To: 1010RD; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
Doesn’t it follow that if anyone can baptize under the Trinitarian formula then you don’t need a priesthood or Apostolic succession?
Why? In the natural world, anyone can apply a bandage, does that make us all doctors? Our Lord gave us instructions, some of us can do many things, some of us have a more restricted ministry.
203 posted on
04/23/2010 8:57:27 AM PDT by
narses
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To: narses
OOOOooh, I LIKE that answer!
204 posted on
04/23/2010 9:03:13 AM PDT by
colorcountry
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To: narses
Doesn’t it follow that if anyone can baptize under the Trinitarian formula then you don’t need a priesthood or Apostolic succession?Why? In the natural world, anyone can apply a bandage, does that make us all doctors?
I don't know the Catholic doctrine, this is why I asked. So baptism is limited to anyone using the Trinitarian formula. What can not be performed by lay people?
207 posted on
04/23/2010 4:25:37 PM PDT by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
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