From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism. |
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The sacraments of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and extreme unction provided rites of passage through crucial moments in an individual's life. |
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Their worship is spontaneous, with emphasis on extempore prayer, believer's baptism, and the Lord's supper. |
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As to the other dominical sacrament, the role of baptism in justification is that it removes original sin. |
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It is one of the richest resources on baptism written for Episcopalians in print. |
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This practice marked entrance into Baptist society, and demanded a rejection of infant baptism. |
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He presents the documents of his baptism, confirmation and four minor orders and his dimissory letters from the prelate of his native country. |
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Our gospel reading, which culminates in Jesus' days in the desert, opens with Jesus' baptism by John. |
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When a child is ready for baptism, the parents first select the godparents. |
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Parents select godparents for their children's baptism, confirmation, and marriage. |
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Whether we are lay or ordained as bishops, priests, or deacons, we are all called in our baptism to servanthood as the foundation of ministry. |
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The time honoured methods of ransom, Danegeld and baptism of Viking leaders continued to be more successful. |
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At the appointed moment, we gathered round the ancient stone font to witness the baptism. |
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Finally, one must ask what specific ideas about God and man were accepted by Augustine in consequence of his baptism and confession of faith. |
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Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness. |
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The church itself is home to a 100-year-old organ, 14th century carvings and a 12 th century baptism font known as a piscina. |
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It is not, however, only a matter of when the Spirit is invoked, but how the action of the Spirit is understood in baptism and in confirmation. |
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The first believer's baptism by immersion in Western Canada was conducted in this church a year later. |
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And just after Pastor Hanna's sermon a member of the congregation presented herself for a believer's baptism by full immersion. |
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Another group named Keithians held many Baptist ideas including baptism by immersion but merged those ideas with some Quaker beliefs. |
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To them, his baptism by immersion smacked of the fanaticism that revival often seems to bring. |
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It did not require baptism by immersion as a prerequisite for church membership. |
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Absolved of our sins, we are once more made as clean as the day of our baptism. |
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Still covered in blood from his sick parody of a baptism, he smiled with such cruelty that even his most hardened captains turned, sickened. |
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If the child died within a month of baptism, the chrisom-cloth was used as a burial shroud. |
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To date, in addition to several Chrismations most years, the parish has celebrated two weddings and will shortly have its first baptism. |
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The admitted necessity of baptism proved original sin, and the flaw in human nature proved the necessity of faith and baptism. |
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The more we think about ordination in the context of baptism, the greater the leveling effect. |
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The sacraments can communicate blessings apart from faith, and baptism appears to be a converting ordinance. |
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In the Middle Ages, some groups, such as the Waldenses and Catharists, rejected infant baptism. |
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And the reality of original sin and the necessity of baptism is the very first fact catechumens need to encounter. |
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I'm a catechumen eagerly seeking baptism, but my parents are strongly opposed. |
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In some cases, the leaders themselves were catechumens, that is, people preparing for baptism. |
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Three main rites of passage still observed are baptism, marriage, and death. |
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An outstanding portrait is his majestic image of the princess splendidly bejewelled for the baptism of the prince. |
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Our foreheads are smeared with ashes in the shape of a cross, a dramatic contrast to the cross made on our foreheads at baptism. |
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I was constantly attending a birthday, wedding, bridal shower, baptism or celebration for someone's name day. |
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In the Catechism of the Book of Common Prayer the link between baptism and ministry is succinct and clear. |
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The church bells rang out as families with bonny babies filled the church for a baptism service. |
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And now the fall-out from that baptism of fire for the new ruling group has begun, with allegations of sleaze, bribery and illegal voting. |
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An important ceremony for the Sikhs is the baptism, or initiation into the Sikh religion. |
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His arrest and deportation in 1907 was his first baptism in fire from which he emerged a high-minded statesman cast in a heroic mould. |
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Edith responded immediately by buying a missal and a catechism and preparing for baptism. |
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Or, that those who talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit are one sandwich short of a picnic! |
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The ministrant of this sacrament is the priest, for baptism belongs to his office. |
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We may not be of one mind on several issues, but we share one faith, one baptism, one Lord and Savior of us all. |
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The Holy Spirit came upon him at his baptism, consecrating him as the messiah. |
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After the baptism of fire that was the Border, Christy found the pace of policing in Westport a little more sedate. |
