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Baptism
Justin, begins where the Christian life begins. "We tell those who accept Christian teaching, and promise to live the Christian life, to pray and fast for forgiveness, we ourselves praying and fasting with them. We then bring them where there is water, and they are born again, just as all we Christians have been. Washed in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit ... as we learned from the Apostles... We then bring them to the place where the other Christians are assembled."
"We all pray, for ourselves, for the newly baptized, and for others everywhere, asking God that, as we have learned the truth, we may now show by our deeds that we are good citizens and keepers of the commandments, and so we may be saved with eternal salvation. After the prayers we greet each other as brothers."1 Tertullian (see picture at right), a Roman lawyer born in Carthage in North Africa, became a Christian in A.D. 195. As a lawyer he had learned to choose vivid and persuasive words. He returned to Carthage and used this skill as a Christian teacher, presbyter, and writer. Tertullian always has something to say which makes the hearer listen, and think, and remember.
1"The First Advance - Church History 1: AD 29-500" by John Foster.
"Baptism begins where the Christian life begins."
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