Sentences with phrase «testament on baptism»
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New Testament Fulfillment: «After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.
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Its theology conforms to the New Testament teachings, though there is an overemphasis on the efficacy of baptism.
A. 11) that in the New Testament what is most clearly attested is «baptism on personal profession of faith»;
Pedobaptists must therefore rise above inadequate understandings of original sin and the grace of baptism itself and resolutely refuse to baptize infants whose parents give no reasonable promise of Christian nurture; believer baptists must resolutely resist the temptation to build their Christian identity exclusively on the practice and theology of New Testament baptism and to maintain it on a once legitimate but now obsolete critique of sixteenth and seventeenth century Church - State baptismal practices.
Most of them insisted on going back to the New Testament for their patterns and said that entrance into the membership of the Church must be by a new birth wrought by the Holy Spirit, registered by the acceptance of God's grace by the individual, and attested by baptism.