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Latham's first big test, his baptism of fire, has shown a man who fights best with his back to the wall. |
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Patel had a baptism of fire on the Test stage in 1996, from which he was never given a chance to recover. |
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But Election 2004 will be somewhat of a baptism of fire for her daughter Dawn who, at 21, is the youngest candidate seeking a seat in Kerry. |
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It looks like being another difficult week for Sandy Crombie, who is having a baptism of fire since assuming the top job at Standard Life. |
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Deora started writing a column in a Mumbai publication in preparation for his political baptism. |
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Significantly, Marcion would admit married persons to baptism in his church only if they took a vow to abstain from all sexual intercourse. |
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When water baptism precedes salvation it becomes a religious practice, a ritual without substance. |
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This is an especially appropriate time to begin worship with a remembrance of baptism and a sprinkling rite. |
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He challenges the view of baptism as an admission to membership within the church. |
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One witnesses the fasting and the solemn rite of baptism, preferably, by immersion in flowing water. |
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At the opening worship, dancers waved a river of blue fabric through the crowd, symbolizing the waters of baptism. |
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In Denmark, baptism in the state church had become a matter-of-course rite of citizenship. |
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A living Mormon stands in as proxy for a deceased person, as water baptism by immersion is vicariously performed. |
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Native Baptist church is immersion baptism. |
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My first opportunity for believer's baptism in water by immersion came one month later. |
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In the early church, baptism immediately made newcomers a part of the whole community. |
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Only as they shared the name of Jesus Christ in baptism would they find real unity. |
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She was also known to mock the holy sacrament of baptism by sprinkling water on her mother's head and reciting the appropriate words. |
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Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth. |
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Most Catalans mark major events such as baptism and marriage with the appropriate religious ritual. |
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On an old, dry river bend stand the ruins of an ancient chapel that Jordanians say is the site of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist. |
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Preachers may choose to continue the Lenten theme of baptism by examining the Epistle reading. |
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Following baptism, the child is anointed with a special oil and dressed in new clothing. |
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We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin. |
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So, baptism establishes the lay status of a believer by ordaining that person into the lay order. |
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A similar hesitation over the baptism of Jesus by John can be discerned in Luke's rehandling of Mark's account of the baptism of Jesus. |
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We are called back to our baptism, when our old self was drowned in the waters poured over our head and we were reborn children of God. |
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Baptism implies full membership of the Church and must never be separated from that understanding. |
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Parish directors and lay ministers are asked to prepare candidates for baptism or marriage, then to step aside when a priest arrives to administer the sacraments. |
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But shortly after the baptism she felt she was living a lie. |
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It would make for simplicity, he once remarked apropos of infant baptism, if all Adam's posterity derived souls as well as bodies from their first parent by heredity. |
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Protestants observe only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper, for we find that these are the only two that Jesus commanded to be observed. |
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Some schools insist on seeing baptism certificates or letters from local clergy confirming that a family regularly attends church before they will offer a place to a child. |
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The communal nature of this endeavor is based in baptism, because all who are baptized belong to Christ and are committed to follow him as disciples. |
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Given that the church was a state church, the view was that one could not make a purely religious act such as baptism a requirement for church membership. |
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Infant and deathbed baptisms bring new dimensions to understanding the operation of baptism engaging human life to its limits and beyond as evidence of divine grace. |
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The Happy Scrubbers got a real baptism of fire at the opening of the Golf season at Doors Golf Club on Saturday, with absolutely horrendous climatic conditions prevailing. |
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Blanc, though, faces a baptism of fire against Duncan Ferguson and Ferguson has warned the ex-French international what to expect from the towering Everton striker. |
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The experience proved a classic baptism of fire for MacArthur, who got little sleep and had to force herself to eat, all the time fretting about the record. |
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Very few teams recover from being 3-1 down inside English football's most imposing atmosphere, but Ranieri's did on his so-called baptism of fire. |
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Their parent faith, Mennonitism, was born of a split in Switzerland in 1525, when the Mennonites broke from the Protestant reform church in a dispute over infant baptism. |
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This we celebrate in baptism, by the metanoia ritualized in our renunciations and affirmations, our promises, and our commitment to the church's faith. |
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A baptism of repentance is appropriate for sinners, but not for Jesus. |
