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To: ADSUM

Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.d 6What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.e 7Do not be amazed that I told you, ‘You must be born from above. John 2:5-7


Yes, and no one can confess that Jesus is lord except by the holy spirit, also meaning spiritual baptism.


62 posted on 06/12/2015 4:45:09 PM PDT by ravenwolf (s letters scripture.)
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To: ravenwolf

Your comment: “Yes, and no one can confess that Jesus is lord except by the holy spirit, also meaning spiritual baptism.”

What is your basis in your statement?

Jesus gave us an example of His Baptism by John the Baptist.

It is the teaching of the Catholic Church that when the baptism of water becomes a physical or moral impossibility, eternal life may be obtained by the baptism of desire or the baptism of blood. (I) The baptism of desire (baptismus flaminis) is a perfect contrition of heart, and every act of perfect charity or pure love of God which contains, at least implicitly, a desire (votum) of baptism. The Latin word flamen is used because Flamen is a name for the Holy Ghost, Whose special office it is to move the heart to love God and to conceive penitence for sin.


68 posted on 06/12/2015 4:59:07 PM PDT by ADSUM
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