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Although the phrase "baptized and born again in Christ" occurs in Article XV, the reference is clearly to the scripture passage in John 3:3. [35] The Baptism Office of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer directly connects Baptism and new birth affirming a Baptismal Regeneration view of the meaning of the phrase "Born Again", not a conversion experience.
One of the earliest of the Church Fathers to enunciate clearly and unambiguously the doctrine of baptismal regeneration ("the idea that salvation happens at and by water baptism duly administered") was Cyprian (c. 200 – 258): "While he attributed all the saving energy to the grace of God, he considered the 'laver of saving water' the instrument of God that makes a person 'born again ...
The fundamental requirement of Pentecostalism is that one be born again. [97] The new birth is received by the grace of God through faith in Christ as Lord and Savior. [98] In being born again, the believer is regenerated, justified, adopted into the family of God, and the Holy Spirit's work of sanctification is initiated. [99]
Conversionism, or belief in the necessity of being "born again," has been a constant theme of evangelicalism since its beginnings. [4] To evangelicals, the central message of the gospel is justification by faith in Christ and repentance , or turning away, from sin .
Carter's departure from the SBC didn’t mean he abandoned Southern Baptists and, in fact, the two crossed paths just a few years later for a momentous gathering of the New Baptist Covenant ...
While the exact Greek noun for 'rebirth' or 'regeneration' (Ancient Greek: παλιγγενεσία, romanized: palingenesia) appears just twice in the New Testament (Matthew 19:28 [4] and Titus 3:5), [5] regeneration in Christianity is held to represent a wider theme of re-creation and spiritual rebirth, [6] including the concept of "being ...
An event at Gateway Church, an Evangelical megachurch in Texas. In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance of evangelism, and affirm traditional Protestant teachings on the authority as well as the historicity of the Bible. [1]
The Reformed Churches teach that "The sacrament of baptism is but once to be administered unto any person" (Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 28, Paragraph 7). [9] As such, an individual who was baptized using the Trinitarian formula in a Nicene Christian denomination can be received into the Reformed Church through a profession of faith ...