<P> By contrast, Anabaptist and Evangelical Protestants recognize baptism as an outward sign of an inward reality following on an individual believer's experience of forgiving grace . Reformed and Methodist Protestants maintain a link between baptism and regeneration, but insist that it is not automatic or mechanical, and that regeneration may occur at a different time than baptism . </P> <P> Churches of Christ consistently teach that in baptism a believer surrenders his life in faith and obedience to God, and that God "by the merits of Christ's blood, cleanses one from sin and truly changes the state of the person from an alien to a citizen of God's kingdom . Baptism is not a human work; it is the place where God does the work that only God can do ." Thus, they see baptism as a passive act of faith rather than a meritorious work; it "is a confession that a person has nothing to offer God". </P> <P> The liturgy of baptism for Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist makes clear reference to baptism as not only a symbolic burial and resurrection, but an actual supernatural transformation, one that draws parallels to the experience of Noah and the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea divided by Moses . Thus, baptism is literally and symbolically not only cleansing, but also dying and rising again with Christ . Catholics believe that baptism is necessary for the cleansing of the taint of original sin, and for that reason infant baptism is a common practice . The Eastern Churches (Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy) also baptize infants on the basis of texts, such as Matthew 19: 14, which are interpreted as supporting full Church membership for children . In these denominations, baptism is immediately followed by Chrismation and Communion at the next Divine Liturgy, regardless of age . Orthodox likewise believe that baptism removes what they call the ancestral sin of Adam . Anglicans believe that Baptism is also the entry into the Church and therefore allows them access to all rights and responsibilities as full members, including the privilege to receive Holy Communion . Most Methodists and Anglicans agree that it also cleanses the taint of what in the West is called original sin, in the East ancestral sin . </P> <P> Eastern Orthodox Christians usually insist on complete threefold immersion as both a symbol of death and rebirth into Christ, and as a washing away of sin . Latin Church Catholics generally baptize by affusion (pouring); Eastern Catholics usually by submersion, or at least partial immersion . However, submersion is gaining in popularity within the Latin Catholic Church . In newer church sanctuaries, the baptismal font may be designed to expressly allow for baptism by immersion . Anglicans baptize by submersion, immersion, affusion or sprinkling . </P>

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