can someone just elaborate for me what is a 'baptism of blood' - what does it entail?
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This is in the Catholic Religion??? I have NEVER heard of this one!\n\nWOW ya learn something new everyday!!!!\n\n\nCatholic baptism and salvation\nIn Catholic teaching, baptism plays an essential role in salvation. This teaching dates back to the teachings and practices of first century Christians, and the connection between salvation and baptism was not, on the whole, an item of major dispute until Martin Luther's teachings regarding grace. The Church teaches that "baptism is necessary for salvation" (Catechism, 1257) and entry into heaven; and therefore, a person who knowledgeably, willfully and unrepentedy rejects baptism has no hope of salvation. Three forms of baptism are acknowledged by the Church. Baptism by water refers to the traditional baptism where the individual is immersed or infused with water in the name of the Trinity.\n\nThe Church also recognizes two other forms of baptism: "baptism of blood" and "baptism of desire." Baptism of blood refers to unbaptized individuals who are martyred for the Faith, while baptism of desire refers to catechumens who die before they can be baptized. The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes these two forms:\n\nThe Church has always held the firm conviction that those who suffer death for the sake of the faith without having received Baptism are baptized by their death for and with Christ. This Baptism of blood, like the desire for Baptism, brings about the fruits of Baptism without being a sacrament. (1258)\n\nFor catechumens who die before their Baptism, their explicit desire to receive it, together with repentance for their sins, and charity, assures them the salvation that they were not able to receive through the sacrament. (1259)\n\nAs for unbaptized infants, the Church is unsure of their fate; "the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God" (Catechism, 1261).
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The pouring of water or the going under the water has no real value unless your heart accepts Christ.\n\nIn the Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Orthodox Churches and Anglican churches, baptism is always done to the children since they are born with orginal sin, and why risk the soul of the young people, Plus of course entire families were baptised in the New Testment so babies would have been included.\n\nThe majoriy of all Christian religions baptise infants.\nNext it was the accepted method for the first 1600 years of the christian Church.  One has to wonder to those who claim it is of Satan, that it was the proper procedue the entire history of christianity untill just recently last few hundred years.\n\nThe traditoin of baptism comes from the Jewish rite of purification, that is why no one had a problem with Johns baptism,  people were cleanses all the time for all types of reasons,  This is combined with the early blessing of the infants in the temple, dedicating them to God.\n\nSo as you grown, and come of age, you are then asked to make a public expression of your faith, choice to follow God,  in most churches that is called confirmation.\n\nSo you can get baptismed again, it does not do anything extra for you, but can be a sign of you committment, but that is done normally in a confirmation service.\n\nThe Mormoms and a few other churches require a new baptism but it is not bibical to require it.
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You need only one baptized persons consent, here are few quotes to help you along.\nMatt. 28:19-20 - Jesus commands the apostles to baptize all people "in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit." Many Protestant churches are now teaching that baptism is only a symbolic ritual, and not what actually cleanses us from original sin. This belief contradicts Scripture and the 2,000 year-old teaching of the Church.\n\nActs 2:38 - Peter commands them to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ in order to be actually forgiven of sin, not just to partake of a symbolic ritual. \n\nMatt. 28:19-20; Acts 2:38 - there is nothing in these passages or elsewhere in the Bible about baptism being symbolic. There is also nothing about just accepting Jesus as personal Lord and Savior in order to be saved. \n\nMark 16:16 - Jesus said "He who believes AND is baptized will be saved." Jesus says believing is not enough. Baptism is also required. This is because baptism is salvific, not just symbolic. The Greek text also does not mandate any specific order for belief and baptism, so the verse proves nothing about a “believer’s baptism.” \n\nJohn 3:3,5 - unless we are "born again" of water and Spirit in baptism, we cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The Greek word for the phrase "born again" is "anothen" which literally means “begotten from above.” See, for example, John 3:31 where "anothen" is so used. Baptism brings about salvation, not just a symbolism of our salvation. \n\nJob 14:1-4 - man that is born of woman is full of trouble and unclean. Baptism is required for all human beings because of our sinful human nature. \n\nPsalm 51:5 - we are conceived in the iniquity of sin. This shows the necessity of baptism from conception. \n\nMatt. 18:2-5 - Jesus says unless we become like children, we cannot enter into heaven. So why would children be excluded from baptism? \n\nMatt 19:14 - Jesus clearly says the kingdom of heaven also belongs to children. There is no age limit on entering the kingdom, and no age limit for being eligible for baptism. \n\nMark 10:14 - Jesus says to let the children come to Him for the kingdom of God also belongs to them. Jesus says nothing about being too young to come into the kingdom of God. \n\nMark 16:16 - Jesus says to the crowd, "He who believes and is baptized will be saved." But in reference to the same people, Jesus immediately follows with "He who does not believe will be condemned." This demonstrates that one can be baptized and still not be a believer. This disproves the Protestant argument that one must be a believer to be baptized. There is nothing in the Bible about a "believer's baptism." \n\nLuke 18:15 – Jesus says, “Let the children come to me.” The people brought infants to Jesus that he might touch them. This demonstrates that the receipt of grace is not dependent upon the age of reason. \n\n1 Cor. 7:14 – Paul says that children are sanctified by God through the belief of only one of their parents.