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While this nuptial dimension belongs to the entire Church by reason of our baptism, the cloistered nun is consecrated to be an icon of this reality. |
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Such obedience included acceptance of the Mormon faith through baptism, living a moral and godly life, and the completion of certain ceremonies and ordinances in the temple. |
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The nature of each is spelled out in baptism and ordination. |
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Chrisomer literally means an infant buried in its baptism robe. |
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It is said to depict a chrisom child, i.e., a chrisom is a child's white robe worn at baptism, used as a shroud if the infant dies within a month. |
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Further, with this requirement Japanese Baptists had to loosen the requirement of believer's baptism by immersion and tolerate various other baptismal traditions. |
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Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition. |
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Apparently, the creepy entourage accompanying the star were not his flunkies but church elders ready to perform an instant baptism there and then. |
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Pentecostalism takes its name from its central tenet of baptism in the Spirit and the associated experience of speaking in tongues or glossolalia. |
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She was aggressively proselytized by local church authorities and told that she would never see her lost children if she didn't convert and accept baptism. |
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It includes letters testimonial, notices of intention to ordain, letters dimissory, certificates of baptism, presentations, resignations, and subscriptions, among others. |
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High Priest, please disrobe the child and ready her for baptism. |
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Baptism and Chrismation must be understood and experienced as corporate acts of worship and praise. |
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James Conor Coleman, Cross, Edmondstown recently celebrated the sacrament of Baptism in Monasteraden. |
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We have God's word in Jesus, and we have God's grace in Baptism and the Lord's Supper. |
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God has given us two wonderful pictures of the gospel, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. |
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A young woman was accepted as being in a stage of preparation for receiving the sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation. |
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We are committed by that Baptism to share in the celebration of this faith in a common sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. |
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The Sacrament of Baptism and the Season of Lent are connected catechetically and liturgically. |
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Baptism is full immersion, and confession involves physical contact in the laying on of the hand. |
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So we seek a fuller understanding of Baptism as initiation into a community of faith. |
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Baptism is both a confession of faith and the sign and seal of the covenant of grace into which the Lord has brought us. |
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In the Baptism liturgy, there is clear involvement of the whole congregation as a baptizing community. |
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Having to deal with a bomb scare on his first day was a real baptism of fire for John. |
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This personal cleansing prepares the believer to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. |
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On the other hand, the Baptists required each member to experience conversion, followed by baptism. |
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Like Conservative Friends, Liberal Friends reject religious symbolism and sacraments, such as water baptism and the Eucharist. |
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Conservative Friends completely reject all forms of religious symbolism and outward sacraments, such as the Eucharist and water baptism. |
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For instance, in 2005, the Southern Baptist International Mission Board forbade its missionaries to receive alien immersions for baptism. |
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In this pericope the reader is presented with two situations involving people who had received the baptism of John. |
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Therefore, some churches will admit into membership persons who make a profession without believer's baptism. |
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Most baptists do not believe that baptism is a requirement for salvation, but rather a public expression of one's inner repentance and faith. |
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Others believe the ensoulment occurs at birth, and still others upon baptism. |
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Calvinism, the practice of intercommunion, and the proper procedures for baptism, just to name a few. |
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Ultimately, Smyth became committed to believers' baptism as the only biblical baptism. |
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If they have not previously been baptised, the service will include baptism. |
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However, a specific experience of baptism with the Holy Spirit may not be requisite for experiencing such gifts. |
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Charles Fox Parham, who associated glossolalia with the baptism in the Holy Spirit. |
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Pentecostalism is a movement that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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Baptists subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers. |
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In accordance with his reading of the New Testament, he rejected baptism of infants and instituted baptism only of believing adults. |
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Anabaptists required that baptismal candidates be able to make their own confessions of faith and so rejected baptism of infants. |
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Anabaptists believe in delaying baptism until the candidate confesses his or her faith. |
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The royal baptism probably took place at Canterbury but Bede does not mention the location. |
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As such there is no evidence that heterodox baptism figured into the practice of the Irish church. |
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It was in baptism that the theologically most load-bearing aspects of the liturgical life of the Church were concentrated. |
