Baptized more than once?

My boyfriend told me he would like to get baptized again. He mentioned the desire to become baptized again was strengthened after reading his devotional, which was a passage in Romans. Please clarify WELS' belief on the need for only one baptism. Thank you.

If baptism were something we did for God, we might want to be baptized again—and again. But, the truth of the matter—the biblical truth—is that baptism is something God does for us. Through baptism God comes to people and gives them faith, life and forgiveness (Acts 2:38; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21).

While Jesus tells us to receive the Lord’s Supper often, there is no command, or even example, in the Bible that tells us we are to be baptized more than once. The book of Romans speaks of baptism as a singular event in our lives (Romans 6:1-2). That may or may not have been the basis of the devotion your boyfriend read. I don’t know.

The blessings of baptism last a lifetime—even beyond. If at some point in our life we gain a new appreciation for baptism, that is reason to think all the more of how greatly God blessed us at baptism, not a reason to be baptized again.

Perhaps your boyfriend read that infant baptism is not valid. In that case, the material he read was not accurate. Again, baptism is what God does for people. Through water and the word he comes to people, even infants, and brings his blessings. How grateful we are for that.