Just to clarify a few points raised by your article about me in your web page "Christians evangelizing Catholics."
I did not say the Waldensians began at the reformation...they began in the 12th century as an irregular preaching organisation combining Catholic teaching with error. In the sixteenth century they were taken over by the Swiss Calvinists, despite their reservations about justification by faith alone and paid non celibate ministers. Today they are a liberal Protestant denomination affiliated to Methodism. They have always practiced infant baptism.
Your attempts to priove historical continuity for fundamentalism are as dubious as Mormon attempts to prove the Book of Mormon as historical.
When contrary evidence is presented, (as with the the Mormons ) you claim the Catholic Church corrupted them or destroyed the originals. Your appeal then is subjective...as with the Mormon... i.e "I know that Joseph Smith is a true prophet and the Book of Mormon is true". Bill Jacksion.. "I know I am saved so the evidence whilst lacking must be there!"
As an evangelical I believed my conversion occured when I asked Christ to forgive my sinds and come into my life. It was only later that I realised that God made me a Christian by my original baptism, and my repentance experience was not the initiation but the awakening of my Christian life.
VALIDITY OF SACRAMENT AND MINISTERIAL INTENTION
As long as the minister administering Holy baptism says the Trinitarian formula and pours the water at the same time, that is valid baptism,. the Catholic Church does not question the interior disposition of the minister if the correct form is followed. Hence Pagans and Jews can administer validly if they follow the correct form. I actually spoke to the vicar who baptized me and he followed the correct form. The Catholic Church only questions the intention if the person has changed the correct form. For example Cranmer and his new English ordination service rejected the correct concept of ordination and was deemed " null and void by the Church."However all Cranmers ordinations by the Catholic rite ( despite his interior heresy) were deeemed valid.
I repeat again Bill...you stand in the sunset of your life...please search dilligently my book. You say that if you are wrong the Catholic Church says that you will go to Heaven because of invincible ignorance. Do not distort that teaching, invincble ignorance is only for for those souls who had no opportunity to disciover the truth. I firmly believe that God has given you many insights and leads.However your prejudice is part od f the Anglo saxon fundamentalist ethos that reared you. To that extent that you will be judged culpable
May God lead you down the Damascus Road
Yours devotedly in Jesus Christ
Robert Ian Williams