Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian
From: garyh@crash.cts.com (Gary Hipp)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Validity of Baptism (Was Re: In Communion with Rome?)
Message-ID: <Nov.5.05.19.37.1990.16611@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 10:19:43 GMT
Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 10
Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu

In article <Oct.29.00.44.26.1990.11350@athos.rutgers.edu>
finnerty@sal-sun45.usc.edu (Brian Finnerty) writes:
>The Catholic Church teaches that non-Catholics can validly baptize.

In all the discussion on baptism, I haven't seen any dialog on the
prerequisite of baptism --repentance.  Acts 2:38.  I would think that
would have more bearing on an effective baptism than who does it which
is not addressed specifically in Scripture.

gary hipp