We get metaphysically connected with Christ's death and
resurrection by baptism (look Romans 6).
Not exact matches
The references to
baptisms for the dead is
by Paul — IN SUPPORT — of his argument that the
resurrection is a reality.
Really, what I'm saying is that I have no systematic theological step -
by - step delineation about
baptism but I know I love the very mystery of it, the
resurrection of it, the belonging of it, and yes, wait for it, the power of it.
Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about
baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000
baptism is that they had been taught
by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the
resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in
Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000
Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??
He ends
by saying that
baptism allows us to conform to Christ's
resurrection — which is how we are raised into eternal life.
Into the brief period of which we have a record are compressed his
baptism by John the Baptist — a prophet of the Old Testament stamp — his time of solitary meditation and temptation in the wilderness, the calling of his twelve most intimate disciples, his going about with them healing and teaching in Galilee and its environs, the journey to Jerusalem and his triumphal entry, the stormy events of passion week, his crucifixion, and
resurrection.
In the moment, when a Catholic realizes the connection between his infant
baptism and the gospel, he becomes a Protestant or Christian: He follows Jesus in daily life
by the power of Jesus death and
resurrection.
By faith and
baptism the power of Jesus death and
resurrection is dedicated to you.
He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «
baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed
by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death
by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his
resurrection from the dead.
By the time we get to verse 29, Paul makes a point about those in Corinth who apparently were making
baptism arrangements for the dead, but didn't even believe in
resurrection.
21 The like figure whereunto even
baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ...
This freedom which is Christ and which he gives is appropriated
by the man who obeys the call to this freedom in faith and through the
baptism which is its expression, submitting himself to the event that opens the prison of the world; namely the incarnation, death and
resurrection of the Son.
All who belong to Christ's Church and are joined to the Lord
by Baptism and the Eucharist are certain of
resurrection to salvation, (Rom.
When we notice, then, that the Fourth Gospel begins not with the
baptism and birth, but with the eternal Logos, who «was in the beginning with God,» it is not unnatural to decide that belief in the pre-existence of Jesus was the culmination of a process of exalting the earthly career which began with the fact of the
resurrection and moved backward step
by step till not only the whole of the earthly life was included but a divine pre-existence was affirmed as well.
Instituted
by the Lord himself,
baptism,
by which one participates in the mystery of his death and
resurrection, involves conversion, faith, the remission of sin, and the gift of grace.»
By baptism the power of Jesus death and
resurrection is dedicated to us.
In
baptism we «take on an identity shaped
by the overwhelmings of creation, death,
resurrection, and the Holy Spirit.
So, for instance, the landmark ecumenical document
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, developed
by the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission, treats the meaning of the Lord's Supper under five headings: thanksgiving, memorial of Christ's death and
resurrection, invocation of the Spirit, communion of the faithful, and feast of the future fulfillment of God's reign.
Nicodemus has begun to learn of the Savior's
baptism of death and
resurrection, transfigured
by Spirit into eternal life.