Which Church document declares John 3:5 as being about Baptism?

[MarcoPolo]

And for that matter, which documents declare some of the other Scripture verses that have dogmatic interpretations?

 

[sheila0405]

Start with the Vatican website. It has a list of Church documents. Also, any good Catholic study Bible has footnotes. Those will help to lead you to good sources for proper interpretation of Holy Scripture. Hope this helped. I am a former Protestant Fundamentalist who converted in 2004. My interpretation of the Bible was turned on its ear. I am still learning and I love it!

 

[MarcoPolo]

Start with the Vatican website. It has a list of Church documents. Also, any good Catholic study Bible has footnotes. Those will help to lead you to good sources for proper interpretation of Holy Scripture. Hope this helped. I am a former Protestant Fundamentalist who converted in 2004. My interpretation of the Bible was turned on its ear. I am still learning and I love it!

Thank you!
Happy belated welcome home to you!

 

[Pete_Holter]

And for that matter, which documents declare some of the other Scripture verses that have dogmatic interpretations?

Greetings!

Here are the ones from The Council of Trent (available online):

ON BAPTISM
CANON II.-If any one saith, that true and natural water is not of necessity for baptism, and, on that account, wrests, to some sort of metaphor, those words of our Lord Jesus Christ; Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost; let him be anathema.

ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
CANON III.–If any one saith, that those words of the Lord the Saviour, Receive ye the Holy Ghost, whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained, are not to be understood of the power of forgiving and of retaining sins in the Sacrament of penance, as the Catholic Church has always from the beginning understood them; but wrests them, contrary to the institution of this sacrament, to the power of preaching the gospel; let him be anathema.

ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION
CANON I.–If any one saith, that Extreme Unction is not truly and properly a sacrament, instituted by Christ our Lord, and promulgated by the blessed apostle James; but is only a rite received from the Fathers, or a human figment; let him be anathema. (cf. James 5:14-16).

ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
CANON II.–If any one saith, that by those words, Do this for the commemoration of me (Luke xxii. 19), Christ did not institute the apostles priests; or, did not ordain that they, and other priests should offer His own body and blood; let him be anathema.

 

[MementoMori3283]

And for that matter, which documents declare some of the other Scripture verses that have dogmatic interpretations?

Baptism - The Catechism of the Catholic Church

1225 In his Passover Christ opened to all men the fountain of Baptism. He had already spoken of his Passion, which he was about to suffer in Jerusalem, as a “Baptism” with which he had to be baptized.22 The blood and water that flowed from the pierced side of the crucified Jesus are types of Baptism and the Eucharist, the sacraments of new life.23 From then on, it is possible "to be born of water and the Spirit"24 in order to enter the Kingdom of God.

See where you are baptized, see where Baptism comes from, if not from the cross of Christ, from his death. There is the whole mystery: he died for you. In him you are redeemed, in him you are saved.25

22 Mk 10:38; cf. Lk 12:50.
23 Cf. Jn 19:34; 1 Jn 5:6-8.
24 Cf. Jn 3:5.
25 St. Ambrose, De sacr. 2,2,6L 16,444; cf. Jn 3:5.

 

[Todd_Easton]

Writing about A.D. 150, St. Justin Martyr, in his First Apology, chapter 61, gives that (John 3:5 = baptism) explanation.

 

[teachccd]

John 3:5 was what I believe to be one of the only passages in which all of the Early Church Fathers held in unison to the reference of baptism. There was no debate about this among the creible Fathers and only after the Protestant Reformation did we find those who opposed this teaching due to their “faith only” stance. So check the writings of any Early Church Father and you will see this evidenced…teachccd

 

[MarcoPolo]

John 3:5 was what I believe to be one of the only passages in which all of the Early Church Fathers held in unison to the reference of baptism. There was no debate about this among the creible Fathers and only after the Protestant Reformation did we find those who opposed this teaching due to their “faith only” stance. So check the writings of any Early Church Father and you will see this evidenced…teachccd

I thought there was a document that specifically declared that as an authentic interpretation. Aren’t there like 6 or 8 verses that have this character?