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To: boatbums
I was baptized twice

the first time that you were officially and legitametly baptized, you were baptized Catholic and you remain a Catholic, not a practicing one, but a Catholic nevertheless......if the first baptism was, for some reason invalid, and the second was necessary, you were then baptized Catholic.....whenever a valid baptism takes place, it enables you to be a member of the Christian church....since the Catholic church is the only true and complete Christian church, you are baptized into her....WELCOME HOME!!!....you cannot be baptized into a denomination.....imposible. You are baptized Catholic and decide, for whatever reason, to fall away from the true church....then so be it, you are a member of a Christian denomination that is incomplete...

1,994 posted on 10/14/2013 6:17:17 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: terycarl
you cannot be baptized into a denomination.....imposible. You are baptized Catholic

You just contradicted yourself.

If you are baptized Catholic, by wearing that label, you ARE baptized into a denomination.

2,006 posted on 10/14/2013 7:16:09 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith....)
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To: terycarl
Think whatever you want...I choose to follow Christ not a group of elitists who presume they alone can identify who is or isn't a Christian. The ONLY baptism that “counts’ is the one where the baptizee has made a public profession of faith and God, who sees the heart, knows who are His.
2,017 posted on 10/14/2013 7:58:02 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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