Sentences with phrase «article on baptism»

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The article is saying the the Mormon church is enforcing its policy of not performing vicarious baptisms of holocaust victims and is apologizing and taking corrective action based on a single runaway member doing something that was clearly against the rules.

My favorite part of this article is when they are on the subject of the church's baptism.

If you read the recent articles on the Mormons» baptism of those already deceased, you would be surprised that the language of their ritual is substantively the same as for protestants.

What isn't mentioned much in this article is that according to LDS theology... if the person who has passed on for whom the baptism is being performed chooses not to accept it... it is null and void anyway.

Something not really dwelt upon in this article is also the Mormon belief that these «proxy baptisms» only allow the individual on the other side to accept the baptism as if they had the opportunity to be baptised in this life.

Yes, baptism and communion can resemble magic rites, almost as if we wear certain articles of clothing, use certain substances, say certain words and so on, something magic will happen.

As an example from within the ecumenical movement, the Orthodox position on the interrelationship between the Spirit and Baptism can be quoted from an article entitled «Orthodox Reflections on the Assembly Theme,» where it is affirmed that

In an earlier article I noted that in India, any discussion about baptism and conversion takes on «added significance because of the understanding that after baptism the «converted» person has not only changed his or her religion but also social milieu, habits, customs, and manners, in addition to forfeiting several legal rights, especially with regard to the inheritance of property.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

The poem then goes on to discuss excommunication, baptism, the Mass, behavior in church, payment of tithes, articles of belief, and above all how to conduct confession.