Sentences with phrase «while baptism»

In light of all this, while baptism means immersion, it does not necessarily imply water.

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.

The changes also include giving clergy to option not to wear traditional vestments while performing official church ceremonies such as Holy Communion or weddings, baptisms and funerals.

Nevertheless, the differences are stark enough that Trinitarian Pentecostals in Ethiopia consider Oneness Pentecostalism to be cultish while Oneness Pentecostals re-baptize all converts and tend to connect salvation to their baptism.

While this is a vile act — An act that spits on the beliefs of Anne Frank and the entire Jewish religion — one must ask, is this really worst than the thousands upon thousands of other Baptisms for the dead that the mormons perform?

They attend weekly services in chapels, also referred to as «wards» or meetinghouses, while their large temples (accessible only to those deemed sufficiently faithful) are utilized for the most important and sacred ceremonies, including baptisms for the dead and celestial marriages - during which couples are «sealed» for eternity.

As we grow into the world as infants, the exigencies of our physical nature lead us further and further away from the purity of soul suggested by baptism, while habitual responses gain the upper hand over our wish to follow the prompting of our higher nature.

We saw a new (female) Bishop of London appointed, a royal engagement (and baptism beforehand), thousands calling for a ban on Franklin Graham visiting the UK, while a Christian baker appeared at the US supreme court to ask for the right to refuse to make a gay wedding cake.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

Isn't it?This was in a recent email newsletter sent by a church from my past: «While you only need to be baptized once, if you'd like to reaffirm your commitment to God we encourage you to participate in baptism....

Some people look to Matthew 28:19 - 20 as the proper words for baptism, while others look to the practice of the Apostles in Acts.

For example, a leading Roman Catholic liturgist refers to infant baptism as a «benign abnormality,» while an Instruction from Rome defends the practice.

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.

While Peter does teach that baptism saves us, a careful study of the context reveals that Peter is not talking about gaining eternal life and going to heaven when we die.

While a baptismal service was in progress, he arose to dispute the practice of infant baptism as un-Biblical and proceeded to take each point from the pastor's sermon and to answer it with Baptist views.

Second, while some think that Peter is referring to believer's baptism because of the mention of water in 3:20, Peter clarifies in 3:21 that he is not talking about the outward washing of the flesh with water but the inner purification of a good conscience toward God, which is accomplished only through the Spirit.

In place of the synagogue came the church; in place of circumcision came baptism; in place of the temple altars came the acceptance of Christ's sacrifice in the Lord's Supper; and while only the first suggestions of the early Catholic rubric are within the canon, these suggestions are there, presaging, as they are seen in retrospect, the repetition of all the good and evil fortunes that in every age and faith have attended sacramentalism.

The sources of the trinitarian doctrine is quite clear from history, and with it came beliefs in various things like transubstantiation, theosis, that Mary was a perpetual virgin free from sin, infant baptism, ecclesiastical hierarchy, bishop succession, the phoenix, that the world is made up of fire, water, earth and air, and that things formed of one element are immortal while things formed of many elements are mortal.

While the number of baptisms is down for most age groups, «the only consistently growing group in baptisms is age five and under,» the task force reported.

While no Southern Baptist, conservative or moderate, would accept Campbell's regenerative view of baptism, one must ask whether his rationalistic scheme of salvation by correct belief and observance of proper rituals has not become more nearly the norm among many Southern Baptists.

I thought I was eternally secure after baptism, then weeks after I feel i was convicted of willful sin while reading verse 26 now im filled with worry and anxiety and fear that fiery judgement is all that awaits me.

While secondary issues, like modes of baptism or the role of women in leadership, are still weighty doctrines and deserve careful consideration, there may be a time when you need to set them aside.

The «gathered - church» is one stressing voluntary commitment, while the Volkskirche is one that involves membership by infant baptism.

Essentially, this involved offering a new form of evangelisation, starting with basic catechesis while recognising that baptism had already occurred and that what was needed was a sort of profound awakening of something already offered by God.

While theologians normally elaborated the priesthood of the faithful by typological contrast with the priesthood of the Mosaic order, baptism held similarly revolutionary implications for the order of the Greek and Roman world.

i was raised mormon (no longer practice) and while they do baptisms for the dead, they are not «graveside.»

