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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Christian theological concept</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Baptized_by_fire_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Baptized by fire (disambiguation)">Baptized by fire (disambiguation)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Fire_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Baptism of Fire (disambiguation)">Baptism of Fire (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p>The phrase <b>baptism by fire</b>, <b>baptism of fire</b> or <b>baptism with fire</b> is a Christian theological concept originating from the words of <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a> in <a href="/wiki/Matthew_3:11" title="Matthew 3:11">Matthew 3:11</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sibanda2003_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sibanda2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It also has related meanings in military history and popular culture. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Christianity">Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term <i>baptism with fire</i> originated from the words of <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a> in <a href="/wiki/Matthew_3:11" title="Matthew 3:11">Matthew 3:11</a> (and the parallel passage in Luke 3:16).:<sup id="cite_ref-Sibanda2003_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sibanda2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Matthew 3:11 "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall <b>baptize</b> you with the Holy Ghost, and <b>with fire</b>" <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a> 1611</p></blockquote> <p>Many Christian writers, such as <a href="/wiki/John_Kitto" title="John Kitto">John Kitto</a>, have noted that this could be taken as a <a href="/wiki/Hendiadys" title="Hendiadys">hendiadys</a>, the Spirit as fire, or as pointing out two distinct baptisms - one by the Spirit, one by fire. If two baptisms, then various meanings have been suggested for the second baptism, by fire - to purify each single individual who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, to cast out demons and to destroy the stronghold of the flesh by the Fire of God.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of this expression, <a href="/wiki/J._H._Thayer" class="mw-redirect" title="J. H. Thayer">J. H. Thayer</a> commented: "to overwhelm with fire (those who do not repent), i.e., to subject them to the terrible penalties of hell".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> W. E. Vine noted regarding the "fire" of this passage: "of the fire of Divine judgment upon the rejectors of Christ, Matt. 3:11 (where a distinction is to be made between the baptism of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the fire of Divine retribution)".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arndt and Gingrich speak of the "fire of divine Judgment Mt. 3:11; Lk. 3:16".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, as <a href="/wiki/John_William_McGarvey" title="John William McGarvey">J. W. McGarvey</a> observed, the phrase "baptize you ... in the fire" also refers to the day of Pentecost, because there was a "baptism of fire" which appears as the tongue of fire on that day. Parted "tongues," which were mere "like as of fire ... sat upon" each of the apostles. Those brothers were "overwhelmed with the fire of The Holy Spirit" on that occasion.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Henry" title="Matthew Henry">Matthew Henry</a> comments that as "fire make[s] all it seizes like itself... so does the Spirit make the soul holy like itself."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept of baptism by 'fire and the Holy Spirit' lies behind the <a href="/wiki/Consolamentum" title="Consolamentum">Consolamentum</a> rite of the Cathars or Albigenses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Methodism_(inclusive_of_the_holiness_movement)"><span id="Methodism_.28inclusive_of_the_holiness_movement.29"></span>Methodism (inclusive of the holiness movement)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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style="background-color:#f8e0e0;;font-size:160%;"><a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Wesley_clipped.png" class="mw-file-description" title="John Wesley"><img alt="John Wesley" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/John_Wesley_clipped.png/125px-John_Wesley_clipped.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/John_Wesley_clipped.png/188px-John_Wesley_clipped.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/John_Wesley_clipped.png/250px-John_Wesley_clipped.png 2x" data-file-width="283" data-file-height="349" /></a></span><div class="sidebar-caption" style="padding-bottom:0.4em;"><a href="/wiki/John_Wesley" title="John Wesley">John Wesley</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible 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title="Pietism">Pietism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_theology" title="Wesleyan theology">Wesleyan theology</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#f8e0e0;;background:#f8e0e0;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Methodist_doctrine" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist doctrine">Doctrine</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base, #202122 ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-bottom:0;"> Doctrinal standards</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding-top:0;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> <ul><li><a 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style="padding-bottom:0;"> Distinctive beliefs and practices</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding-top:0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assurance_(theology)#John_Wesley_and_Methodism" title="Assurance (theology)">Assurance of faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conditional_preservation_of_the_saints" title="Conditional preservation of the saints">Conditional preservation<br />of the saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priesthood_of_all_believers" title="Priesthood of all believers">Priesthood of all believers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saints_in_Methodism" title="Saints in Methodism">Sainthood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_Quadrilateral" title="Wesleyan