I don't buy your stretch saying that they are all, «a bond with God and the Holy Spirit of the kind that we find through baptism, communion, and marriage,» and even if I did, you would need to support that marriage falls under that same
category as baptism instead of just telling us it does.
Not exact matches
Which means that most discussion of
baptism as it relates to our eternal destiny is suffering from a
category mistake.
However, phenomenologically
baptism belongs both to the
category of ablution rites, in which water is used
as a symbol of religious purification,
as well
as to the rites of initiation, involving a symbolic dying to the old self and rising to a new state of existence.