... Roman Catholic Church. It signifies a spiritual seal being placed upon a person, "By this anointing the confirmand receives the "mark," the seal of the Holy Spirit. A seal is a symbol of a person, a sign of personal authority, or ownership of an object." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1295 ... spiritual seal is placed upon a person, because it is the belief of the Methodist church that the Holy Spirit enters a person's body after baptism and it is the Holy Spirit that lives within us which separates us from non-Christians. Other than baptism, the Eucharist is the only ... ...

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... of faith itself. Those theologians who treat faith simply as a transcendental experience of God, taking place in the inwardness of the human spirit, then to minimize the historical element in the Christian religion and to overlook the crucial role of mediation, through the living community of ... say that the chief criterion for a viable religious faith is its ability, or apparent ability, to satisfy those hungers for the human spirit which cannot be satisfied apart from faith. Granted the insufficiency of the two approaches just outlined, we are left with the apparent irrationality ....

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