While the loss of nearly 4,600 baptisms was not as steep as last year's drop, the continued decline (full stats below) is still enough for LifeWay Christian Resources president Thom Rainer to tell Baptist Press, «I am grieved we are clearly losing our evangelistic effectiveness.»

Often they are hyper - sensitive to rejection and pick up immediately on the psychological message given by the well meaning priest while he explains why he is «deferring» the baptism of their child.The message is simple: «You (and your child) are not good enough to belong to this Church» — and they go away sad and humiliated, often never to darken the door of a church again.

While Bonhoeffer saw the lack of commitment, many of these «fanatics» saw infant baptism as breeding cheap grace.

I was at a church a while back that did a baptism by running people through a water sprinkler out on the front lawn, and did communion with doughnuts and coffee.

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.

the book of acts was a transitional book to the dispensation of Grace.Water baptism was occasionaly done as a carry over (over lapping of the 2 dispensations) while the jews were still being dealt with and until the New Testament was finished

While I don't know that Scripture exactly says that the primary purpose of baptism is public declaration or public witness of our faith in Jesus / desire to follow Jesus, it does appear from early accounts of baptisms that they definitely functioned in that way.

While the possibility that infant baptism was also practised in the apostolic age can not be excluded, baptism upon personal profession of faith is the most clearly attested pattern in the New Testament documents.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

[36] He refers to the study document prepared for the fourth assembly of the WCC in Uppsala in 1968 by Paul Löffler entitled Conversion to God and Service to Man, where Löffler wrote»... conversion and baptism, while linked with the entry into the church, do not serve its interests but the larger purpose of God for the whole creation.»

These two major theological contributions, one from almost thirty years ago, and the other from almost twenty years ago, indicate that concerned theologians have been wrestling with the issues of baptism conversion, and mission, without loosing track of what had happened in the past, while at the same time trying to discern what was happening in their immediate context.

Here Joyce also discusses the changes in Tertullian's thinking with regard to the implications of penance, between the treatises De paenitentia, written while Tertullian was still in the catholic church, where «he had expressly taught that full and entire pardon is secured by penance,» and the later De pudicitia, where he «utterly denies the Church's power to absolve from any sin which deprives a man of the sonship of God conferred on him in baptism.»

While the heavens probably are not rent in two and no divine voice may declare us members of God's family, our baptism does seal our astonishing relationship to a gracious God.

For most Protestants, baptism and the Eucharist have been retained, even while the other sacraments have been abandoned or restructured.

At the Easter Vigil, the priest blesses the water in the baptismal font, lowering the lighted Pascal candle into it three times while saying: «May the power of the Holy Spirit, O Lord we pray, come down through your Son into the fullness of this font...» He then holds the candle in the water while continuing ``... so that all who have been buried with Christ by baptism and death may rise again to life with him.»

«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a living and true God and not moving from one culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.

The ancestry, birth and childhood, baptism, temptations, and vocation of Jesus are examined while bringing him to the point of his work on earth.

14 Behold I say unto you, that he that supposeth that little children need baptism is in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; for he hath neither faith, hope, nor charity; wherefore, should he be cut off while in the thought, he must go down to hell.

Significantly, the bishop retained his unique baptismal role in the regenerative act of baptism somewhat longer than his eucharistic pre-eminence; and even after finally giving up the baptizing of all catechumens outside his own parish, he preserved, at least in the West, the confirmation thereof as a distinct and essential ceremony, while in the East it was he alone who could bless the oils used by priests in baptism and confirmation.

There is nothing about Jesus» baptism to distinguish it from yours and mine, except that apparently he was immersed, while many of us were sprinkled.

While I was home for my nephew and niece's baptism, I was able to escort my Grandma from the Alzheimer's wing to the hospital chapel for the service.

* Side note about these photos... this is the outfit I wore while I was back in the US last week for my nephew's baptism.

For Laure, this is a spiritual act (one of many baptisms in the film), and for De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays on the big screen.

The painting is peppered with subtle allusions: a book on Chardin sat on the bottom shelf of the wheeled cabinet hints at the French master's domestic scenes, while Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ is seen reflected in the small mirror.