Some of the churches ( baptist) I became a member of wanted my baptismal record from when I was baptized after being saved.
When I joined the Green Orthodox Church when I married my husband, they required my being baptized into their church. I was ignorant and did.
When I joined my current Baptist church, I only had to give my salvation testimony and did also include being baptized at age 9.
Couple of things that are red flags … Baptist and Protestant churches that I’ve attended and was not a member offered communion to all who professed salvation but at Greek/ Eastern Orthodox, you can not partake of communion unless you are a member which is by baptism.
What I’d consider a red flag is if a church required a re- baptizing to join their church when that person was already baptized. More concerning would be if a church believed baptism into their church results in salvation (Eastern Orthodox) as they espouse that they are “ the true Church “.
They do not recognize other people as Christians because they are not baptized members of their church.
Also , it’s imperative to under the church’s view on the purpose of baptism when asked to be baptized to join. We know baptism doesn’t save but is for a outward showing that Christ has been accepted as Savior.
So , if a person who is saved but hasn’t been baptized asked to do so to join , I don’t see that as a man’s tradition but more of the church wanting the prospective member to partake of an outward showing that they are a believer.
Baptism in and of itself isn’t really a man made tradition as the Bible does speak of being baptized. But the issue is why are they asking someone to be baptized?
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To show they’ve accepted Christ knowing it’s not required for salvation and have never been baptized-
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To become a member with a purpose of getting saved -
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Requiring a saved person to be re- baptized : this imo is a personal choice. Some church by - laws do ask this for membership BUT clarify the reason for wanting it.
OR depending on their reasoning ( getting baptized again is not wrong )
In other words if the baptism is for anything other than to show a testimony that one HAS ALREADY NEEN SAVED , then I’d be concerned.
Just my personal advice. Hopefully it makes sense 