Pilgrim said:
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"It is my view that Rome is Apostate, thus any baptism performed by Rome is invalid."
Funny that the Catholic Church is the non exclusive one. Any adult convert who has been baptized in any Christian faith in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, (the only scriptural requirements) will not have to be rebaptized in the Catholic faith.

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"I find no solid biblical teaching that would prohibit rebaptism when one's initial baptism was pagan in respect to everything involved; church, pastor, parents, etc."

Well, sir, you will also not find any scripture allowing the practice or a precident of rebaptism. But the opposite may be clearly deducted from scripture; that baptism is a holy sacrament and crucial part of our conversion, and therefore rebaptism (or why not stop there, let's get baptized every week) cheapens it.

Pax Christi

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