The Catholic liturgy of baptism requires the adult baptizand to publicly renounce sin and profess his faith in Jesus Christ before witnesses, at least orally and sometimes in writing.
When people do that in an evangelical church, they call it "receiving Jesus into their heart" and show up here announcing that they are infallibly saved and ready to put those awful Catholics in their place.<humor>
When people do that in a Catholic church, it's greeted with all sorts of suspicion. The Bible doesn't say "If you confess Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved, unless you say and believe those things in a Catholic Church, in which case it's just an empty ritual" ... does it?
Campion,
I would Never say that Catholics are awful and must be put in their place.
The only place I want to see Catholics is in HEAVEN!
Many Catholics are my brothers and sisters in CHRIST!
Many, many years ago...in 1985 to be exact...
I attended a Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group and that is Exactly where...I Became Born Again/Saved By The Precious BLOOD of Yeshua/Jesus The Messiah/Christ!
So...I am NOT into Catholic Bashing.
What I am into is The Word of GOD and The Truth.