[billbears]

Worse yet do we have to keep a little card, kind of like the warranty papers that come with a coffee maker? I don't think I got a card when I got baptized. And what kind of baptism counts? The Catholics sprinkle, Baptists dunk. Does one count the same as the other?

Now I'll agree that baptism can be the public profession of faith, as in some churches you don't go down front to get 'saved'. But is it necessary? Hmmmm, does requirement of baptism equate to works vs. faith? I think as a Southerner we sort of expect it down here but I'm not sure it's necessary. Always marked it up to a change in the heart as the defining moment

[Mrs. Don-o]

When I (Catholic) got married to my (at that time Baptist) husband, he just has to get a document from the Baptist affirming that he was baptized with water “In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”