Most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They often long and cry for what they call a baptism of power. From Wordnik.com. [Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy] Reference
Locke explains that baptism is spiritual insurance. From Wordnik.com. [The Tail Section » Lost Episode Guide: 2.12 - “Fire + Water”] Reference
The word baptism here probably includes all his work. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Most Pentecostals also believe in baptism by immersion. From Wordnik.com. [Witnessing The New Reach Of Pentecostalism] Reference
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you have risen with him. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
The word baptism meant but one thing and the same thing unto them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity] Reference
Both are shown in baptism, in which both death and life are illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Sudden Curve:] Reference
The funny thing about Baptist baptism is that it is believed to do nothing. From Wordnik.com. [How I Became a Sci Fi Catholic, Part 1] Reference
Wherefore baptism is congruously and truly called the laver of regeneration. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The regenerating efficacy of baptism is conveyed in, and by, the divine word alone. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
These he calls their baptism; just as our baptism might be called our sea and cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
However, many denominations believe that baptism is necessary to be received into heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Tail Section » Lost Episode Guide: 2.12 - “Fire + Water”] Reference
Gradually we washed away the blood feuds of Europe, and almost took a new baptism from the soil. From Wordnik.com. [A Long Time Ago in the FutureCanada Yesterday and Tomorrow] Reference
Here is the outward sign and seal thereof in baptism, called therefore the washing of regeneration. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
The laver of baptism is the vehicle, but the word is the nobler and true instrument of the cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
This ordinance of baptism is a foundation to be rightly laid, and daily remembered, but not repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Note 1: The amount of material that refers to heretical opposition to infant baptism is considerable. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
My elders taught me that the only purpose of baptism is to make a symbolic, public pronouncement of faith. From Wordnik.com. [How I Became a Sci Fi Catholic, Part 1] Reference
One of the responsibilities of the godparents at baptism is to be spiritual parents to the child if the parents die. From Wordnik.com. [Godparents in Mexico, what do you do?] Reference
Now in baptism we are obliged to conform to that pattern, to be planted in the likeness of his resurrection (v. 5), to live with him, v. 8. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Here I shall mention the ceremony, which, at this passage, and some other places, is used by the mariners, and by them called baptism, though it may seem little to our purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main] Reference
That participation in that saving work through faith and baptism is no less necessary for Jews than for Gentiles. From Wordnik.com. [Confessing the Messiah: The Church's Confession of Christ in Jewish-Christian Dialogue - Introduction Pt. II] Reference
The case to be mentioned is probably the only one where "baptism" -- the true mode and manner thereof -- has ever come squarely before an. From Wordnik.com. [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference
The baptism was a royal pain -- at least, the princess thought so. From Wordnik.com. [A Royal Pain In The Church] Reference
Your baptism is the blessed sign, the everlasting pledge, that God's. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the Times] Reference
The apostle makes it a type of our baptism, that is, our Christianity, 1 Pet. iii. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
For the fount of tears is also called baptism, according to the grace of the Master. From Wordnik.com. [orrologion] Reference
This is considered a description of baptism, which is by that connection distinguished from all other washings. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
George Elliot said: "Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Men may figuratively be said to be baptized into a doctrine, when their baptism is a pledge and token of their profession of it. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
The baptism was a token or badge of that profession, and they were thereby distinguished and known as his disciples and followers. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of Elder David Purviance, with His Memoirs: Containing His Views on Baptism, the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement. Written by Himself: with an Appendix; Giving Biographical Sketches of Elders John Hardy, Reuben Dooly, William Dye, Thos. Kyle, George Shidler, William Kinkade, Thomas Adams, Samuel Kyle, and Nathan Worley. Together with a Historical Sketch of the Great Kentucky Revival] Reference
D. 200 -- 257, wrote a tract in defence of clinical baptism, that is, baptism of sick people, against those who denied its validity. From Wordnik.com. [Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why?] Reference
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