McCain: I'm a Baptist [was Episcopalian, but flip-floped]

AP ^ | Sep 16, 4:30 PM (ET) | By BRUCE SMITH

[John Leland 1789]

My apologies for not knowing the exact mode of putting water on infants in Episcopal churches. The purpose of my statements were to try to understand Senator McCain’s seeming regularity and participation in a Baptist church (currently)without actually being a roll member. And also why he may still feel a strong enough connection to the Episcopal church by his upbringing that his words seem to imply a flip-flop (subject of the article) when there is none intended. My conclusion is that media people are just using an unjust lawyers tactic in this particular case with the Senator.

Of course, neither sprinkling nor pouring water on babies’ heads is found anywhere in Scripture, and is totally unnecessary by the standards of Scripture. If Scripture is not a church’s sole authority for faith and practice, then anything goes.

I’ll take John 3:3-5, too, where the water birth is in the context of the mother’s womb, not the presence of a baptistery.