Sentences with phrase «understand about the baptism»

what I don; t understand about the baptism of the dead is if it's main purpose is to make dead unsaved souls enter heaven then why even the need for Satan or Hell?

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Many folks do not seem to understand some key points about baptism for the dead.

All of the posts so far show an extreme lack of understanding of Mormonism and it's doctrines about baptisms for the dead.

Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

The period between a Pulaya candidate's acceptance of Anglican instruction and actual baptism, which usually extended to about two years, was considered a time of «probation» during which the candidate had to sufficiently demonstrate «strictly consistent Christian conduct» revealing a proper understanding of Christian fundamentals.

Let's think about the intelligibility of, for example, baptism: Does anyone ever fully understand the implications of baptism?

Tomorrow we will look at some other tricky texts about baptism that become more clear when we understand the definition of baptism as «immersion into» or «identified with.»

While the deep symbolism of baptism is still present in the ritual, it is not naturally understood or comprehended by the average Christian, let alone the person who knows little about Jesus and Scripture.

Wesley understood quite well what his Anglican theology of baptism told him about the work of God in the baptized, but he also knew that the adults he now confronted in the cities of England were no longer living out of the grace of baptism.

Or were confused about its understanding of how Christians ought to live the truth of their baptism.

In an earlier article I noted that in India, any discussion about baptism and conversion takes on «added significance because of the understanding that after baptism the «converted» person has not only changed his or her religion but also social milieu, habits, customs, and manners, in addition to forfeiting several legal rights, especially with regard to the inheritance of property.

For the symbolism of baptism to work properly, the symbolism has to be understood not only by those getting baptized, but also by those who observer the baptism, including the surrounding non-Christian culture of friends, neighbors, and coworkers who hear about it.

But once we are freed from the obsession to baptize, to «save `, and our concern becomes the much wider concern of God to bring about God's Kingdom, the obvious relativization of baptism opens the way to understand the Church not as an Institution of Salvation, but as a movement of Jesus followers at the service of all God's people and God's creation.

Once we are freed from the obsession to baptize, to «save `, and our concern becomes the much wider concern of God to bring about God's Kingdom, the obvious relativization of baptism opens the way to understand the Church not as an Institution of Salvation, but as a movement of Jesus followers at the service of all God's people and God's creation.