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10-12-2009 02:18 PM |
Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
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Originally Posted by J. Fred Muggs
(Post 403354)
Can one of the Christian types explain the whole baptism in a river thing to me? Don't get why one would have to run down to the latest pollution infested body of running water to get dunked.
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I grew up Baptist so I should know the answer but don't. Most of the Baptist churches I know about in Minnesota have their own dunk tank (really called a baptistry). Presumably this is because you don't want to go chop a hole in the ice to baptize someone in the winter but I don't know if Baptist churches in warmer climates do outdoor baptisms. In my home town the non-Baptist evangelical churches do baptisms either in the summer in one of the many local lakes or in colder weather they borrow the dunk tank from the Baptist church.
While I am expounding on baptism, the Baptist church (at least the one I grew up in), just has "adult" baptism (the person being baptized has to be old enough to ask for it and make a statement of faith), not infant baptism. It is a symbolic act and doesn't have anything to do with salvation.
I go to a Presbyterian church now where they baptize infants/children and occasionally adults. Infant baptism there seems to be doctrinally pretty meaningless. It doesn't convey salvation nor is it a statement of faith.
ETA: As far as I can tell, Presbys sprinkle, not dunk.
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