Sentences with word «unbaptized»

"Unbaptized" refers to someone who has not undergone the Christian religious ritual of baptism, where water is used to symbolize purification and initiation into the faith. It means they have not been formally accepted into the Christian community through this ceremony. Full definition
During EA's «Naughty and Nice» holiday press event yesterday, Executive Producer Jonathan Knight revealed that Dante's Inferno will reward players for killing unbaptized babies.
However, when Augustine tells us that the whole human race is a «mass of perdition»; that we inherit from Adam and Eve not only their sin but their guilt as well; that original sin is rather like a spiritual venereal disease passed from generation to generation through the concupiscence of the sex act; that the only «cure» is baptism and that the road to hell is paved with the bones of unbaptized infants — something has gone terribly wrong.
They are metaphysical concepts left over from premodern, non-biblical philosophies, something Jenson called the «unbaptized god» of the Greeks.
I guess Dante's Inferno has an achievement called «Bad Nanny,» where gamers earn it by killing unbaptized babies in hell.
Among the many ironies punctuating Catholic history, one of the more curious is the spectacle of theologians, dedicated to expounding doctrine on the God who «is love» (1 John 4:8), insisting that infants who die unbaptized will never see God.
I just unbaptized all the heretofore baptized dead Jewish folks in a nice little ceremony out behind my wood shed.
Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»
There was no «religious issue in the campaign, despite the fact that the candidates were unbaptized Dwight David Eisenhower and nonchurchgoing Unitarian Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr..
Some bad habit, pet vanity, ambition, or bank account remains unbaptized, uncommitted.
Limbo is an intermediate state for those, such as unbaptized infants or the righteous who lived before Christ, who deserve neither the reward of heaven nor the punishment of hell.
Adding to the difficulty are the Perron's five unbaptized little girls — easy prey for evil.
I know at one time they taught that unbaptized babies went there which is really morbid.
But criticism of such an «unbaptized God» does not dispense the theologian from arguing for the philosophical validity of the alternative he proposes.
An Achievement (and presumably Trophy) in the upcoming Dante's Inferno is «Bad Nanny» which is awarded when you «slaughter an undetermined number of unbaptized infants».
This question of identity can be important According to the 1928 Church of England Prayer Book, the service of Burial was not to be used for the unbaptized.
The unbaptized also belong to God, but they have had no public opportunity to announce and celebrate that fact; thus they are apt to feel no motivation to act on its implications.
I'm pretty sure that «limbo» for the unbaptized was in the catechism (and as such WAS official church teaching), back in the day.
I'm not interested in defending Bell's book in its entirety — I thought some of his exegesis was sloppy — but the questions he raises about the destiny un-evangelized are not that different from the questions traditionally raised by Baptists about the assumption within other Christian traditions that unbaptized babies spend eternity in hell.
The Protestant impulse among Lutherans, the «progressive» ones, it seems to me is to find the next new big thing to replace whatever was the last new big thing (communion of the unbaptized is coming, betcha).
You should go to the Freedom From Religion website and download the «unbaptize» form because you are already «forcing» supernatural crap down your kid's throat.
If an unborn, unbaptized baby dies does it rise to heaven, or suffer and burn in hell?
I am happy to admit that there are exceptions, but how often has one met otherwise intelligent people who have dismissed the whole Christian Faith because, for instance, they can not believe that the first chapter of Genesis is true to science, that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, that unbaptized babies go to hell, or that heaven is above the bright blue sky!
The soul could belong to God; but the unbaptized right hand could wield a sword as freely as before.
Christian, or an unbaptized person in a Catholic wedding ceremony.
I'm thinking of Dante's Inferno, where you're slaughtering the little demons who are unbaptized babies who died.
She drowned when rowing with a group of Englischers, and her unbaptized wayward ways mean she has surely been kept out of heaven.

Phrases with «unbaptized»

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