Sentences with phrase «passages on baptism»

I will be heading in this direction after we look at a few Scripture passages on baptism over the course of the next week.

So in looking at the Scripture passages on baptism, we will first try to determine in context what kind of immersion or re-identification is in view.

Not exact matches

We will be looking at these passages: Matthew 28:19 - 20, Mark 16:16; several Scriptures on baptism from the Book of Acts, Romans 6, Colossians 2:12, and 1 Peter 3:21.

Funerals, weddings, and other religiously orchestrated rites of passage (e.g., christenings, baptisms, showers, hospital visits) thus maintain the stability of everyday life by providing occasions on which the nonordinary can be experienced.

Because we disagree on the proper method of baptism, the role of women in the church or the proper interpretation of a certain Biblical passage does not make one of us correct and the other a «false teacher».

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).

The baptismal reference, then, is not just to baptism as a salvific event in its covenant pledge but also to baptism as protecting one from evil spiritual forces... One has in this work a massive piece of scholarship that seems to have laid to rest some options for interpreting 1 Pet 3 and certainly must be consulted by anyone working on this passage in the future.

A literacy - rich RE assessment, based on the Christian rite of passage, infant baptism.