Sentences with phrase «what baptism»

This change is in sorts what baptism is a picture of: The sudden death of the Old and the resurrection to the new life in Christ.

Many adults who attend church faithfully nevertheless would be hard - pressed to say what their baptism means to them.

Thus, in a context where the question of Indian - Christian identity is under pressure from different sides, one is justified in asking what baptism, for example, has really resulted in and how it has been interpreted and understood.

Thanks for challenging that girl and asking her if she knew what baptism represented.

Baptismal liturgies vary widely, and each makes its own contribution to our understanding of what baptism means.

But whether John was an Essene or not (I tend to think not), the point that in the days of John, Jesus, Peter, Paul, and the early church, people knew what baptism meant.

Paul explains what baptism is: when we are baptized we are baptized into the likeness of Christ's death on the cross, burial in the tomb, and resurrection on the third day.

Since baptism was a common practice in nearly all religions of that time, and in nearly all cases it represented a break with the past and a new way of living for the future, when someone was baptized the friends and family members would ask what the baptism represented.

If you knew what Baptism was you would not put any special thing to it.

Intercession, so understood, moves those one loves from a private closet into the open air; it ought to continue what baptism began as it releases those one loves into a more spacious life.

This painting is what baptism feels like, and I think the image describes it much better than my words ever will.

Wait a second, Mark, do you understand what baptism, communion, and marriage means?

To Thomas Peterson A quote from your response says «The mormon's are hijacking their dead and not only baptizing them but converting them to mormonism — that's what a baptism is.»

Not exact matches

XAV — «Christ himself was baptized to show us that we all need baptism, even he needed baptism not because he was sinful or needed sins removed but to give us an example of what we need to do on this earth, and not only did he get baptized but he did it at the hands of john the baptist who held the authority to baptize at that time.»

As to the argument that since Jewish people do not believe in baptism — thus what difference does it make... Yes — we don't believe in it's effectiveness as a spiritual rite, but we know that it is NOT meaningless.

Rather, what we are asked in baptism is whether we believe in God the Father who created us, in God the Son who redeemed us, and in God the Holy Spirit who dwells in us and who is the Lord and giver of divine life.

When you read the context and see that Paul was speaking on the subject of those who don't believe in the resurrection, but believed in baptism as Christians, you realize that he was saying that what is the point of baptism if you are only going to end up dead.

And what really gets me are Jewish people who convert to Mormonism and then do their best geneology so as to submit their own dead ancestors for baptism.

I say to the Mormon baptism of Anne Frank... So what!

Most Christian faiths consider lost anyone who is not baptized or who has not accepted Christ (which is what someone who has received baptism effectively signifies).

I only gave them an opportunity to accept or reject what many Christians believe is essential to salvation... baptism.

tickled I confirm that what poquimoqui said, Baptisms are performed individually on behalf of the deceased, however the individual acting as proxy will end up doing so again for each individual.

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.

So what changed by this baptism?

I think that since we practice burial, there is a place for baptism, but maybe with some tweaks which better represent what is going on.

Fortunately they keep the sacramental baptism, but unfortunately that is yet all, what they keep.

I do not feel that you have proved your point, but rather much of what you have written actually could be used to promote the re-institution of water baptism.

I know what they charge for a baptism, a wedding, and a funeral.

Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism.

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.

Assumed, there would be no baptism, on could claim: «What has Christ's death and resurrection to do with me!»

If we can properly teach baptism to people, and they understand what it is and what it isn't, then I'm all for it.

This is what happened with the word baptism as well.

I believer that the sign He gave you was the resurrection, and that what you need is the personal baptism of the Holy Spirit who bears the truth.

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.

Check out this baptism instructional video and tell me if what they say is a good idea or bad idea in church planting.

When people want be baptized «in the right way,» they argue about when baptism should take place, how much water is necessary, where the baptism can occur, who can perform the baptism, what actions should be performed during the baptism, and what words need to be said along with the baptism.

Well, if we translate the Greek word baptizma in Matthew 28:19 - 20, we get a clue as to what Jesus might have actually been teaching... and this leads to the one crazy suggestion about Matthew 28:19 - 20 that might help solve this particular baptism debate.

But instead of the story of Jesus and John at the Jordan we hear Paul addressing the Corinthians in an exasperated tone, asking them to consider what their own baptisms mean.

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.

Just a suggestion you can look up on YouTube David bercot what did the early Christians believe about salvation what did the early Christians believe about baptism.

Thinking this through with considerable sympathy for the LDS leadership, it occurred to me that we Catholics might reflect more seriously on what is really required of us with respect to baptism, especially of infants.

Now, Jesus did submit to the sacrament of water baptism (what Quakers call «John's baptism»), but is never recorded as baptizing with water.

I can't quite figure out what has people upset about this??? If you don't believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true, then I am guessing you probably don't believe that the ordinance of proxy baptism that has been done by member of that church actually means anything.

From what I have read, the proxy of baptism for the dead does not baptize you into the LDS church, but rather Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of their sins through His death.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

What purged him of his sin his baptism and never making another sin after it.

In a world asking too little of itself, feeling cast adrift on a sea of parent-less chaos, timidly sticking its toes into the waters of life when what we need is a faithful plunge, Christian baptism has become again a liberating, revolutionary act.

• Fact # 2: One of the more controversial discussions in their movement is the desire by some (particularly the reformists) to downplay what others consider a central Pentecostal distinctive — that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit manifests itself with the «initial physical evidence» of speaking in tongues.

What matters is that moment of conversion, not the sacrament of baptism, because everything depends on my being able to say «I believe.»