Who are you, and what have you done with RaceBannon?
Thank you! :)
My concern was the apparent act of defiance, to demand that the park submit to the Church, not that i was saying that public profession of faith was wrong, I was under the impression this was a different park than what hellinahandcart explained, I thought this was like a 6-Flags.
To me, to do it at a place like 6-Flags would be a grandstand maneuver, not a Holy, Savred event for a believer to publically proclaim their faith.
Plus, you guys in the south are old fashioned! And, the water is a lot warmer! We wouldn't think of doing that stuff up here until after Memorial day anyways! :)
And for th life of me, I NEVER heard of any river Baptism up here at all, not once! We do it at the Churches that have baptismals! Else ANY spot in the river would be nice, not some park.
I was concerned it was an in-your-face act, to force people to see what you are doing, not an act of doing it because it is an act of obedience to God's word.
Of course, what may be true here, is that Churches were Baptising people in that spot for over a century, and because so many people came there, the state decided to make it a park...
I have seen the state make a park out of a swimming hole up here, maybe the state made a park out of a local swimming hole that was also used by the Churches for Baptisms.
Someone asked, Do Churches wait 6 months before they Baptise someone?
That is a good idea sometimes, to see if the person is genuinely saved, to watch them to see if their conversion is genuine, otherwise, you would be baptising someone who was never regenerated. You would be misleading them and the church as to what you were doing and making a mockery of the event.