Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of baptism in the Old Testament were given to authorize ...

The promise of this blessed inheritance is fulfilled in the New Covenant. Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public ...

This points to baptism symbolising an old way of life dying and a new way of life being raised as someone goes down into the water and then back up from it. The dying of an old way of life is only ...

And baptism is a public declaration. It is a declaration to people around and to God that this is a new life for me. Old life's gone new life's arrived. NATHAN: I was baptised as a baby but some ...