Sentences with phrase «committed after baptism»

The reality of the washing away of sins in baptism has been taught since the earliest days, but the teaching about forgiveness has developed: «The power of baptism to remit sins was so great that rigorists held that sins committed after baptism were possibly unforgiveable, and this motivated some people — Constantine but also future saints such as Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostum — to delay receiving it.»

But what about sins committed after baptism?

In the third century Church fathers like Tertullian and Cyprian held that sins committed after baptism dishonour God and that we need to offer him some «satisfaction» by way of compensation.

It also makes a distinction between greater and lesser sins committed after baptism.

These two sacraments can be understood as closely linked to the two-fold meaning of salvation which we have already considered — penance leading to the forgiveness of sin committed after baptism, and the Eucharist leading to the fullness of God's own life.

Not exact matches

CNN: After Anne Frank baptism, Mormons vow to discipline members Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church policy.