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All of God's services are free. You can be baptized in your bathtub at home, if you wish. It does not have to be performed by a priest. It should be done at the will of each individual, not to children who have no idea what it means. Baptism is like a symbol to those around you that you have accepted Salvation. It should come after Salvation. \n\nBaptism is done in personal obedience to God. It has no saving power (just so you understand).
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(Assuming you are performing the baptism of Mary Elizabeth)\n\nMary Elizabeth, I welcome you into the true faith brought to us by Christ Jesus nearly 2000 years ago.  Through the power of God and the water He made holy, be cleansed of your sins and made whole in His eyes.\nI baptise you in the name of the Father (pour water)\nand of the Son (pour water)\nand of the Holy Spirit (pour water).\nAmen.\n\n**********\n\n(Assuming you are about to be baptised)\nOh Lord, I desire to enter into your Church, your faith, and your family.  I desire to be numbered among your followers, counted among your worthy, and welcomed into Heaven at the end of days.  I ask you to initiate me into your Holy church, by this rite of Baptism.  I ask you bless me, and allow the holy water to cleans me of my sins.  Make me whole in your sight.\n(water poured)
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just accept jc and you wont and do what he ask and your in baptism is a public notice to show how much he means to you. he only wants you to do the same as he did for you
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I'm trying to understand how you could be at one time "born again" and then "unborn". Please explain. Either you are a backslidden Christian or you never believed to begin with. If it's the first scenario, we don't have to beg God...He takes us back willingly, He LONGS to have fellowship with us again, so I would reexamine my heart if I were you...something doesn't sound right....the only good book you need is the Bible!
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it's a book which you can read - by Dan Brown.\n\nAnyway the basic plot:\njesus didn't really die, he married Mary Magdalene and went to France with her, where they had kids. His descendants still live on and this is a big ass secret from the world. Christianity itself is a big scam. The End.\n\nThe Controversy:\nduh. The church obviously doesn't like this plotline, as the basis of christianity is that jesus died on the cross and was not a regular man but a son of god.\n\nThat's it.
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It is the mark of the beast.  It basicly means that those who have this number on their head on hand have worshiped the power of the beast and given themselves to it.  What is the beast?  I could say, but that would be no fun.  I will give you some hints though.  It is a religious power that rises out of Europe after the fall of Rome (and 3 of the tribes of the fallen empire are taken out) that acts as sovereign nation.  It has much wealth and wants to change the lasw of God.
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here is a good website explaining it.\nI am not Catholic.
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Christians are commanded to ‘abstain from blood’\n\nActs 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” (There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in.)\n\nAnimal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood\n\nGen. 9:3, 4: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.”\n\nAny animal used for food should be properly bled. One that is strangled or that dies in a trap or that is found after it has died is not suitable for food. (Acts 15:19, 20; compare Leviticus 17:13-16.) Similarly, any food to which whole blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not be eaten.\n\nOnly sacrificial use of blood has ever been approved by God\n\nLev. 17:11, 12: “The soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it. That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: ‘No soul of you must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.’” (All those animal sacrifices under the Mosaic Law foreshadowed the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ.)\nEph. 1:7: “By means of him [Jesus Christ] we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness.”\n\nHow did those who claimed to be Christians in early centuries C.E. understand the Bible’s commands regarding blood?\n\nTertullian (c. 160-230 C.E.): “Let your unnatural ways blush before the Christians. We do not even have the blood of animals at our meals, for these consist of ordinary food. . . . At the trials of Christians you [pagan Romans] offer them sausages filled with blood. You are convinced, of course, that the very thing with which you try to make them deviate from the right way is unlawful for them. How is it that, when you are confident that they will shudder at the blood of an animal, you believe they will pant eagerly after human blood?”—Tertullian, \n\nBlood Transfusions\n\nDoes the Bible’s prohibition include human blood?\n\nYes, and early Christians understood it that way. Acts 15:29 says to “keep abstaining from . . . blood.” It does not say merely to abstain from animal blood. (Compare Leviticus 17:10, which prohibited eating “any sort of blood.”) Tertullian (who wrote in defense of the beliefs of early Christians) stated: “The interdict upon ‘blood’ we shall understand to be (an interdict) much more upon human blood.”—The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, p. 86.\n\nIs a transfusion really the same as eating blood?\n\nIn a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to “keep abstaining from . . . blood”? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?\n\nIn the case of a patient that refuses blood, are there any alternative treatments?\n\nOften simple saline solution, Ringer’s solution, and dextran can be used as plasma volume expanders, and these are available in nearly all modern hospitals. Actually, the risks that go with use of blood transfusions are avoided by using these substances.  \n\nAll ty
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Read Dante's Inferno to learn about it.  It is basically where people who have not been baptized, but have not sinned enough to merit damnation to the lower levels of hell go.  They have "natural" happiness, but are forever kept from seeing God.  The Catholic Church used to talk a lot about it, but does not talk so much about it today.  The concept has not yet been altered or abolished, but things seem to be going in that direction.  The newer concept is that good people who are not baptized, but who would have been had they known about the necessity of Baptism, might be allowed into heaven by God's grace without Baptism.
