SOC250Y1 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 notes
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Converts were said to be awakened and reborn , a transformative redemption that secured an immediate bestowal or charis or grace" and the promise of eternal salvation. Spiritual rebirth was achieved through baptism, a sacred ceremonial that functioned as a ritual of initiation, rite or purification (washing away all prior sins), also also as a means of spiritual reconstitution, empowerment. As celebrated in the "discourse of conversation"", passage through baptism marked the transition to a new state of being: from darkness to ligh, from vice to virtue from death to eternal life. To be pabtised is to be sealed with pureness. Forgiveness and penance: the gospels present christ as granting his disciples the charismatic power of. As to what kinds of sins are to be forgiven, and how often and through whom and by what means, on these issues there remained considerable uncertainty and dispute i. e. no. Paul"s injunction to expel gross sinners from the community.
