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.
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.
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.
So when someone got
baptized, and
other people observed or heard about it, they would naturally go ask the
person what had changed in their life.
People baptized Christian have slaughtered more people than all other religions, plus atheists, com
People baptized Christian have slaughtered more
people than all other religions, plus atheists, com
people than all
other religions, plus atheists, combined.
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.
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.
It is possible that «the dead» refers not to
other dead
people, but to the
person who is
baptized.
One example: The head «elder» at a church we attended at one time told me I needed to be rebaptized (they counted how many
people got
baptized every year for some report or the
other), and that I needed to submit to his authority.
Marco Polo says that Kublai Khan was not anti-Christian, and that he was convinced that the Christian faith was the best of all religions but the low level of learning he found among the Nestorians and his fear that adherence to any one religion would divide the
people and set the
other religions against the government, prevented him from being
baptized.
The
baptized considered themselves God's privileged
people who could consequently take whatever they wanted from
others for their own well - being.
Unethical or religious freedom??? What about the LDS practice of Proxy Baptism —
baptizing deceased
persons of
other religions into the LDS faith without the written consent of the family members of the deceased (proxy LDS baptisms have been performed on past Catholic Popes and
other top religious figures).
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.
Do you think that
people could be
baptized as in initiated into the kingdom with something
other than water that shows the same demonstration / idea of being immersed into a new life?
Other passages in the New Testament seem to indicate that the Spirit regenerates, indwells,
baptizes, and seals a
person immediately upon their belief in Jesus for eternal life.
Pastors tell of parishioners» children who are in Eckanar and
other New Age movements, of members who also belong to spiritualist and Wicca groups, of
people from Eastern religions who join their churches and are
baptized.
Among
others people she discovered had been
baptized by proxy is President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
Among
other things, he stumbled twice over the names of the small group of
people he was
baptizing at the service.
Current church policy encourages members to
baptize their ancestors, but does not explicitly forbid the baptism of deceased Jews and
people of
other faiths.