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Complete immersion in water is a fitting symbol of this personal dedication, as baptism is a symbolic burial.  Your going beneath the baptismal waters represents your dying to your former life course.  Being raised out of the water symbolizes your being made alive to do God’s will. \n\nWell, baptism affords you an opportunity to make your dedication to Jehovah God known publicly.—Romans 10:9, 10.\n\nOf course, that does not mean that you will make no more mistakes, for all of us are imperfect and therefore sin daily. However, as a dedicated, baptized servant of Jehovah, you will have entered into a special relationship with him. Because of your repentance and your humble submission to baptism, Jehovah is willing to forgive your sins on the basis of Jesus’ ransom sacrifice. Baptism thus leads to a clean conscience before God.—1 Peter 3:21.\nThe Greek ba′pti·sma refers to the process of immersion, including submersion and emergence; it is derived from the verb ba′pto, meaning “dip.” (John 13:26.)  In the Bible, “to baptize” is the same as “to immerse.” \n\n5 Greek words translated “baptize,” “baptism,” and so forth, refer to immersing, dipping, or plunging under water. Smith’s Bible Dictionary says: “Baptism properly and literally means immersion.” Certain Bible translations thus refer to “John the Immerser” and “John the dipper.” (Matthew 3:1, Rotherham; Diaglott interlinear) Augustus Neander’s History of the Christian Religion and Church, During the Three First Centuries observes: “Baptism was originally administered by immersion.” The noted French work Larousse du XXe Siècle (Paris, 1928) comments: “The first Christians received baptism by immersion everywhere where water was found.” And the New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “It is evident that Baptism in the early Church was by immersion.” (1967, Volume II, page 56) So today, baptism as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses is a voluntary step involving total water immersion.\n\nBaptism does not guarantee salvation.  The apostle Paul wrote: “Keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”  (Philippians 2:12)  Baptism is only a beginning.  The question is, How can you remain in God’s love?  \n\nIf you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.  Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
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This is a tradition of man and not Biblical based as the only ones who are candidates for baptism are born again believers. The act of Baptism cant save any one or wash away original sin as some claim as only the blood of Christ can do both.The water birth mentioned in John Ch. 3 is in fact our physical birth and not baptism.
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The proper form of baptism is in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as Jesus designated in Matt. 28:19, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."  The clear command of Jesus is to baptize this way.  But, if that is so, then why do we see so many instances in the New Testament where people were baptized "in Jesus' name"? \n\nThe reason they were baptizing "in the name of Jesus" is not because it was a formula, but because the phrase, "in the name of" means "in the authority of.  We can see proof of this in Acts 4:7-10,\n\n"And when they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, 'By what power, or in what name, have you done this?' 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, 'Rulers and elders of the people, 9 if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health.'"\n\n     The Jews asked "by what power, or in what name, have you done this?"  Peter answers and says that it was in the name of Jesus, that they had healed.  In other words, "in the name of Jesus" means that it is by the power and authority found in Christ.\n\nThe only bible that disputes Matthew 28:19 is the New World Translation bible. That Bible was mis-translated and changed by the Jw cult. No bible scholar or language expert takes that bible serious.
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Baptism, is a step in the right direction but not the end result of your efforts. If you die while being baptized you still have no hope of getting to heaven if your heart is evil. Likewise if you die with a pure heart right before you get baptized, God saw the intent of the heart, and you would be saved. He doesn't do the doctrinal nit-picking people do.
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Blood sacrifice/vegetable sacrifice  God rejected the one and accepted the other.  You come to God on his terms or not at all.  The commandment was a blood sacrafice. \nHeb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission of sin.