Sentences with phrase «word baptism»

ut when we understand the word baptism to mean an immersion or a complete identification with something else, the statement becomes clearer.

Most of these contentious issues can be cleared up simply by properly understanding and defining the word baptism.

This is what happened with the word baptism as well.

The word Baptisms is in the plural, because there are seven different baptisms in Scripture.

Not exact matches

Some added words about original sin and baptism from the white - board notes of a Catholic university theology professor:

If Mormons were so upright on their faith they'd (1) acknowledge Christ is the last prophet (negating the book of LDS), and (2) these proxy baptisms of the dead violate the Word.

No where else, except in His Word, His people, and His mandates of baptism and the Lord's Supper does He promise to be there to save me.

ekklēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

Paul taught salvation was a gift of God: Ephesians 2:8, Romans 5:15,16, and 18, 6:23 Paul taught salvation occurred when you believe the word of truth: Ephesians 1:13 Paul taught salvation was apart from works: Ephesians 2:9, Romans 11:6 Paul taught the believer is indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption: Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 4:30 Paul taught repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ: Acts 20:21 Paul never taught baptism for salvation 1 Corinthians 1:14 - 17 Paul received his knowledge of the gospel from Jesus Christ: Galatians 1:11 - 12

In these Morrison challenged church father Alexander Campbell's rendering of the Greek word baptizo and his argument that made immersion identical with baptism.

The word «heresy» is not a translation of a Greek word, but a transliteration, just like baptism (baptizo) and evangelism (euangelizo).

Word of the Frank baptism came a week after the issue of Mormon posthumous proxy baptism of Jews attracted national attention.

Visitors are invited to place their hands on the slab, let the water stream over their fingers and meditate on the words carved into that slab, «Remember your baptism, and be thankful.»

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

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.

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.

But when Christians think that baptism is required to gain eternal life, then it also becomes important to make sure that the baptism is done in the right way with the right words.

In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right words need to be said in order for the magic spell to actually work.

So let us all stop arguing about the method, mode, and magic words of baptism, and instead start living for Jesus and loving others like Jesus... just as He commanded us in Matthew 28:19 - 20.

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.

Luke makes less of repentance as the basis or baptism than do the other two synoptic writers; in fact, the word «baptism» occurs only twice in Luke's third chapter, and is not even included in this Sunday's...

We can hear the words, words we have heard before, time and time again: «Repentance,» «baptism,» «forgiveness of sins.»

Baptism is a Greek word which means «immersion» or «submersion.»

For these words to have their effect you have to have known the ecstasy of worship — no tepid Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, but a baptism that made you weep, or an Easter vigil that brought you out of darkness and into light.

Even John the Baptist seems to have forgotten all that happened at Jesus» baptism, including his own words of testimony that the person he baptized was far greater than he, one whose sandals he was not worthy to unloose.

The solution to understanding 1 Peter 3:21 is to properly define the words «baptism» and «saves.»

Speaking to The Prayer Book Society (PBS), he listed some of his favourites words used during a Baptism service.

They argue that if the word baptisma means immersion, then clearly, all baptisms must be by immersion.

This post will briefly summarize how to understand the words «baptism» and «save.»

Still wet from his baptism, Jesus struggles, apparently, with the burden that lies within the words, «You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.»

By believing in God's promises, the promises which were made to us in our baptism, and which are continually renewed through the proclamation of his Word at Mass..

ecclēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

In contrast, Lutherans believe that God works through the sacrament with the Word, and so God actually confers grace in and through baptism and the Supper.

At his baptism, the words of the Psalm were applied to Jesus.

At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed by God in a way, which can not be described by human words.

Matthew quotes this later (12:18) in a form even closer to the words spoken by the voice at Jesus» baptism, reading «my beloved» instead of «my chosen.»

Fourth, the indelible character of baptism (grace), confirmation (mission) and orders (office) means that allChristians remain enabled and available for every new encounter with the Lord: in other words, they are deputed towards Christ.

Christ, mystically understood, is the great fish (the Greek word for fish is πà # À ™, an acronym which translates as Jesus Son of God, Saviour); and we, like him, are fish in the water of baptism as we accompany our master (see Augustine's The City of God, Book XVIII, Chapter 23).

In a word: By sacramental baptism you become a Christian in that sense, that you must and can follow Jesus after baptism.

Luther used to call baptism «God's word in water.»

That the Lord's Supper is celebrated and his death proclaimed until he returns; that in the name of the triune God baptism is administered and God's justifying Word is preached; that we are the Lord's in life and in death and therefore in our first and in our last failure; that we believe, hope and love — to proclaim and mediate that is the proper function of the Church.

Baptism brings the liberating word of grace.

And none is more real than that which comes to light in Cary's explanation of what Luther actually means by «faith alone,» namely, a simple, firm belief that our sins are absolved when we hear the divine words to that effect pronounced in the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.

The church is just a bunch of us sinners who have been brought together to hear that Word (of law and gospel), and receive Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

The Gospels prepare us to hear the word of grace by first making us hear the voice of John, the voice crying in the desert, denouncing and exposing the leaders of the people as a «brood of vipers» and calling all to a baptism of repentance.

If the Church in Corinth had been taught by the Apostle Paul that the manner in which one is saved is to pray (verbally or nonverbally) a sincere, penitent, prayer / petition to God, such as a version of the Sinner's Prayer, why does this passage of God's Holy Word discuss baptisms for the dead and not «prayers for the dead», specifically, praying a version of the Sinner's Prayer for the dead?

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.»

Stay in front of that Word and trust what He has done for you in your Baptism!

«First of all, let me say a word about why the average adult seeks baptism.

Others such words include «Christ» and «baptism»).