Sentences with phrase «who by baptism»

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.

What type of ancestor do we, who by baptism are part of the communion of saints, hope to be?

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I am personally offended by the practice of «proxy baptism», as should be anyone who choses to practice a religion — or choses not to.

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Case 3: Mormons are right, and spirits are required to have an authorized baptism the Mormon way, by a person with a physical body here on earth... Then the person who received the baptism by proxy (after learning the truth... after death) can either reject it and go on their happy way, or may be pretty happy to receive it.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

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.

If there is unfair treatment of women in the LDS church, it is by individuals who alone are not living the standards they promised to keep at baptism.

It is the fact that Christian baptism — the Jewish concept stolen and perverted by the Christians — means nothing to the Jews, but the fact that a Jewish girl who resisted the Nazis through her faith has been converted anyways when she could no longer resist.

CNN: After Anne Frank baptism, Mormons vow to discipline members Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church policy.

Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could come to faith, through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.

(CNN)- Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church policy.

Whenever a child of God claimed by Christ at his baptism dies, we the Christian faithful turn to the one who died for us to greet us in our sorrow, to intercede for us with the Father, and to strengthen us in hope.

It was Mark who began this process of transvaluation, as far as we can make out at this distance, by insisting that Jesus became Messiah at his baptism — though perhaps the evangelic tradition had already received this interpretation in the Roman community, or even, earlier still, in Palestine or in the early Gentile church.

18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»

Those who could acknowledge in faith its claim to possessing the eternal truths could become members of the institution by baptism.

Baptism, by those who have authority and the reception of the holy ghost is the key to enter the kingdom of God.

We are saved by faith and baptism into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the glory of God.

Such differences were denied by the participants in these parishes who, if they countenanced distinctions at all, would confine them to matters of practice (worship patterns, frequency of Scripture reading, baptism) and not faith.

Anus, who, as we have seen, said that Jesus was created by God and was not himself God, claimed that God had adopted Jesus, perhaps at his baptism.

There are some who will be scandalized by the idea that the Lord intended baptism and communion for generations past and not ours.

Among white Pentecostals the pressure comes from the charismatics, who are shedding certain classical Pentecostal doctrines, particularly «the baptism of the Holy Spirit» and its being «evidenced» by speaking in tongues.

Then, in the reading from Acts, Peter tells Cornelius about «the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil; and God was with him.»

Finally, the Proclamation led up to an appeal to the hearers to give their personal assent to the «Good News»; to implement it by turning in repentance and trust to God, who by His «mighty works» had made a new people for Himself; and to signify the same by baptism into the fellowship of the Church, thereby accepting God's forgiveness and entering into new relations with Him.

You know the thing that happened throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, after the Baptism that John proclaimed: Jesus of Nazareth — how God anointed him with holy Spirit and power: who went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him; and we ourselves are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they killed by hanging on a tree.

Christ's forty days in the wilderness following his baptism by John the Baptist were often interpreted as symbolic of purification and renewal before beginning his ministry, and the monks who withdrew to the desert were in a sense following his example.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

By the time we get to verse 29, Paul makes a point about those in Corinth who apparently were making baptism arrangements for the dead, but didn't even believe in resurrection.

That is no doubt because Catholics are long accustomed to ecumenical initiatives, and have no difficulty in acknowledging that non-Catholic Christians are brothers and sisters in Christ who, by virtue of baptism and faith, are «truly but imperfectly in communion with the Catholic Church» (Vatican Council II).

Indeed St. Paul appears to have done something of the sort when he speaks of the Church as Christ's body and those who belong to it by baptism as being members of that body.

I'd like to suggest to anyone who maybe bothered by this practice, as I am, that you put it in your will that It not be done on your behalf, and if it is done, that the the Momon church be held legally responsible to recant the baptism or be sued on the behalf of all those that have been so transgressed upon.

Those who know that they are owned by God recognize that their primary identity is not as cogs in the economic machine, for their baptism has taught them who they are and whose they are.

The Church's «faith story» is more than just a graced subjectivity: it is the response by the redeemed Brideof Christ, of which we are all members by Baptism (note, by Baptism, not by some a-sacramental graced subjectivity), to the Lord who lived, died and rose again in history and whom she awaits to complete all things in His Second Coming.

The crop at that time was composed almost entirely of the lowest untouchable caste, the sweepers, who came unsolicited by the tens of thousands to receive baptism and the benefits of getting out of the Hindu caste system.

This freedom which is Christ and which he gives is appropriated by the man who obeys the call to this freedom in faith and through the baptism which is its expression, submitting himself to the event that opens the prison of the world; namely the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Son.

The baptism is not the ritual bath that was required of every heathen converted to Judaism, and of every Jew who had become unclean by contact with something heathen.

«As for the word which He, the Lord of all, sent to the children of Israel, preaching the Gospel of peace through Jesus the Messiah, you know the thing (literally, «the word») that happened through all Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached; that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with Holy Spirit and power; and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

Perhaps we should institute some annual ritual, based on this scripture in Acts, by which we memorialize Judas's supposed act of perfidy and the selection of new leaders who have walked with Jesus in all aspects of his earthly ministry, from baptism to ascension.

And the Jewish people who heard the message of Peter and who wanted to participate with this arrival of the Kingdom of God in Jesus Christ indicated this desire publicly by receiving the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, just as others had done with John about three years earlier.

All scripture baptisms are done by those who «heard and believed».

All who belong to Christ's Church and are joined to the Lord by Baptism and the Eucharist are certain of resurrection to salvation, (Rom.

A Year of Faith is a time set aside by the Church to focus on the meaning of our baptism» in other words, who we are, what we believe, and how we're called to act as a Christian community.

And into that corporate response those who «join the fellowship» are taken by an appropriate liturgical act — baptism — about which we shall have much to say later in this chapter.

Colossians 2:11 - 13... by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him raised Him from the dead.

Christians are members of a family, siblings by virtue of baptism who pledge to make their stories available to one another out of conviction that they become better people in the process.

Supposedly, there are 2 billion such folks among us these days — a third of the planet's population who take the name of Christ, bear his cross, have been buried with him by baptism into his death.

The fact that John is preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins does not seem to fit with the fact that Jesus, who was sinless, would need to get baptized by John (Matt 3:14 - 15).

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.

Cyprian, having made the point about water and baptism, goes on to look at further scriptural examples, including merging Isaiah 48:21 with John 19:34, to make the point that water from the split rock indicates Christ, «who is the rock, is split open during His passion by a blow from a lance.»