Featured what if someone who received infant baptism joins a Baptist church?

Salty, go ahead and ask me if I care.

 

Probably back to algebra

 

Tough.....let him fight his own battles.

 

My own experience is baptists want to re-baptize practically everybody who is not a baptist. I believe in the case of infant baptism, I would want them to be rebaptized because it is believer's baptism and an infant cannot believe. On the flip side, if I believe a person genuinely got saved in another church prior to baptism then I will accept their baptism. I also would only accept immersion not sprinkling.

I don't think water baptism is about salvation. It's an outward sign of an already occurred inward work.

 

Baby baptism is completely non biblical, it's an invention of man, it's an invention of Romanism.

 

Scripture clearly teaches believers baptism.

 

In 1980 I was by a Non Denominational Church Pastor baptized by full immersion, it was a beautiful experience.

 

good! so a testimony in front of people is not necessary....just you, the pastor & the Holy Spirit, right?

 

Thats certainly nice to hear

 

Never was given to us by Jesus to observe, as the main point of the foot washing was to me a spiriitual lesson/application to peter and the rest.

 

We require the belivers baptism only if desiring to have official church membership.

 

Of course it is a spiritual lesson, but Jesus literally practiced it.

 

But never formally stated for us to observe it foir all time going forward. i am not saying a church cannot practice this, as some indeed do, but was not given to us as Communion/Baptism was by Jesus!

 

Why, certainly it was given to us by Jesus, unless someone else said, "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." (John 1:13-15)

 

So you are saying that someone who is in the body of Christ and thus a member of the true church cannot join your local church if they are not baptized in a baptist church? Baptism to me is the outward sign of our salvation when we were placed into the true church.

 

No. I think it should be a public event. What made you think I meant that?

 

Does not have to be done in baptist churtch, but would still need believers baptism. Some Baptist churches will not give communion either if not batized right way, we do not hold that view!

 

Then we agree. The person has to be a believer when baptized or it's never valid no matter the form. And if a believer the actual baptism has to be done in a scripturally proscribed manner.

 

Agreed!