Later documents softened that positioned.
My daughter-in-law became Catholic before she married my son. I helped to find a class for her and I contacted the parish close to her college. I told the priest that she was baptized Presbyterian and he said, "That is pretty close, yes her baptism would be accepted."
We all are much better off by looking at what we share and go from there than to purposely distance ourselves from others.
Wisdom...increasingly rare on FR these days...
My daughter-in-law became Catholic before she married my son. I helped to find a class for her and I contacted the parish close to her college. I told the priest that she was baptized Presbyterian and he said, "That is pretty close, yes her baptism would be accepted."
My understanding is, with water in the name of the triune God, is sufficent.
We all are much better off by looking at what we share and go from there than to purposely distance ourselves from others.
Those who talk about "thirty thousand denominations" (or whatever the number pulled out of a dark place is this year) seem to be deliberately misunderstanding and misrepresenting protestant ecclesiology. See, for an example, the oft repeated chart Salvation reproduced above.
I, as a Presbyterian, don't think the Lutherans and the Baptists are not Christians and in a false church. The Catholic arguers do seem to think that.