Sentences with phrase «though water baptism»

Though water baptism is a great and wonderful symbol, it is not immediately understood by our surrounding culture as it was in New Testament times.

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It was thought that the significance of baptism was not in the symbol of going under the water and then rising back up as though from the dead, but in the power of the water itself after it had been blessed by a priest.

This is from some notes of mine «Paul could say the Israelites were baptized into Moses even though they did not undergo literal water baptism in the name of Moses.

Three of the high - water marks of 20th - century ecumenism reflect this dominance: the WCC's New Delhi statement on «the unity we seek» (1961), Vatican II's Unitatis redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism, 1964) and the WCC's Faith and Order document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, which, though not given its finishing touches until just before its publication in 1982, reflects in its substance agreements that had been reached a decade or more earlier.