...alone the backbone of Church teaching. Why, that backbone starts with baptism, ' wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven ' ! Doubtless, granted a free hand, and that no previous suspicions had been...

...man a thief, and he 'll steal'; 'give a dog a bad name, and he 'll bite you'; tell a child that he is 'a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven,' and he feels, to say the least, civilly disposed towards religion; tell him...

...and it cannot speak to rebuke sin. The man who has been baptized or sprinkled says, "I am saved, I am a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Who are you, that you should rebuke me? Call me to repentance? Call me to a...

...proceeded to quote the Church's Catechism in which it is stated that by baptism a young person is "made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven." Those phrases, he urged, had no meaning and were untrue for those who had no...

...name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? And it is my baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven.' Christians can only stare and look angry at you : they could only say that...

...Church of England, proving that the church teaches that it is through infant baptism the infant is made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. He quoted from the liturgy of the ceremony itself to further prove that the...

...contained the .Anglican, not the Wesleyan. catechisms and which taught that 'in baptism an infant is made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven'. It had the Order for the Yisitation of the Sick, which had 'the germs of the...

...childhood dilemma—a dilemma faced by many children of their generation: "Tell a child that he is 'a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven,' and he feels, to say the least, civilly disposed toward religion," Harriet...

...to be dealt with during the day: the threefold blessing that Christians receive from God in becoming a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven; and the corresponding threefold commitment Christians must make to resist all...

...gave you this name?" I was able to recite confidently, "My sponsors in baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven ... ("Was that all?" Raymond Sarraute asked in wonderment, when I described my...