What is the meaning of each baptismal vow?

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I am unable to find any essays on the meaning of each baptismal vow? Are there any essays or talks on-line that explain, explicate, expound and elucidate the individual vows? I am mostly interested in what we renounce.

-Do you reject sin and choose to live in the freedom of the sons and daughters of God?
-Do you reject the glamour of evil and choose to be mastered by evil?
-Do you reject Satan and refuse to be mastered by sin?

I’m attempting to prepare a lesson and need some help.

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atassina

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Is this for a blog? They seem pretty self explanatory to me. 🤷
 
Pianist Clare,
If they seem pretty obvious to you, please explain the meaning of the renunciations. For example, what are all the inferred meaning of glamor? Skin-level attractiveness, witchcraft, charms? What does it fully mean not to be mastered by sin if we have already rejected sin. Why then the second vow. And if we have already rejected sin, why have the vow about rejecting Satan the father of sin and prince of darkness? What does each vow mean in itself distinct from the other two and what do all three vows mean as a unity?

I am preparing a lesson for a class.

atassinari
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Pianist Clare,
If they seem pretty obvious to you, please explain the meaning of the renunciations. For example, what are all the inferred meaning of glamor? Skin-level attractiveness, witchcraft, charms? What does it fully mean not to be mastered by sin if we have already rejected sin. Why then the second vow. And if we have already rejected sin, why have the vow about rejecting Satan the father of sin and prince of darkness? What does each vow mean in itself distinct from the other two and what do all three vows mean as a unity?

I am preparing a lesson for a class.

atassinari
enjoy some cake
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I suspect that the reason you have found no essays may be that you are over thinking it; they are fairly self-explanatory.

There is no sin that does not have some attractive aspects to it, or no one would pursue sinning.
 
Why are there any essays or books or devotions to the Eucharist. It’s fairly simple to me. The sisters told me in second grade that it was the body of Jesus. I believed it and have never stopped. Why confuse the matter?
 
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Why are there any essays or books or devotions to the Eucharist. It’s fairly simple to me. The sisters told me in second grade that it was the body of Jesus. I believed it and have never stopped. Why confuse the matter?
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A person either professes the faith, and professes not go against the faith or they don’t.
It doesn’t have anything to do with Eucharist in this instance, so why are you bringing that up?

We renounce Satan and all his evil works. All his influences.
Period.
 
atassina said:
Why are there any essays or books or devotions to the Eucharist. It’s fairly simple to me. The sisters told me in second grade that it was the body of Jesus. I believed it and have never stopped. Why confuse the matter?
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Do you find the essays and books confusing? I am really not understanding how you got from baptismal promises, to books and essays about the Eucharist.

There are books and essays about the Eucharist because it is a subject with so much depth. I suspect that if you look, you will find there are essays and books about Baptism, as it also has much depth.

What you initially asked for was any essays on the baptismal promises, which are a minor part of the rite of Baptism, and not essential to it; and they are fairly self-explanatory. The questions you asked about (“Do you…) are like asking if there are essays about the Priest’s (or deacon’s or EMHC’s) statement “Body of Christ” or Blood of Christ” and the answer “Amen”. I doubt you may find any essays about that either, as it is self explanatory.

I am not questioning your search for more information; I am simply responding that the baptismal promises are not matters of great theological complications; they are apparent on the face of them. You seem to want to make them complicated. They are not.

Devil worship seems to be something that is about as old as human existence; certainly elements of it can be found in ancient cultures. And while many may be naive about it’s current existence, there is evidence that it still exists - certainly there have been reports from a few police agencies that they have found evidence that some few people may be practicing it. But the question "Do you reject Satan…’ doesn’t need explanation.

Neither does one need an in-depth analysis of rejecting the glamour of sin; a simple explanation that all sin has some attractive part to it is sufficient.
 
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