Pembaptisan Yesus: Perbedaan antara revisi

:"Dan [Naaman] menyelamkan diri ... tujuh kali di sungai Yordan" [2 Raja-raja 5:14]. Hal itu bukannya tidak berarti bagi Naaman pada zaman dahulu, ketika menderita penyakit kusta, dimurnikan pada saat dibaptis, tetapi [merupakan] sebagai indikasi kepada kita. Karena sebagaimana kita berpenyakit kusta dosa, kita dibuat menjadi bersih, dengan air kudus dan Firman Tuhan, dari pelanggaran-pelanggaran kita yang lama, dihidupkan kembali secara rohani sebagai bayi-bayi yang baru lahir, sebagaimana Tuhan menyatakan: "Kalau seorang tidak dilahirkan kembali melalui darah dan Roh, ia tidak dapat masuk ke dalam Kerajaan Sorga."

 

:"When we are baptized, we are enlightened. Being enlightened, we are adopted as sons. Adopted as sons, we are made perfect. Made perfect, we become immortal...."and sons all of the Most High" [Psalm 82:6]. This work is variously called grace, illumination, perfection, and washing. It is a washing by which we are cleansed of sins; a gift of grace by which the punishments due our sins are remitted; an illumination by which we behold that holy light of salvation -- that is, by which we see God clearly; and we call that perfection which leaves nothing lacking. Indeed, if a man know God, what more does he need? Certainly it were out of place to call that which is not complete a true gift of God's grace. Because God is perfect, the gifts He bestows are perfect".