Sentences with phrase «how baptism»

Like addicts ripped from bondage in the world of secrets and shadows, we move slowly, one day or even one moment at a time, which is exactly how baptism works.

Conscious as he is of his own moral responsibility, he can not conceive how baptism in water can convey a mysterious something which is henceforth the agent of all his decisions and actions.

I'll probably think too much about how I love to give birth in water, how baptism and water pull me into relief like nothing else.

THATS HOW BAPTISM SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD.

Not exact matches

-- I don't want your salvation or baptism, MORONS (wow, how close is mormon to moron)

How much information do you need on someone to do a proxy baptism?

If being a «liberated Christian» means separating oneself from the body of the faithful, you may still be a member of Christ through baptism, but how «living» you are is another question.

They have no knowledge of life yet, so how can they possibly receive the sacrament of baptism?

How about the very fact that they perform proxy baptisms of the dead?!

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

How much that symbol may be enriched if the infant, held there for baptism in the arms of the church, is sometimes held in female arms.

This is how Luke describes the baptism of Jesus.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

He also expressed a personal opinion that it could be dropped if necessary and he went on to show how this would in no way compromise the necessity of baptism for salvation.

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.

In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right words need to be said in order for the magic spell to actually work.

So if baptism saves us, how can it be true that eternal life is received by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone, apart from works?

This post will briefly summarize how to understand the words «baptism» and «save.»

If this is so, how do you reconcile the contradictions which seem to arise (for example, rejecting communion and baptism)?

When, therefore, we find them also possessing sacraments, fairly magical in their efficacy — especially baptisms, whether of water or of blood, and sacred meals that conferred union with the deity — the query inevitably rises in how far in these regards they influenced Christianity.

Instead, Jesus is offering the Living Water to the Samaritan woman in a story that explicitly identifies how Jesus» baptism differs from John's.

But if the basic biblical images of baptism and the Lord's Supper are carefully studied, it will be seen how much more faithfully the newer rites echo them then did those services to which we have been accustomed.

But also there is much that has — let us focus on how we can compassionately explain these revealed truths to the parents of infants who die without baptism.

There was always lots of talk about infant baptism and how, like circumcision, it was a badge or sign of one's membership in the holy community, the people of God.

The question is not «How little water can we use and still have a true baptism?»

As I explain to my audiences after I ask how many of them know the date of their baptism (average «yes» response: 3 percent of any group), baptism and the new evangelization, baptism and mission, go together.

He ends by saying that baptism allows us to conform to Christ's resurrection — which is how we are raised into eternal life.

Then, in the reading from Acts, Peter tells Cornelius about «the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil; and God was with him.»

This is how, for example, baptism by sprinkling began.

Given this, how can you consider method of baptism non-essential but the nature of the Trinity essential?

Addressing the long discussed issue of how old someone needs to be to have a believer's baptism, Driscoll said there was no clear answer and each case should be treated differently.

Yes, by all means, let us maintain, undergird, and strengthen our precious Baptist distinctives: our commitment to a regenerate church membership, believers» baptism by immersion in the name of the triune God, our stand for unfettered religious liberty, and all the rest» but let us do this not so that people will say how great the Baptists are but rather what a great Savior the Baptists have, what a great God they serve.

Catholics need to get some education about their baptism and how it is connected with the gospel and the faith.

You know the thing that happened throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, after the Baptism that John proclaimed: Jesus of Nazareth — how God anointed him with holy Spirit and power: who went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him; and we ourselves are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they killed by hanging on a tree.

Not sure how Mormons misunderstand baptism.

How we tore families apart, how we treated people that wouldn't convert and how numbers where higher than god when it came to baptisHow we tore families apart, how we treated people that wouldn't convert and how numbers where higher than god when it came to baptishow we treated people that wouldn't convert and how numbers where higher than god when it came to baptishow numbers where higher than god when it came to baptisms.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

As for points 2 and 3: 2) how else are those that died without baptism supposed to go to heaven?

No matter how many times the Bible states in plain, simple language that God forgives sins in (water) Baptism, Baptists and evangelicals will refuse to believe this since it contradicts their concept of faith.

Many Christian traditions believe that a real, literal change takes place when we participate in sacraments like communion or baptism, though we disagree on how that change works.

A Year of Faith is a time set aside by the Church to focus on the meaning of our baptism» in other words, who we are, what we believe, and how we're called to act as a Christian community.

Really Media, the only people that believe in proxy baptisms are mormons, the rest of the world doesn't and that it will not effect anything in the live after... so how really cares about this story... it is just a bunch of anti-Romney (Mormons) trying to get it so that the rest of the US do not vote for Romney.

proxy baptisms are only for deceased people, so how could you have been baptized by proxy?

«This is the first case in the United States in which a court has affirmed that how a church conducts its baptisms is only the business of the church and is not subject to interference by the civil courts,» attorney John Tucker said.

Listing those who have been baptized publicly «is a key part of how the church requires a conversion and baptism to be «visible» to the world.»

It was great when my atheist parents supported me at my baptism with tears in their eyes showing how much meaning it had for them.

You discuss looking at burial rituals to consider new ways to present the symbolism of baptism, but regardless of how a society buries it's dead you will never find a society on earth that isn't familiar with the concept of drowning; thus death by water has a universal power not limited to any culture.

A common view of how adoptionism became incarnationism is that the moment of «adoption,» which was originally the resurrection, was, as the early communities reflected on the meaning of Jesus, moved forward into the historical life, and there pushed to an earlier and earlier point — from transfiguration, to baptism, to birth — until finally it was pushed out of the earthly life entirely and Jesus was conceived of as having been the Son of God before his birth.

When someone asks how they should be baptized you reply, «Which baptism, water, Spirit, Fire, etc?»

Depending on how you read these passages, John could be speaking of one baptism or two: a baptism of the Holy Spirit upon believers and a baptism of fiery judgment upon unbelievers (cf. Matt 13:25 - 30, or one baptism of the Holy Spirit which will come with fire upon believers (cf. Acts 2:3).