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The sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist are generally thought necessary to salvation. |
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Many remain in the church to participate in the community and practices such as baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial rites. |
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Most Norwegians are registered at baptism as members of the Church of Norway which used to be the official state religion. |
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It has been thought that Constantine put off baptism as long as he did so as to be absolved from as much of his sin as possible. |
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In postponing his baptism, he followed one custom at the time which postponed baptism until after infancy. |
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The first wooden minster church was built in York for the baptism of Edwin in 627, according to the Venerable Bede. |
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With defeat came enforced baptism and conversion as well as the union of the Saxons with the rest of the Germanic, Frankish empire. |
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I think he just got ahead of himself in telling first of the arrest of John, then jumped back to the earlier baptism of Jesus. |
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Christcentrism became the keyword. Spirit baptism, speaking in tongues, and faith healing became easier to understand, and accept. |
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The Church opposed burning people who had received the myron of chrismation in the baptism ritual. |
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If you have a child for Baptism you are asked to give two weeks' notice so the Baptismal team and the priest scheduled to celebrate the ceremony may arrange to visit you. |
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Bogomilists rejected the divinity of Jesus, the worship of images, baptism, the ornamentation of churches, etc. |
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There he taught that speaking in tongues was the scriptural evidence for the reception of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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He taught that the baptism with the Holy Spirit was a third experience, subsequent to conversion and sanctification. |
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Sanctification cleansed the believer, but Spirit baptism empowered for service. |
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Furthermore, Ewart believed that Jesus' name baptism and the gift of tongues were essential for salvation. |
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It can be a life cycle celebration for an individual, such as baptism, birthday or wedding. |
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Dahn equated Chararic with Theodemir, even saying that the latter was the name he took upon baptism. |
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Charles's main Saxon opponent, Widukind, accepted baptism in 785 as part of a peace agreement, but other Saxon leaders continued to fight. |
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Shortly after his baptism, their son died, which further strengthened Clovis's resistance to conversion. |
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Clotilde also had their second son baptized without her husband's permission, and this son became ill and nearly died after his baptism. |
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Much of the theology of Latter Day Saint baptism was established during the early Latter Day Saint movement founded by Joseph Smith. |
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Mormon baptism does not purport to remit any sins other than personal ones, as adherents do not believe in original sin. |
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Membership into a Latter Day Saint church is granted only by baptism whether or not a person has been raised in the church. |
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If there are any mistakes, or if any part of the person being baptized is not fully immersed, the baptism must be redone. |
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In addition to the baptizer, two priesthood holders witness the baptism to ensure that it is performed properly. |
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Following baptism, Latter Day Saints receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands of a Melchizedek Priesthood holder. |
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Often the conversion of the ruler was followed by the compulsory baptism of his subjects. |
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His baptism was followed by the building of churches and the establishment of an ecclesiastical hierarchy. |
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Those who fled to Genoa were only allowed to land provided they received baptism. |
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Two analogies that he used quite effectively were between baptism and circumcision and between the eucharist and Passover. |
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Later, in his conflict with the Anabaptists, he defended the practice of infant baptism, noting that there is no law forbidding the practice. |
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He argued that baptism was a sign of a covenant with God, thereby replacing circumcision in the Old Testament. |
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George's made a connection with young families beyond the sacrament of baptism and built a community around it. |
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The Articles argue against some Anabaptist positions such as the holding of goods in common and the necessity of believer's baptism. |
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Since Absolution is a return to the forgiveness given in baptism, strictly speaking there are only two sacraments. |
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It is for this reason that the Declaration of Principles denies that regeneration is inseparably connected with baptism. |
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The new folks really get put through a baptism by fire, to start doing a stressful job with so little training. |
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The ex-Hearts ace, 29, has joined Dee until the summer and is set for a baptism of fire in the topof-the-table clash with Hamilton tomorrow. |
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Team YP will have its baptism of fire this week as it participates in the upcoming Gamergy Tournament in Madrid, Spain. |
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The Spanish boss oversees what may be his last game in charge today after coming through a baptism of fire in English football. |
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In this baptism of fire Sally, Joel and Darren seem to be left pretty much to their own devices as they hammer, twist and bend the hot steel. |
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According to Wesleyan Pentecostals, entire sanctification is a definite event that occurs after salvation but before Spirit baptism. |
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Therefore, most Pentecostal groups practice believer's baptism by immersion. |
