Sentences with phrase «baptized person»
A "baptized person" is someone who has undergone the religious act of baptism. Baptism usually involves being immersed in water or having water poured over them, symbolizing purification and acceptance into a specific religious group or faith. Full definition
Sara Urry, the difference is that other religions don't impose their beliefs on other religions while Mormons do by the very act of baptizing people by proxy who would not have consented while they were still living.
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His challenge is stark and stunning: Before ordering that the Gentiles be baptized Peter asks «Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?»
«The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»
It comes directly from the Bible when John the Baptist was baptizing the people in the river after they confessed their sins.
Our team baptized people for five hours to the sounds of EDM and hip - hop.
Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but God's own name.
He didn't even «just baptize people and yell in the desert» (certainly something to do...).
Because we believe in the after life, we believe that those that never had the chance to say «thanks, but no thanks» or «yes I would like to be baptized» will still get that chance in the afterlife, but because they no longer have physical bodies to be baptized themselves a person acts in Proxy for them!
What is more interesting to note and is never clarified in articles like this, is that this cermemony baptizes people into the Mormon Church.
I could never get a straight answer about the policy of baptizing people whose names have appeared in records owned by the LDS Church.
If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.
Seeing these details alive in the lives of other baptized people ignites youthful passion in teens more than any youth event or personal sense of purpose ever could.
«Together with the Synod, I earnestly call upon pastors and the whole community of the faithful to help the divorced, and with solicitous care to make sure that they do not consider themselves as separated from the Church, for as baptized persons they can, and indeed must, share in her life.
If the LDS church baptizes a person without their permission, dead or alive, it's against their will and therefore is FORCED regardless of how you try to sugar - coat it.
I have heard that the Mormons baptize every person who has ever lived.
Baptized people need to get to know the gospel that Christ died and resurrected for them.
Yet since most people (including Christians) do not understand the symbolism, the solution is not to just keep baptizing people since «That is what we've always done.»
the Voices (volume 1) by R. Kendall Soulen Westminster John Knox, 312 pages, $ 30 Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents....
The church of Jesus Christ is the community of baptized persons who are ministers in and to the world.
Jesus tells them to go out and baptize people of all nations and that he will always be with them.
We baptized people are the ones who have singed on for this vision and act toward it.»
Just because a Mormon says they baptized a person after they died does not make that person a Mormon.
Later, much of the conquest of the New World by Christian Europe was justified, and partly motivated, by this goal of baptizing all people.
John was baptizing people, and the priests and Levites understood John's words and actions as belonging to the tradition of the prophet Elijah; yet John did not confess to being a prophet.
He says that although he baptizes people with water, Christ will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY «The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»
God is not up there wringing His hands about the right words that pastors should say when they baptize people.
They baptized people (and rebaptized people) so they could report those statistics to the denomination, which affected the local church's standing within the denomination.
The inclusion of all baptized persons in the Supper is new to Protestants though it has a long history in Eastern Orthodox tradition.
Yes, when I baptize people, the less fanfare the better!
In my church, we baptize people by immersion in a tank.
Nearly all the membership rolls are padded, since, in many churches, all baptized persons are included in membership.
One Sunday at a church I attended in Pennsylvania, the celebrant appeared to think that he was being extremely inclusive when he said, «I welcome all baptized people and Quakers.»