I open up the floor once again to see who can refute the case for water baptism and intercession of the saints. Here's the related material: I continue the series on water baptism by now focusing ...

By Hank Walker | Pastor at Peach City Fellowship The baptism of the Holy Spirit represents a foundational work of God where believers are united with Christ and fellow believers at the moment of ...

Baptism was no longer seen as the instrument of regeneration but the traditional doctrine of the church as consisting of the ...

[21] So, for Anabaptists, regenerate church membership is not a fruit of baptism but vice versa: baptism is a fruit of regeneration. That is, the believers who make up the church baptize. Baptist ...

“Strange thoughts, these.” editorialized the Washington weekly Capital Baptist. “We do not believe in baptismal regeneration for adults, who are supposed to know what they are doing, much ...

“Grace” is in “saving baptism … the sacrament of regeneration.” St. Ambrose (c. 336-397) held that “the good savor of eternal life” was “breathed upon you by the grace of ...

St. Theophilus of Antioch (fl. 185-191) taught that, through baptism, we “receive repentance and remission of sins” and “regeneration” and that as a result of it, we’re “born again.” ...

Still today I believe I was ready. But now I also have to admit: I didn’t know what I didn’t know. At Easter Vigil, Msgr. Bruskewitz gave me the sacramental “grand slam” of conditional baptism, holy ...

J. Warren Smith, professor of historical theology, is interested in the history of theology broadly conceived from the apostles to the present, but his primary focus is upon patristic theology. His ...

J. Warren Smith, professor of historical theology, is interested in the history of theology broadly conceived from the apostles to the present, but his primary focus is upon patristic theology. His ...