[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So precisely whom do YOU consider to be your brothers in the LORD? Other Trinitarian Christians or ONLY those baptized by a Campbellite immersionist?

I was baptized by immersion in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a cold stream as a teen, but the Campbellite church, that later tried to convert me, considered my baptism to be null and void, insisting I be baptize THEIR WAY for their reasons!

Even the Catholics accept a baptism in the name of the Trinity from other denominations except mormons and JWs!

But No-O-O-o! The Campbellites would not accept mine! What is really galling is I came out of an old Northern Irish RESTORATIONIST movement completely separate from the Stone-Campbell revivalist movement.

[LearsFool]

Let's think through this together. :-)

You remember the story of Naaman the leper in II Kings 5? Let me pose a few questions for you to consider. (I'm not asking you to reply with your answers, but please give them some thought.)

What was it that cleansed his leprosy? The power of God? The water in the Jordan? His faith? His obedience in dipping?

If he had dipped in the Jordan BEFORE God's instructions through Elisha, WITHOUT those instructions, would he have been cured? If a leper travels to the Jordan today and dips seven times, will his leprosy be cured?