat the param prasad of church as in the eyes of church she had sinned marrying me and she will be out of church for 3 Sundays and the only way to get back to church is joint blessings as a couple.

The church bishop told us we will get married in church in simple ceremony and instead of witness our certificate of marriage under special marriage act will be used as witness and that blessings will be done after I am baptised after I submit an affidavit that I am doing so on my own will.

Me and my wife agreed to that we won’t be baptising our child till he attain the age of 21 and we both agreed to one more point that after getting the blessing and she after getting admitted to church once again I myself will again formally convert to Hinduism.

I want from admin the best suggestions as soon as possible. It’s my humble request and the best way to again convert to Hinduism with all legal documentation. Please suggest. Thanks

Admin says:

Dear Munna,

You are being trapped for doing something you don’t believe in by your wife and her church. You are being forced to lie (FAKE-Baptism) to their church and to the God.

DON’T BE A LIER. Just tell them plain and simple that you are not ready for this change right now and need at least 6 months time to think it over.

So far, you lived your life with honesty; now don’t make your rest of married life full of lies and deception just to please a bishop.

Ask your wife, “Baptism is to cleans ones’ formal (Hindu) practices and a promise to live with Jesus Christ for ever; do you really wish me to give us my birth religion? Alternatively do you really wish that I go and lie to Jesus just because you could eat the prasad?” Further ask your wife how she will feel if you ask her to fake convert to Hinduism in presence of everyone?

Look Munna, you and your wife did good for past 3 years. Further, you do not have any plan to baptize your child till he(she) is 21 years old. So, what you will gain by your wife going to church every Sunday? It is in your interest that she don’t go to that intolerant Church any more.

Forget the church and follow Jesus in your home!

Your wife agreed to marry you by civil wedding. If her church was important to her, she should have thought about it 3 years before. Now she cannot change the rules in your married life. It’s too late.

Even you get baptized, you are not going to keep up with church’s expectations (lots more to come later). You will have to put a stop to it sometime; today is a good day for it.

For many reasons including to save your married life, best option for you is to educate your wife that there is so much in life other than the church (read below). She must decide one, you or that church. Tell your wife to look for another church for her “param Prasad”.

Don’t be pressured by church’s tricks to trap you. You live in a free country, do only that your heart desires. Honesty is the best policy.

Please come back to us with your other thoughts. Munna, be bold. We are waiting! -Admin

“Your religion is like your mother. Just because your mother is less attractive than your friend’s mother you can’t abandon your mother and adopt a new one.” – Mahatma Gandhi.

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