Sentences with phrase «by baptism»

What type of ancestor do we, who by baptism are part of the communion of saints, hope to be?
Those who could acknowledge in faith its claim to possessing the eternal truths could become members of the institution by baptism.
Where once we were initiated by baptism in water, we now acknowledge our baptism by fire.
That is the Christian position to which we are bound by our baptism.
Early Christians in their baptism would descend by steps [20] into the baptistry (as we know from the archaeological remains of Dura Europos) to bring home to them that they were «buried with Christ by baptism into death» (Rom 6:4).
John's baptism with water is to be followed by a baptism with the Holy Spirit — Matthew and Luke add «and with fire.»
People are «incorporated into the Church by baptism,» baptism, therefore, constitutes the sacramental bond of unity existing among all who through it are «reborn `.
Every church should receive all its members by baptism upon the confession of their faith and sins wrought by the preaching of the Gospel, according to the primitive institution and practice.
The Lord has instructed, «And of tenets thou shall not talk, but thou shalt declare repentance and faith on the Savior, and remission of sins by baptism, and by fire, yea, even the Holy Ghost» (Doctrine and Covenants 19:31) It is evident that Mormon authorities are commanding an inadequate representation of Mormonism by intentional concealment of their beliefs.
I have sent the following to my Rep., Anna Eshoo, and to Senators Boxer and Feinstein, to consider introducing a bill in Congress — to stop the desecration and change of people's religious faith posthumously by baptism without the consent of all their descendants or a Federal judge.
As we grow into the world as infants, the exigencies of our physical nature lead us further and further away from the purity of soul suggested by baptism, while habitual responses gain the upper hand over our wish to follow the prompting of our higher nature.
That barrier of space and time is bridged by baptism.
This is why the Bible compares the ark to the death and resurrection of Christ, which atones for sin and provides salvation, as pictured by baptism (1 Peter 3).
The new Temple of our self - offering is Jesus's Risen Body into which the Christian is incorporated by Baptism and of which he partakes in the Eucharist.
The physical circumcision of legalism has be supplanted by baptism into Christ.
Finally, the Proclamation led up to an appeal to the hearers to give their personal assent to the «Good News»; to implement it by turning in repentance and trust to God, who by His «mighty works» had made a new people for Himself; and to signify the same by baptism into the fellowship of the Church, thereby accepting God's forgiveness and entering into new relations with Him.
Certainly no one denied the necessity of an ordained ministry in the church, but at the same time liturgists insisted that the dignitas of priesthood was conferred by baptism and its accompaniments.
All Christians are ordained by their baptism to see broken and disordered situations and to bring into them «the power of God in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in order to rebuild something.»
Of the adults entering the Church in the past year, 83,157 were received by baptism, and 87,799 had previously been baptized in other communions.
It needed to be superseded by baptism indicating one's belief in and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Paul could speak of Christians as being «buried therefore with [Christ] by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life» (Rom.
John's proclamation is followed immediately by the Baptism of Jesus, accompanied by a vision of the Holy Spirit, and the divine voice which acclaims Him as the Son of God.
All who belong to Christ's Church and are joined to the Lord by Baptism and the Eucharist are certain of resurrection to salvation, (Rom.
The gossip of the church family, however, the talk of siblings by baptism, is sanctified.
Assumed a fornicator wants to get baptized, it is clear that he should want to get set free from fornication by baptism into Christ.
A Christian believer is «justified» by the Grace of God ALONE, and NOT even by baptism, let alone the works of the flesh.
It is true, as St. Paul says that Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself to make her holy, making her clean by baptism, but he is waiting to take those souls to himself so that they will be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle, but holy and without blemish (Eph.
Some of the conversations which have, among other matters, considered the issues raised by Baptism, include the conversations between the Anglicans and the Reformed (pp. 132 - 188); the Baptists and the Lutherans (pp. 189 - 216); the Disciples of Christ and the Reformed (pp.
In other words: The biological body of the Christian doesn't get delivered by baptism, it remains sinful (see Romans 7, where St. Paul describes his sinful past made of flesh and blood, his body).
We get metaphysically connected with Christ's death and resurrection by baptism (look Romans 6).
Arguably some of the most ugly consequences of such an exclusive stance in the Church's missionary enterprise, and the consequent urgency to baptize, have been forced or induced «conversions `, signed and sealed by baptism.
This adoption by baptism allowed the family circle to stretch beyond the blood and covenant of the Jews.
What I was trying to argue in my article was this: the celibacy to which some are called by special vocation and the chastity to which all are called by baptism are not two distinct things.
In this century, O. Kandasamy Chetty of the Madras Christian College was a disciple of Christ and kept himself in spiritual fellowship with the fellow - disciples without joining the church by baptism.
All will have the opportunity to accept or reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ and enter into «His Kingdom» by baptism if they so choose.
Just as Israel experienced exile in Egypt, baptism in the Red Sea, and wandering in the wilderness, Matthew depicts Jesus as experiencing exile in Egypt, followed by baptism in the Jordan, followed by wandering in the wilderness.
In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.
At the Easter Vigil, the priest blesses the water in the baptismal font, lowering the lighted Pascal candle into it three times while saying: «May the power of the Holy Spirit, O Lord we pray, come down through your Son into the fullness of this font...» He then holds the candle in the water while continuing ``... so that all who have been buried with Christ by baptism and death may rise again to life with him.»
we become one in them by Baptism.
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