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The ordinance of water baptism is an outward symbol of an inner conversion that has already taken place. |
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Baptism is salvific in that repentance and water baptism are necessary for salvation. |
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Spiritual gifts are received as a result of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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There is only one baptism with the Spirit, but there should be many infillings with the Spirit throughout the believer's life. |
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Some teach that any of the gifts of the Spirit can be evidence of having received Spirit baptism. |
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Our Pedo-baptist and Campbellite neighbors are mooting the subject of baptism, and especially communion. |
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The sign of entrance into the Church is the Sacrament of Baptism. |
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Pentecostals expect certain results following baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
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There are Pentecostal believers who have claimed to receive their baptism with the Holy Spirit while being water baptized. |
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He rebuilt the Chapel Royal at Stirling in 1594 and the choir was used for state occasions like the baptism of his son Henry. |
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The Westminster Confession of Faith limits the sacraments to baptism and the Lord's Supper. |
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Adiaphora being the theological tool which was developed during the controversies of the Reformation, is the baptism not an adiaphora? |
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Stoats were also supposed to hold the souls of infants who died before baptism. |
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Kirk sessions were able to apply religious sanctions, such as excommunication and denial of baptism, to enforce godly behaviour and obedience. |
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The decline has been due to both church membership resignations and falling baptism rates. |
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On the appointed day of his baptism, Father Bowden received a bunch of altar lilies instead. |
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Immersion baptism is also seen as a practice established by the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist and is therefore Biblically based. |
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In 2017 during a visit in Egypt, Pope Francis reestablished mutual recognition of baptism with the Coptic Orthodox Church. |
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From baptism young infants and children are carried to the chalice to receive holy communion. |
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It is normally given immediately after baptism as part of the same service, but is also used to receive lapsed members of the Orthodox Church. |
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As in the West, baptism was delegated to presbyters, but so, too, was the chrismation rite. |
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These five lectures, known as the Mystagogical Catecheses, explained the significance of sacraments such as baptism, chrismation and Eucharist. |
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As the customary gap between birth and baptism was three days, he was probably born about 13 April. |
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The baptism of Clovis I also highlights the sacral role of the Germanic king. |
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The baptism of Clovis highlights two important characteristics of the Christianization of Europe. |
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Baptism is an outward expression that symbolizes the inward cleansing or remission of a person's sins which has already taken place at salvation. |
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Fick's account of training, leadership, and combat is straightforward and unadorned, and he is refreshingly unselfconscious about his own baptism by fire. |
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Henry VIII's cousin once removed, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, stood sponsor for Mary's confirmation, which was held immediately after the baptism. |
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From humble beginnings in Aberystwyth, Dai kicked off his four decades in the kitchen with a baptism of fire in some of finest restaurants in London's West End. |
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Thus, all who come into one of the Latter Day Saint faiths as converts are baptized, even if they have previously received baptism in another faith. |
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The person administering the baptism must recite the prayer exactly, and immerse every part, limb, hair and clothing of the person being baptized. |
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Simpson believed that Pentecostal tongues speaking was a legitimate manifestation of the Holy Spirit, but he did not believe it was a necessary evidence of Spirit baptism. |
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Oneness Pentecostal adherents believe repentance, baptism in Jesus' name, and Spirit baptism are all essential elements of the conversion experience. |
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Others view baptism as a purely symbolic act, an external public declaration of the inward change which has taken place in the person, but not as spiritually efficacious. |
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Baptism, specifically infant baptism, in the Lutheran tradition. |
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Meanwhile, I was musing on the concept of drip-drying at the baptism. |
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Tongues as the initial evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit and in individual prayer serves a different purpose than tongues as a spiritual gift. |
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Lutherans hold that Baptism is a saving work of God, mandated and instituted by Jesus Christ. |
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The Munster fanatics seem to have been Antipaedobaptist Anabaptists, but their baptism must have begun with themselves, as the followers of De Bruis's opinion on the subjects. |
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Moses striking the rock in the desert, a prototype of baptism. |
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In addition, Latter Day Saint theology requires that baptism may only be performed with one who has been called and ordained by God with priesthood authority. |
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Long before his own baptism, Clovis had allowed his sons to be baptised. |
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On February 2, the council repeated the requirement on the baptism of all babies and some who failed to comply were arrested and fined, Manz and Blaurock among them. |
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Darwin's family tradition was nonconformist Unitarianism, while his father and grandfather were freethinkers, and his baptism and boarding school were Church of England. |
