Sentences with phrase «deny baptism»

No human can deny a baptism.

None of us, Peter says, has the moral authority to deny baptism to those who seek it, even if they do not follow the ancient laws.

Based on this «reasoning» no one should be denied baptism.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

Not exact matches

This includes: barring them from serving on leadership teams, refusing them believer's baptism, banning them from taking Communion, denying them involvement in children's or youth work and even asking them not to attend church services any more.

Example number two: Faith only believers deny that water baptism is not essential in order to become saved.

Example number three: More than a few who deny the water baptism is for the forgiveness of sins say that Acts 2:38 has been mistranslated.

I've heard Baptist preachers quote William Booth to indirectly deny the efficacy of infant baptism.

Such differences were denied by the participants in these parishes who, if they countenanced distinctions at all, would confine them to matters of practice (worship patterns, frequency of Scripture reading, baptism) and not faith.

Your second paragraph stating that we do not have the moral authority to deny others the blessings of communion, baptism and marriage leads me to think that maybe that is God's job, agreed?

If you do not believe Jesus is the only way to heaven, then, it makes it very easy to deny that water baptism is essential for salvation.

So on one hand, I wanted to deny his request for baptism on the grounds that it wasn't necessary.

In tender manhood Jesus straight To holy Jordan wendeth; The Holy Ghost from Heaven's gate In dovelike shape descendeth; That thus the truth be not denied, Nor should our faith e» er waver, That the Three Persons all preside, At baptism's holy laver, And dwell with the believer.

The refusal to mean what we say about baptism's inclusiveness is a reflection of a society that denies children full citizenship.

«Peter, though, is strong in confronting those who would deny the sacrament of baptism to the Gentiles, and argues for an acceptance of believers who do not follow the circu - mcision rules of Leviticus (which is also where we find a condemnation of ho - mose - xuality).»

Here Joyce also discusses the changes in Tertullian's thinking with regard to the implications of penance, between the treatises De paenitentia, written while Tertullian was still in the catholic church, where «he had expressly taught that full and entire pardon is secured by penance,» and the later De pudicitia, where he «utterly denies the Church's power to absolve from any sin which deprives a man of the sonship of God conferred on him in baptism.»

It is not our place, it seems, to sort out who should be denied a bond with God and the Holy Spirit of the kind that we find through baptism, communion, and marriage.

Peter, though, is strong in confronting those who would deny the sacrament of baptism to the Gentiles, and argues for an acceptance of believers who do not follow the circumcision rules of Leviticus (which is also where we find a condemnation of homosexuality).

Baptism was not to be denied to those who had demonstrated that they were fulfilling the purpose of the law.

-- Lt. General William Boykin, US Army «Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant — baptism and holy communion — must be denied citizenship.»

If you think Jesus is a good man, a good teacher, or even the son of God, but you deny that He is the only eternal Life Giver, the only Messiah Savior who gives you EVERLASTING Life, you are L O S T. Millions of professing Christians are LOST because they think its Jesus plus good works, water baptism, and / or other beliefs.

The primary accusation against Servetus was that he denied infant baptism and the classical conception of Trinity.

One of my ancestors spent much of their life in a Swiss prison for denying the sanctity of child baptism (annabaptist).