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hmcshaw
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I was baptized as a baby in the Episcopal Church in 1952. Subsequently, when I was a young teen, my mother converted to Jehovah’s Witnesses and brought me along. I was baptized as a JW at age 16. I returned to the EC at 18 and continued as a nominal member until I was in my late 20s. I was “born again” into a Oneness Pentecostal church and baptized yet again in the name of Jesus. I went on to become a minister and was the youth minister for our district. I became very disappointed in the teachings of the Oneness teachers and allowed my license to expire. After attending several other Pentecostal (Trinitarian) churches I found that they weren’t any better. I feel the Holy Spirit moving in me to search out God’s true church and the only one that keeps coming to mind is the Catholic Church. It all makes so much sense and biblical.
My question (a long way around to get to it) is though my first baptism would most likely be valid, does having been rebaptized into two heretical churches invalidate my first baptism or is it still valid. If I were to enter into communion with the Church, would I need to be conditionally baptized?
There are other issues and I am a way off but I like to be prepared.
Please pray for me and in particular my wife who is oposed.
In Christ.
My question (a long way around to get to it) is though my first baptism would most likely be valid, does having been rebaptized into two heretical churches invalidate my first baptism or is it still valid. If I were to enter into communion with the Church, would I need to be conditionally baptized?
There are other issues and I am a way off but I like to be prepared.
Please pray for me and in particular my wife who is oposed.
In Christ.