Sentences with phrase «though baptism»

In fact, even though baptism is sacred, since when does something sacred have to be somber?

Jesus will not actually baptize Levi (John 4:1 - 2), even though baptism is required.

Not exact matches

That's why we provide these proxy baptisms, to as many as we can find who've passed on, so, if they accept that message that's been preached to them (and they have the choice to accept or reject it) in the spirit world, the proxy baptism performed for them will be in affect as though they'd had it done for themselves while here on earth.

Though his antics are pretty irreverent (especially the fake baptisms), Klimkowski doesn't really have anything negative to say about Osteen, and his gag is mostly pretty lighthearted.

Even though Marin Luther introduced some reform from the roman catholic system, he was very much a roman catholic in that he favored the pope and had people burned at the stake who did not believe in infant baptism!

Though the fourth Gospel does not narrate it, it refers to the baptism of Jesus.

Not only, as we have seen, did the disciples suspect it — though forbidden to speak of it until later — but the demons, with supernatural insight, recognized him; and at the Baptism and the Transfiguration there were visible foregleams of his coming glorification.

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

It was Mark who began this process of transvaluation, as far as we can make out at this distance, by insisting that Jesus became Messiah at his baptism — though perhaps the evangelic tradition had already received this interpretation in the Roman community, or even, earlier still, in Palestine or in the early Gentile church.

If the interpreter remains at the level of text for the hermeneutical key, these depictions easily convey God's beneficence and protection - themes that suggest baptism, though not necessarily.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbles.

Though I will be arguing for similar (or parallel) ceremonies for our own day with convey similar meaning as did baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Barbara Pitkin writes that «Calvin himself appears not to have advocated the use of physical force in response to sin in children; though he recognized the need for parental discipline, his explicit remedies were baptism and education (albeit strict and structural) into faith and morality.»

It is not a good idea to pick babies up by the ears or to drop them, but the history and theology of infant baptism are far more important than the technique, though not unrelated to the method used.

We have known each other for about two years, and though we agree on many basic doctrines of Christianity, we don't agree on everything, and we definitely do not see eye to eye on some central Christian practices like baptism, the Lord's Supper, and church attendance.

It was thought that the significance of baptism was not in the symbol of going under the water and then rising back up as though from the dead, but in the power of the water itself after it had been blessed by a priest.

Its theology conforms to the New Testament teachings, though there is an overemphasis on the efficacy of baptism.

I agreed to be baptized though I made it clear I did not believe and told them honestly the baptism didn't really affect me.

Baptism was freeing somehow, even though I never ever ever want to do that again.

The Lutheran understanding of the Christian as «at the same time righteous and sinner» is set forth, as is the Catholic view that «all that is sin «in the proper sense»» is taken away in baptism, though «an inclination (concupiscence)» toward sin remains.

A. Persons, such as infants, who have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism, can not enter heaven; but it is the common belief they will go to some place similar to Limbo, where they will be free from suffering, though deprived of the happiness of heaven.

Evidently, he had at least a smattering of Christianity, though Luke says that he knew only the baptism of John the Baptist.

«It is our common Baptism that places us in real, if imperfect, communion with other Christians so that the initiation of the baptized, though not an ecumenical activity, requires a particular ecumenical sensitivity.»

Those who hold a doctrine of subsequence often (though not always) maintain that the experience of «speaking in tongues» represents the initial physical evidence of «the baptism of the Holy Spirit.»

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.

Baptisms hit a 60 - year low for the denomination, though still totaled more than 330,000.

Like polygamy (which they claim to no longer practice though it is widely known many, many do with impunity) these baptisms are just something they should not be doing, but they will continue because the Mormons just don't care.

As Southern Baptists prepare for next week's annual meeting, LifeWay's Annual Church Profile indicates that though membership continues to slide and baptisms and churches barely increased, giving saw strong growth.

Though water baptism is a great and wonderful symbol, it is not immediately understood by our surrounding culture as it was in New Testament times.

This is from some notes of mine «Paul could say the Israelites were baptized into Moses even though they did not undergo literal water baptism in the name of Moses.

Though the church regularly conducts proxy baptisms for dead, in what it calls an attempt to give everyone a chance to accept salvation through Jesus, it has a 1990s - era policy against conducting such baptisms for Holocaust victims.

«Peter, though, is strong in confronting those who would deny the sacrament of baptism to the Gentiles, and argues for an acceptance of believers who do not follow the circu - mcision rules of Leviticus (which is also where we find a condemnation of ho - mose - xuality).»

Honestly, I suspect the practice (though potentially offensive in any context) only really became the subject of a firestorm because the church's baptism «projects» involved already sensitive territory, like the Holocaust.

In the fallen world order, Original Sin blocks our primal integration into grace and the gift of divine faith is now given in the first nascent dawning of personal knowledge and love of God as we are drawn into the Life of the Trinity by the action of Christ though the Church at baptism.

Peter, though, is strong in confronting those who would deny the sacrament of baptism to the Gentiles, and argues for an acceptance of believers who do not follow the circumcision rules of Leviticus (which is also where we find a condemnation of homosexuality).

Three of the high - water marks of 20th - century ecumenism reflect this dominance: the WCC's New Delhi statement on «the unity we seek» (1961), Vatican II's Unitatis redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism, 1964) and the WCC's Faith and Order document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, which, though not given its finishing touches until just before its publication in 1982, reflects in its substance agreements that had been reached a decade or more earlier.

It may well be true that no church perfectly embodies all I have suggested (though, looking back at the article, I do not think I set the practical bar very high: decent liturgy shaped by theology, helpful catechisms, good preaching, baptism, Lord's Supper, a basic grasp of history etc.).

Further compounding these consequences in India and elsewhere, has been the fact that conversion and baptism, though fundamentally consequences of the exercise of personal conscience have assumed marked social and political overtones and repercussions which have enhanced «communalistic «tendencies both within and outside the Church.

The synoptics stress baptism, even to the point that Jesus submitted to it, though he was without sin and really did not need it.

Though it is more than one word, the Mormon practice of «baptism for the dead» is based on one verse out of 1 Corinthians.

Being a nominal Presbyterian, Methodist, or Baptist is easier; though there are some outward expectations like baptism (among credobaptists) that can mark a spiritual commitment.

What motivated the Apostles and the whole history of Christian missions was knowing from divine revelation that the human race is lost, eternally lost without Christ, and even though it is possible for people to be saved, under certain very stringent conditions, without explicit faith and baptism, very often this is not actually the case.

As Dr. John Baillie writes, «Too often the temptation of Christians has been, in the poignant words of a recent writer, to leave it all «to one great priestly act, one baptism, one cup of woe, though at the heart of all our worship are the words, Drink ye all of it.»»

Within, though, Curry's Baptism in Kansas hangs next to an equally ecstatic religious community bathed in a blue light from Archibald Motley, the black artist in Chicago.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all...» (Ephesians 4:4 - 6); «The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts and though its parts are many, they form one body.