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They had to find a way of instructing the flood of new converts presenting themselves for baptism, some, doubtless, with an eye on the main chance. |
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Admittedly it was a baptism by fire but he's been around a bit now. |
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The whole question of ensoulment was determined by the date of baptism. |
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For Erasmus's anticoercive heresy was about baptism, not about the state. |
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There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism, the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil. |
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The inner sanctuary forms the other part of the cathedral including the Baptism Room, the Temple and the Deaconry. |
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This is the egalitarian revelation and baptism that Muir found in the Sierra, and it confirmed his Campbellite tendency to reject creeds and dogmatic human traditions. |
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Thomas Helwys and others kept their baptism and their Baptist commitments. |
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Zwingli, in another line of tradition understands baptism as a confessional act done in obedience to God by the baptized person together with the congregation. |
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The nature of the Anglican Communion is such that not all churches or dioceses must agree on all issues in order to share a common faith and baptism. |
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On January 1, 1901, after a watch night service, the students prayed for and received the baptism with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. |
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A notable exception is Jesus' Name Pentecostalism, most adherents of which believe both water baptism and Spirit baptism are integral components of salvation. |
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The division's baptism by fire came in the first days of the Battle of the Somme, where it captured the strongly held Mametz Wood at the loss of nearly 4,000 men. |
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Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. |
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Baptism may occur in any body of water that will allow full immersion, though many Brethren assembly halls will have a baptistry. |
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Scripture was also viewed as a unified whole, which led to a covenantal theology of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper as visible signs of the covenant of grace. |
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Zwingli approached the eucharist in a similar manner to baptism. |
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Baptism admits the baptized into the visible church, and in it all the benefits of Christ are offered to the baptized. |
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Furthermore, to this, the Seekers denied the effectiveness of external forms of religion such as the sacraments, baptism and the Scriptures as a means of salvation. |
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The date of Smith's baptism into the Church of Scotland at Kirkcaldy was 5 June 1723 and this has often been treated as if it were also his date of birth, which is unknown. |
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Mieszko saw baptism as a way of strengthening his hold on power, with the active support he could expect from the bishops, as well as a unifying force for the Polish people. |
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Questions are posed by the Reformed tradition to Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, and from BEM to Reformed theology. |
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Of the seven sacraments, all Anglicans recognise Baptism and the Eucharist as being directly instituted by Christ. |
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The Open Brethren teach that baptism plays no role in salvation, and is properly performed only after a person professes Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. |
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Baptism is the ritual act, with the use of water, by which a person is admitted to membership of the Church. |
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The Particular Baptists were established when a group of Calvinist Separatists adopted believers' Baptism. |
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Patristic writers allowed affusion in clinical baptism, although it seems to have involved a considerable amount of water poured over the patient. |
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As baptism is a person's participation in the death and resurrection of Christ, so Chrismation is a person's participation in the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. |
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This is not considered to be a second baptism, nor is it imagined that the person is not already Orthodox, but rather it is a fulfillment of the proper form. |
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Although Bede's account makes Laurence's miraculous flogging the trigger for Eadbald's baptism, this completely ignores the political and diplomatic problems facing Eadbald. |
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He also provided simplified versions of the baptism and marriage services. |
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Through Baptism a person is united to the Body of Christ by becoming a member of the Orthodox Church. |
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In the Baptism service the priest explicitly pronounces the baptised infant as being now regenerate. |
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The service of Baptism used in Orthodox churches has remained largely unchanged for over 1500 years. |
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The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life. |
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Baptism with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues are not generally required, though Pentecostal converts are usually encouraged to seek these experiences. |
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Together they create several evil demons and magicians among them Jesus the son of Ruha Qadistha, who accordingly distorted Baptism and Adonai, considered to be the sun. |
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Baptism is also a public identification of that person with Jesus Christ. |
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That faith is expressed most fundamentally in Scripture and in worship, and the latter most essentially through the mystery of Baptism and in the Divine Liturgy. |
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Baptism is usually understood as an outward symbol of an inward change. |
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At its western end it contains the font for the ritual washing service of Baptism, at which a person, most often an infant, is symbolically accepted into the church. |
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