What I Learned In My Years In Catholic School

[Budge]

[quote]
What I don't understand is why protestants can be baptized so many times. Why do some protestants act like sometimes baptism doesn't work and they have to do it again. Do protestants believe that baptism only works when the recipient wants? The reason I ask is because you are not the only person that I have heard say that they were baptized more than once. Three people that I know who are Baptists said that the were baptized as teenagers and then again in their 30's like you. I know that you can't speak for them but perhaps you can explain the difference in belief.[/quote]

Christians dont believe a Catholic baptism is valid so of course they would get baptized believeing the first one was just a babybath.



That is why you are seeing what you perceive as "repeated" baptisms.

Edited September 17, 2006 by Budge

[cmotherofpirl]

Whether one believes it baptising infants or not, "there is ONE baptism for the forgiveness of sins" so the rest is just playing in the water, and unlike the first one, anything else are mere personal symbols.

[Fides_et_Ratio]

The real difference is that Protestants don't think God can work on His own... He somehow "needs" our assistance in "understanding" His grace to work. Catholics know God doesn't need our understanding to work; grace flows in abundance from Him, our job is to accept it as we are able.

[Winchester]

I learned that friends are like flowers, beautiful flowers. I learned that friends are like flowers in the Garden of Life!

[Mercy me]

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='1065200' date='Sep 17 2006, 04:23 PM']
The real difference is that Protestants don't think God can work on His own... He somehow "needs" our assistance in "understanding" His grace to work. Catholics know God doesn't need our understanding to work; grace flows in abundance from Him, our job is to accept it as we are able.
[/quote]

That has always been my impression and Budge seems to have confirmed it.