Sentences with phrase «baptizing these people who»

The result was that pastors often baptized people who barely understood the faith.

I have heard that the Mormons baptize every person who has ever lived.

The church of Jesus Christ is the community of baptized persons who are ministers in and to the world.

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?»

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In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.

The actions of the Mormons who «baptized» dead Jews is still significantly less heinous than the actions of some Roman Catholic Inquisitors who actually exhumed the corpses of some people to put them on «trial» for heresy.

But it is equally offensive to Buddhists, Muslims, and to all other people of faith, including Christians who have already been baptized and don't believe they need that sacrament / ordinance again, especially after death.

Do people NOT KNOW that the reason the Morman's have the biggest (and growing) private genealogy database in the WORLD is so that they can baptize ANYONE who has died!!??!! And they do.

A living person, often a descendant who has become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, is baptized in behalf of a deceased person.

Paul makes mention of people in the Corinth church doing it, but NEVER does he say it is to BE done and NO WHERE in the Bible does it say someone can be baptized in place of a person who has died.

How many Christian denominations offer that much personal choice to people who were baptized as infants?

It is a fact that Mormons baptize dead people, even those, such as holocaust survivors, who would be deeply offended by the notion.

How can you NOT understand why people (Jews) who were persecuted for their faith by Christians would NOT be offended by having their martyred icons «baptized» by Christians in order to «save them?»

(John 13:26) Thus, proxy baptisms are not vaid, for the person who is baptized has to make an informed choice as to whether or not he or she desires to do so, to accept the responsibility of following in Jesus «footsteps».

If water baptism makes people Christians, then how does one explain the people I know who were baptized * to please their girlfriend?

When I visited a young man who called the church to say he had AIDS and wished to be baptized, he told me that I was the second person in three months to have entered his apartment.

In baptism, the person who is baptized is anointed with oil.

We baptized people are the ones who have singed on for this vision and act toward it.»

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.

We believe simply that there were many people that lived here who had they had the chance to hear our Gospel would have liked to have been baptized in our church!

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

It is possible that «the dead» refers not to other dead people, but to the person who is baptized.

As a result, multitudes of people believed, and those who believed were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus (8:16).

The baptized considered themselves God's privileged people who could consequently take whatever they wanted from others for their own well - being.

pastmorm - The 14 million members are people living today who were personally baptized.

... i feel that people who try tell me i'm not a «real» christian (most common reason: i'm not baptized and rarely partake in communion) believe that.

Instructions on how to use and contribute to the database grew out of a 1995 agreement with Jewish groups that were horrified to find that people who died because of their faith were being baptized by proxy in Mormon ceremonies.

To be sure, for the Jewish people, who have experienced their fair share of forced conversions over the centuries (think the Spanish Inquisition), the suggestion that victims like Holocaust victim Anne Frank or Pearl might be baptized after death can be horribly offensive.

P.S. if you had really been committed to baptizing your baby in the Faith, why would you choose as Godparents people who have turned away from it?

After this, Jesus and some of his disciples went out into the Judean wilderness and started to baptize Jewish people who came to them (3:22 - 4:3).

On the Day of Pentecost, Peter invited the Jewish people who responded to his message to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins.

This sort of unsolicited proselytizing is no different from those Mormons who posthumously baptize people like Anne Frank.

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.

The judge pointed to the pastor's testimony that «in accordance with the belief that baptism is a public declaration of faith, it is the long - standing custom and practice of the church each week to report in the Sunday bulletin the name of any person who was baptized the previous Sunday.»

A person who is alive is no different in any way once they are «baptized».

So for the believer who is baptized in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit now lives on the inside of that person.

The people who were watching and observing to see what changes occurred in the lives of those who had been baptized were impressed and encouraged by the changes they saw, and wanted to participate in this growing community which represented the values and goals of the rule and reign of God as exemplified in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Fortunately I do beleive in Jesus and God I have been Baptized and have steered away from sinning on purpose, I can not sin on purpose, if I do sin then it is out of my control, God Have mercy on people like you who actually beleive in such a horrible place.

With this reading, someone who is «baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» has become fully identified with the Trinitarian God, so that when people see us, they see God.

There were also numerous people who had questions about Jesus and this new way of life that many people were being baptized into.

So your god knowingly put souls into people who had no chance of being baptized or hearing the gospels before they dies.

Pastors tell of parishioners» children who are in Eckanar and other New Age movements, of members who also belong to spiritualist and Wicca groups, of people from Eastern religions who join their churches and are baptized.

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

Any gay person who promises to repent of all sin, including gay behavior, can be baptized.

Just before Acts 2:42 we read, «So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added» (2:41).

And these Moron tards can simply modify their procedures to not require a body or a location but could do it all in a single room in a single ceremony if they wanted and «baptize» all the billions of dead people who have ever died or will die, since it's all make - believe anyway.

The first is the fact that there are millions upon millions of people who died without having the opportunity to hear the full Gospel for themselves and be baptized.

The passage I cited is: the church members were arguing over who had the «right» to instruct them, according to the person by which they had been baptized.

Ever wonder why they think it's okay to baptize a dead person who never indicated a desire to have this done?