Honestly, I am not sure I have ever heard that particular
view on baptism before.
But I go to a Presbyterian church and they have a different
view on baptism, that it's a sign that is given to children too.)
sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist
view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.
While we may not drown people because of
their views on baptism, it is not uncommon for one group of Christians to condemn another group of Christians to everlasting hell because the other group has a different view on baptism.
For example, the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS)
views on Baptism, Lay Ministry, the Trinity, Theosis, Grace vs. Works, the Divinity of Jesus Christ comport more closely with Early Christianity than any other denomination.
For example, the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS)
views on Baptism, Lay Ministry, the Trinity, Theosis, Grace vs. Works, the Divinity of Jesus Christ are closer to Early Christianity than any other denomination.
Not exact matches
It's for those who are interested in a totally different take
on the
baptism of the Spirit and spiritual gifts than the Pentecostal
view and the cessationist
view.
This week, an American boy's
baptism video has reached over five million
views on Facebook.
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.
On several occasions she described this and other
views to priests with a
view to
baptism, but either she was dissatisfied with their responses or
baptism was refused.
But
on either
view,
baptism involves a lifelong engagement to grow in union with Christ and labor in the service of the gospel.
A common
view of how adoptionism became incarnationism is that the moment of «adoption,» which was originally the resurrection, was, as the early communities reflected
on the meaning of Jesus, moved forward into the historical life, and there pushed to an earlier and earlier point — from transfiguration, to
baptism, to birth — until finally it was pushed out of the earthly life entirely and Jesus was conceived of as having been the Son of God before his birth.
So,
on this
view, if someone disagrees with them about the millennium, about infant
baptism, about the role of women in ministry, they are quickly labeled a heretic.
For a candid
view on the Orthodox and their understanding of
baptism in an ecumenical context see Merja Merras, «Baptismal Recognition and the Orthodox Churches, in Root and Saarinen, eds., Baptism and the Unity of the Chur
baptism in an ecumenical context see Merja Merras, «Baptismal Recognition and the Orthodox Churches, in Root and Saarinen, eds.,
Baptism and the Unity of the Chur
Baptism and the Unity of the Church, op.
On other teachings, such as the church's
views of
baptism and communion, agreement was equally low.
But, so far as I can see, the only claims that Paul makes about any distinctiveness or originality concern (1) his conviction that he was specially called by God to conduct a mission to gentiles, and (2) his
view of the terms
on which gentiles were to be received as full co-religionists with Jewish believers (
baptism / faith in Jesus without taking
on Jewish observance of Torah).
Jordan is a journey through religious and ancient history: from Mount Nebo, burial site of Moses, from where he
viewed the «Promised Land» to Bethany,
baptism site of Jesus
on the river Jordan; from Madaba's mosaic map of ancient Palestine to Jerash, best preserved Roman city of the Decapolis and known as «Pompeii of the East»; from the evocative Desert Castles of the Umayyad caliphs, used as a refuge by T.E. Lawrence to the Crusader castle of Kerak
on the King's Highway.