Reply #22: Okay, that may be true and yet my experience in Baptist churches is...

[CreekDog]

that parishoners did not consider my baptism legitimate. however, since they considered baptism symbolic and not "efficacious" in the traditional sense, there didn't seem to be a technical difference for me to them as a Christian who was baptized as a baby. But nevertheless, I did not like the implication that my baptism was of any less value than theirs because they chose to do theirs and I did not.