Thursday, August 18, 2011
Do non-Catholics consider a Catholic baptism as being valid?
In 1peter2:21we are told that Jesus is our example. Math. 3:18 tells us Jesus came up out of the water. In acts 8:38-39 The Ethiopian and Phillip both went down into the water and they both came up out of the water. In Romans 6:4 Paul tells us baptism is being buried with Christ and being resurrected with Christ. If sprinkling can duplicate these requirements then maybe that would be a valid baptism. I do not think any baptism duplicates these descriptions but total emmersion in sufficient water to completly cover the one to be baptized. This is my answer. In Acts 19:1-6 we have an example of rebaptism. Yes it would be proper to rebaptize if converting from Catholicism to a Protest denomination also a person needs to repent of their sins before baptism and a baby is not able to do this therefore it is not proper to baptize a baby.
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