depends . if one thinketh its the act itself , as do the R double c as it batpizes even babies
THEN IT FAILS .
but do try and remember that even peter after SEEING the HOUSEHOLD of conrlieous BE BAPTIZED BY THE HOLY GHOST
and speak with tongues , STILL ASKED if any had water that they COULD be also water baptized .
You see the KEY is this .
ITS SOLEY by the grace of GOD that one be saved , through FAITH IN JESUS THE CHRIST
but if our faith be IN JESUS THE CHRIST , IF WE REALLY BELIEVE HE BE THE CHRIST
well we would have beleived WHAT HE TAUGHT and said TO DO . and DO IT .
fyi So do the Presbyterians.... Start as a baby and completion, as I call it, about the age of 12 or 13.
Is a sacrament in that church, and can only be done by an ordained minister or in rare cases an elder.
Also is said that one gets baptised only once. That is in The Westminster Confession of Faith.
Of Baptism.
I. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, or his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life: which sacrament is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in his Churchy until the end of the world.
II. The outward element to be used in the sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel, lawfully called thereunto.
III. Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.
IV. Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized.
V. Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance, yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it as that no person can be regenerated or saved without it, or that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated.
VI. The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered; yet, notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost, to such (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will, in his appointed time.
VII. The sacrament of Baptism is but once to be administered to any person.
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