[Protagoras]

A second baptism is blasphemous because by agreeing to a second baptism you are publicly proclaiming that your first baptism wasn't real - that even though you were baptized in the name of the Trinity, the baptism had no effect.

I disagree with your conclusions. For instance, people renew their wedding vows without proclaiming their marriages "not real". People reaffirm for their own reasons and it would be presumptous to say what their motives are IMO.

[SoothingDave]

I disagree with your conclusions. For instance, people renew their wedding vows without proclaiming their marriages "not real". People reaffirm for their own reasons and it would be presumptous to say what their motives are IMO.

Perhaps you are unfamilar with the Baptists and other fundamentalists?

They do not view their Baptism as "Re-affirming" their infant Baptism. They think it completely unScriptural for infants to be baptised. It is the adult exercise that is real.

SD

[wideawake]

For instance, people renew their wedding vows without proclaiming their marriages "not real".

And Catholics renew their baptismal vows every year at the Easter Vigil.

However, the married couple is not saying that they believe they were never married before - they are saying that they have indeed been married and that they are publicly testifying to this fact.

Likewise with the renewal of baptismal vows.

But actually being baptized again is saying that the first one didn't take.