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Others contend that baptism administered by a heretical minister should be rebaptized since baptism administered by heretics and schismatics was not true baptism.<ref>Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 3 (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992–1997), 396.</ref> | Others contend that baptism administered by a heretical minister should be rebaptized since baptism administered by heretics and schismatics was not true baptism.<ref>Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 3 (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992–1997), 396.</ref> | ||
'''OUR VIEW''': Because baptism in itself does not save a person, it does not appear that anyone should be rebaptized '''unless the purpose of the original baptism was not focused on Christ''', but rather on a person entering the message or believing in William Branham as a prophet. | |||
=Is baptism required for salvation?= | =Is baptism required for salvation?= | ||