Sentences with phrase «of baptizing people»

Sara Urry, the difference is that other religions don't impose their beliefs on other religions while Mormons do by the very act of baptizing people by proxy who would not have consented while they were still living.

Later, much of the conquest of the New World by Christian Europe was justified, and partly motivated, by this goal of baptizing all people.

The church of Jesus Christ is the community of baptized persons who are ministers in and to the world.

Not exact matches

In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.

The actions of the Mormons who «baptized» dead Jews is still significantly less heinous than the actions of some Roman Catholic Inquisitors who actually exhumed the corpses of some people to put them on «trial» for heresy.

They have to be interviewed to make sure that this is their decision and not their parents although at times people of all ages do get baptized for the wrong reason be they 8 or 58.

But it is equally offensive to Buddhists, Muslims, and to all other people of faith, including Christians who have already been baptized and don't believe they need that sacrament / ordinance again, especially after death.

A living person, often a descendant who has become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, is baptized in behalf of a deceased person.

Paul makes mention of people in the Corinth church doing it, but NEVER does he say it is to BE done and NO WHERE in the Bible does it say someone can be baptized in place of a person who has died.

If you believe what your saying you really haven't been converted and never will It will also be to late for the people you have deceived Unless you actually repent and be properly baptized and do as he says If you love me keep my commandments That does mean including the real Sabbath the 7TH day of the week and not the first day (Sunday) The mark of the beast!

I now baptize all dead people in the religion of Nonsense.

Since that's the ultimate goal of every male Mormon, females can not become gods, the church has to baptize people by proxy here on earth.

Only living persons are to be baptized, for just before Jesus ascension to heaven, he gave the command to his eleven faithful apostles: «Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them... teaching then to observe all the things I have commanded you.»

(John 13:26) Thus, proxy baptisms are not vaid, for the person who is baptized has to make an informed choice as to whether or not he or she desires to do so, to accept the responsibility of following in Jesus «footsteps».

Which by the way, mormons don't claim people baptized via proxy are members of their church either, merely that they have the opportunity to become so.

As far as being baptized for the dead, that's a total waist of the living person's time.

It must come as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.

Both John and Peter called the Jewish people to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins (cf. Luke 3:3 and Acts 2:38).

The prayer said as one is being baptized goes as follows - Call the person by their name and then states, «I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.»

When a person is saved they are baptized into the body of Christ.

If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

It has nothing to do with a person being saved, baptized into the body of Christ, indwelt and sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

So when many people get baptized, they say, «I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.»

The first person to be baptized in Philippi was Lydia, a seller of purple goods.

Could the Church possibly say that because «the rules» about the indissolubility of marriage are Catholic rules, they therefore don't apply to non-Catholics, even to baptized Christian non-Catholics, even when those persons become Catholics and put themselves under the jurisdiction of the Church's teachings?

So we argue and condemn people over the issue of infant baptism vs. adult baptism, baptism by sprinkling vs. baptism by immersion, and whether a person should be baptized in the name of Jesus vs. in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Even John the Baptist seems to have forgotten all that happened at Jesus» baptism, including his own words of testimony that the person he baptized was far greater than he, one whose sandals he was not worthy to unloose.

In some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministry.

Jesus said to his true disciples, following his resurrection: «Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.»

During the Reformation, one group of Christians got so upset that others were doing baptism wrong, that they decided to baptize those other people to death by drowning them.

From the inside I call this molded peculiarity «me»; those on the outside call it «Dick» — not a biological procedure baptized with the theory of soul, but rather an exciting and excitable, knowing, sensing, responding, growing and relational embodiment called person.

People can pray for them, baptize them, do the rite of spring for them and it makes no difference.

This is by no means Mormons doing baptizing for deceased people and saying: «There, now that you are dead and have no choice we are going to offer a baptism for you and you are now a member of our church whether you like it or not» It's not at all like that!

People can ridicule the act of baptizing the dead, but they should not regard the intentions of Mormons as evil, or disrespectful.

No where in scripture does it give an age of when to baptize and Jesus said to baptize «ponta ethnae» (all people).

Beside I think the whole point of Mormon's baptizing dead people is that then they would have a choice to choose or deny the mormon doctrine?????

Also, do they make sure all of the people they baptize in proxy are not gay first?

«The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»

Consider that North American Mission Board president Kevin Ezell today announced that in the most recent year of reporting (2012), the SBC's 2010 church plants baptized 3,394 people.

Seeing these details alive in the lives of other baptized people ignites youthful passion in teens more than any youth event or personal sense of purpose ever could.

Examples of one or other of the two kinds of divine and unchangeable law would be, that a marriage between brother and sister is now invalid independently of the will of the Church; that a validly consummated marriage between baptized persons is indissoluble and that the Church has no power to alter the fact; that the Church can not abolish the fact that there are seven sacraments, nor alter the ultimate features of the Church's own constitution.

At the moment a person is saved many things happen to them including their sins are forgiven, they receive the righteousness of Christ, they are spiritually baptized into the body of Christ and are indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

Should it acknowledge that two previously married persons were suddenly no longer conjoined in a sacrament, or maintain its teaching that a valid marriage between two baptized Christians was indissoluble unless one of the partners died?

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

So they are getting baptized b / c of the dead person, to be with them in the afterlife, but not necessarily out of faith in Christ.

There are some cultural things going on here with the act of baptism, and the fact that family members and servants usually followed the religion of the head of their household, but again, the most straightforward way of reading these texts is that more than one person believed, and those that did believe were baptized.

Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead?

As a result, multitudes of people believed, and those who believed were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus (8:16).

Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but God's own name.

Third, it can not be assumed that all of the self - identified Christian people (baptized, born - again, converted, members — whatever criteria or name you want to use) gathered in these churches are subject to the influence of the Holy Spirit.