History of baptism
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History of baptism
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John the Baptist, who is considered a forerunner to Christianity, used baptism as the central sacrament of his messianic movement. Christians consider Jesus to have instituted the sacrament of baptism. The earliest Christian baptisms were by immersion. By the third and fourth centuries, baptism involved catechetical instruction as well as chrismation, exorcisms, laying on of hands, and recitation of a creed. In the West, affusion became the normal mode of baptism between the twelfth and fourteen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baptism
date created:
2010-12-09T02:19:09Z
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2024-09-01T00:26:59Z
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