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American Tract Dictionary2 results found for baptism Showing 1 through 2 Click any letter to display an alphabetized index of Biblical terms: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Result 1- BAPTISM The holy ordinance by which persons are admitted as members of the Christian community. It is administered in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and is a visible and public profession of faith in Christ and his salvation, of vital union with him, of the obligation to live a new life according to his precepts and in his service, and of the expectation of sharing in his glorious and heavenly immortality. It is not by any means to be regarded as a regenerating ordinance, though significant of regeneration. It was established in the Christian church by Christ and his apostles, and is binding on his followers to the end of time. The use of water in this ordinance is grounded in part on its qualities as the great element of purification, and on the rites of the ancient dispensation, in which "water and blood: were the divinely appointed symbols of moral renovation and atonement. Result 2- BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND WITH FIRE Mt 3:11; Lu 3:16. Christ is speaking in these places of the wheat and the chaff-the men who receive him and those who reject him. The former class shall be abundantly endued with the teachings and consolations of the Holy Spirit, but "the chaff-he will burn with fire unquenchable." Many here understand "fire" in the widest sense of purification: the purification of Christ's people by the destruction of the ungodly from among them, and their purification from sin by the discipline to which he subjects them. "He shall sit as a refiner's fire." 1 Click any letter to display an alphabetized index of Biblical terms: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z |