I am always amazed how readily, and with great relish, all these godly, holier - than - thou, know - it - all christians are ready to consign people to eternal flames.In Mark 16:18 where it talks about snake handling, it also says
about baptized believers «and when they drink deadly poison it will not hurt them at all.»
What
about baptizing infants vs only baptizing older children and adults?
The issue is going to come up soon
about baptizing our child, which we are not going to do.
Not exact matches
If you think
about it, everyone will have the chance to be
baptized (whether living or not) and accept Jesus as their Savior.
Why the Mormons
baptizing for the dead should be offensive to anyone says bunches
about the one who would take offense.
MacIntyre is not naive
about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully
baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»
If you believe, like me, that
baptizing the dead is nonsense then don't worry
about it.
His own father - in - law was posthumously
baptized, so he's not
about to do anything to stop this pathetic practice.
This phenomenon of the
baptized Catholic pagan is an impediment to the Church's mission, for it suggests that the Church is not serious
about the truths it proposes or the consequences of living (and not living) by those truths.
While you get back to your (undoubtedly large) family, I'm going to make a note to amend my will so that I will be cremated and scattered in order to avoid having you folks try to
baptize me after I'm dead, just in case I don't hear
about it and can't reject you.
I believe the people crying
about it should first prove that they were wronged, and since the person
baptized is dead, I do believe that is a little hard to do.
How
about all the other religions start
baptizing Mormans?
Baptize away, once you are DEAD it is too late, anyone who believes otherwise, well to each his own, that's what this great country is all
about, the freedom to believe IN whatever you want or NOT to believe... but it does NOT give anyone the right to KILL you for not believing what they preach «Muslims»
Acts 2:41 So then, those who received his word were
baptized; and there were added
about three thousand souls.
So when someone got
baptized, and other people observed or heard
about it, they would naturally go ask the person what had changed in their life.
(Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is
baptized will be saved...) NIV 1973) The Ethiopian eunuch heard the good news
about Jesus before he was
baptized.
Shortly after VBS was over, my parents and pastor talked to me
about getting
baptized and sharing with our church family the decision I had made and the importance of coming forth publicly and making this declaration.
Did you know there is a debate
about whether we are supposed to be
baptized «In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» (Matthew 28:19 - 20) OR «in the name of Jesus»?
When people want be
baptized «in the right way,» they argue
about when baptism should take place, how much water is necessary, where the baptism can occur, who can perform the baptism, what actions should be performed during the baptism, and what words need to be said along with the baptism.
Could the Church possibly say that because «the rules»
about the indissolubility of marriage are Catholic rules, they therefore don't apply to non-Catholics, even to
baptized Christian non-Catholics, even when those persons become Catholics and put themselves under the jurisdiction of the Church's teachings?
Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is
about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater,
baptize Rayber's young idiot son.
As an atheist I think it's important to know if your candidate picks his nose and eats the boogers, not that it makes any policy difference, but it is a charachetr difference, and if the candidate promotes his faith which includes
baptizing dead jews whether out of guilt or love, I want to know
about it so I can make an informed character choice on who I give my vote to.
What is Paul talking
about in 1 Corinthians 15:29 when he writes
about being
baptized for the dead?
A reader named Chuck McKnight recently sent in an email asking
about 1 Corinthians 15:29 and Paul's statement
about being «
baptized for the dead.»
I'm a
baptized christian but joined because of friends and wanted to know what religion is all
about.
Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking
about only those believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were
baptized by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking
about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.
It's not talking
about believers whose sins have been forgiven through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus and who have been
baptized into the body of Christ and sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.
Pearls are for tears, too, some people find them a sad reference but my tears when I finally had her safely in my arms tell me something so different and deep
about our tears and the way we are
baptized in them, too, even in the grief and the pain blending with the most powerful love and strength.
Interestingly, while teaching
about the resurrection, Paul reiterated that it did not make sense to
baptize for the dead if the dead rise not at all (1 Corinthians 15:29).
I fought with some distant cousin
about her need to
baptize everyone in our family into a religion that only SHE believed.
At one point,
about 10 years ago, the head of a Holocaust survivors group paid for her time to accumulate a list of 1,000 Holocaust victims who had been
baptized, after the LDS Church claimed the Jewish community was «overreacting to the problem,» says Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist in New Jersey who has been following the issue for 22 years, long before it made headlines.
Unethical or religious freedom??? What
about the LDS practice of Proxy Baptism —
baptizing deceased persons of other religions into the LDS faith without the written consent of the family members of the deceased (proxy LDS baptisms have been performed on past Catholic Popes and other top religious figures).
41 So then, those who had received his word were
baptized; and that day there were added
about three thousand souls.
He was talking to believers (
baptized believers)
about a renewing of their spirit, not
about salvation.
There was constant bickering
about spiritual gifts and their proper use, as well as quarrels
about money, leaders, and who
baptized whom.
As CT noted, Baptist leaders also worried
about the growing number of preschoolers — those under 6 — being
baptized from 2005 — 2010, which was one of the only ages to show growth.
James and John have no idea what they are talking
about, but the Lord does ask them to be
baptized in the same way («baptizein» is Greek for «immerse»).
What
about the practice of the Catholic church of
baptizing babies, Jesus was
baptized an adult, where in the Bible says that a baby has to be
baptized?
When read this way, the first part of verse 20 where Jesus talks
about teaching others is not a «second step» to discipleship, so that first you get
baptized, and secondly you get taught.
When Jesus came to be
baptized by John in the Jordan, He was making a public declaration
about which type of Judaism He thought was best.
God is not up there wringing His hands
about the right words that pastors should say when they
baptize people.
Take, for example, 1 Corinthians 10:2 where Paul writes
about the Israelites being «
baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.»
Gossip, as a church activity without malice, may well be, at its best, the moral casuistry of ordinary people, a primary means of congregational bonding, a source of utterly essential moral data
about ourselves, an everyday means of investigating communally what it means to be
baptized.
In Mark 16, Jesus talks
about the laying on of hands: 16 He who believes and is
baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
I noticed you said, «But after this initial preaching of the Gospel and water baptism followed by Spirit baptism, the baptism of the Spirit comes immediately upon a person believing in Jesus for eternal life, whether or not they get water
baptized» I must loving tell you this isn't what the bible teaches
about baptism.
In 1 Corinthians 10:2 Paul writes
about the Israelites being
baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
The phrase «
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit» may just be another way of saying, «teaching them fully
about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, helping them understand Who God is and live more like God in our lives.»
Wesley understood quite well what his Anglican theology of baptism told him
about the work of God in the
baptized, but he also knew that the adults he now confronted in the cities of England were no longer living out of the grace of baptism.
He is writing
about being overcome or overwhelmed by whatever people are
baptized into.
If Jesus was truly talking
about water baptism in Matthew 28:19 - 20, then why is it that there is not a single example in all of Scripture where someone was water
baptized according to the «formula» of Matthew 28:19?