Sentences with phrase «baptism represented»

Thanks for challenging that girl and asking her if she knew what baptism represented.

Water baptism represented a death to the past and a new life for the future.

This change, of course, is exactly what John's baptism represented for the Jewish people.

Since baptism was a common practice in nearly all religions of that time, and in nearly all cases it represented a break with the past and a new way of living for the future, when someone was baptized the friends and family members would ask what the baptism represented.

The Bible clearly teaches water baptism is necessary to be saved John 3:3 - 5 which Jesus says Water and Spirit Romans 6: 3 - 4 and many many more places you are right about some of the things baptism represents but please take a closer look at why all the conversions in Acts involve water baptism.

Not exact matches

I think that since we practice burial, there is a place for baptism, but maybe with some tweaks which better represent what is going on.

In Judaism, baptism in water represents a death to the past and a new birth to a completely different future.

In this case, baptism for the dead would be our own baptism, representing our passage from being dead in sin to alive in Christ through our full identification with the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Those who hold a doctrine of subsequence often (though not always) maintain that the experience of «speaking in tongues» represents the initial physical evidence of «the baptism of the Holy Spirit.»

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

These are a few examples of symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

I've heard of people putting a small amount of salt on the tongue of the newly baptized believer (actually during the baptism) to represent being salt and light in the community.

Vicarious baptisms are usually performed by LDS youth, often brought to a temple in groups and then repeatedly baptised as proxies for a list of deceased persons; most of the time, the proxy has never heard of the person they are representing.

Through baptism, Jesus declares his readiness for the (political and religious) revolution represented by the kingdom of heaven.

If the Gospel of Matthew represents the Baptist as at first declining to administer the baptism because he feels himself unworthy (ch.