Baptism

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Those who believe the words of the Lord will be bapized and receive the Holy Ghost.
"Baptism by immersion for the remision of sins" is the third principle of the Gospel.
Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection of Christ and our own spiritual rebirth.
Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection of Christ and our own spiritual rebirth.
  • Tad R. Callister, "The Inevitable Apostasy", pp. 160-168, 221-242
How the true doctrine of baptism has been lost. (pp. 160-168)
Infant Baptism (pp. 221-231)
Baptism by Immersion (pp. 231-236)
Baptism for the Dead (pp. 236-242)
  • Oliver Cowdery in Dean C. Jesse, ed., "The Papers of Joseph Smith", Vol. 1, p. 30
Thoughts on his and Joseph's eagerness for baptism while translating.
"I will leave this subject here, and make a few remarks on the subject of baptism. The baptism of water, without the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost attending it, is of no use; they are necessarily and inseparably connected. An individual must be born of water and the spirit in order to get into the kingdom of God. In the German, the text bears me out the same as the revelations which I have given and taught for the past fourteen years on that subject. I have the testimony to put in their teeth. My testimony has been true all the time. You will find it in the declaration of John the Baptist. (Reads from the German.) John says, 'I baptize you with water, but when Jesus comes, who has the power (or keys) He shall administer the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost.'"
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"There is one God, one Father, one Jesus, one hope of our calling, one baptism. All these three baptisms only make one. Many talk of baptism not being essential to salvation; but this kind of teaching would lay the foundation of their damnation. I have the truth, and am at the defiance of the world to contradict me, if they can."

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