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Confessing to a Cat? Satanic Panic? Bodily Mortification? Baptismal Tea? & More Weird Questions

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Can One Baptize With Tea?

Amanda asks the following, jimmy and i like that she has asked the question and then a follow up question. In dire circumstances, can one baptize with tea? It's mostly water. But here's the follow up. Ok, what if it's sweetened? Well, ok, so let's answer both questions straight. The standard theological understanding is that you could not use tea to baptize because, even though it's mostly water, it is not natural water. You have to use natural water to baptize. If in the opinion of an ordinary person, it's no longer water, if it's something else, then it is not valid matter. And adding additional

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