by Sandy » Tue May 27, 2014 4:23 pm
Key words in the BFM statement would include symbolic, obedience, believer's faith, ordinance, prerequisite to church membership.
I would say with certainty that a church which practiced sprinkling, administered baptism as a "christening" rather than as a post-salvation testimony, or baptized infants would be in deliberate violation of the BFM. Accepting a baptism from a church of another denomination might not violate the language of the point.
Much of the practice of baptism in today's church results from tradition rather than from scripture, which doesn't say a lot about it. How important is it in the whole picture of Christian relationships?