Quadrilateral">Four sources of theological authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">Covenant theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Substitutionary_atonement" title="Substitutionary atonement">Substitutionary atonement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imparted_righteousness" title="Imparted righteousness">Imparted righteousness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Methodist" title="Ten Commandments">Moral law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Born_again" title="Born again">New birth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_will_in_theology#Classical_Arminianism_and_Wesleyan_Arminianism" title="Free will in theology">Free will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outward_holiness" title="Outward holiness">Outward holiness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prevenient_grace" title="Prevenient grace">Prevenient grace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the_Eucharist#Methodist" title="Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist">Real presence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctification_in_Christianity#Methodism" title="Sanctification in Christianity">Sanctification (growth in grace)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Sabbatarianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Sabbatarianism">Sunday Sabbatarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_perfection" title="Christian perfection">Christian perfection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_work_of_grace" title="Second work of grace">Second work of grace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit#Entire_sanctification" title="Baptism with the Holy Spirit">Baptism with the Holy Spirit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_sin#Methodist_views" title="Christian views on sin">Views on sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Works_of_piety" title="Works of piety">Works of piety</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Works_of_mercy" title="Works of mercy">Works of mercy</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#f8e0e0;;background:#f8e0e0;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Methodist_worship" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist worship">Worship</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> 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class="mw-redirect" title="Entire sanctification">Entire sanctification § Wesleyan teaching</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a> (inclusive of the <a href="/wiki/Holiness_movement" title="Holiness movement">holiness movement</a>), baptism by fire is synonymous with the <a href="/wiki/Second_work_of_grace" title="Second work of grace">second work of grace</a>: <a href="/wiki/Entire_sanctification" class="mw-redirect" title="Entire sanctification">entire sanctification</a>, which is also known as <a href="/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit#Sanctification" title="Baptism with the Holy Spirit">Baptism with the Holy Spirit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sibanda2003_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sibanda2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_William_Fletcher" title="John William Fletcher">John Fletcher</a>, Methodism's systematic theologian, explicated baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire as the experience of Christian perfection (entire sanctification): "Scripture reckons the coming of the spiritual kingdom of Christ with power into the heart of believers, and the baptism of fire, or the perfect love, which burns up the chaff of sin, thoroughly purges God's floor, and make the hearts of perfect believers a habitation of God through the Spirit, and not a nest for indwelling sin."<sup id="cite_ref-Fletcher_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fletcher-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Fletcher quoted <a href="/wiki/George_Whitefield" title="George Whitefield">George Whitefield</a> who answered the reason that the second blessing was given after the <a href="/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus" title="Ascension of Jesus">Ascension of Jesus</a>: "Because till then He was Himself on the earth, and had not taken on Him the kingly office, not pleaded the merits of His death before His heavenly Father, by which he purchased that invaluable blessing for us."<sup id="cite_ref-Fletcher_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fletcher-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fletcher described entire sanctification as being the "full measure of the spirit, which perfects Christian believers."<sup id="cite_ref-Fletcher_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fletcher-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theology is echoed in the doctrine of the various Methodist denominations:<sup id="cite_ref-Bucke1964_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bucke1964-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Justified persons, while they do not outwardly commit sin, are nevertheless conscious of sin still remaining in the heart. They feel a natural tendency to evil, a proneness to depart from God, and cleave to the things of earth. Those that are sanctified wholly are saved from all inward sin—from evil thoughts and evil tempers. No wrong temper, none contrary to love remains in the soul. All their thoughts, words, and actions are governed by pure love. Entire sanctification takes place subsequently to justification, and is the work of God wrought instantaneously upon the consecrated, believing soul. After a soul is cleansed from all sin, it is then fully prepared to grow in grace. —"Articles of Religion", <i>Book of Discipline</i>, <a href="/wiki/Free_Methodist_Church" title="Free Methodist Church">Free Methodist Church</a><sup id="cite_ref-Bucke1964_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bucke1964-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In the view of Fletcher, the "latter day glory" would "exceed the first effusion of the Spirit" at <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a>; he wrote: "Seeing that they on the day of Pentecost bare witness to the grace of our Lord, so shall we, and like them spread the name of love."<sup id="cite_ref-HHC2012_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HHC2012-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To this end, "Fletcher taught that the day of Pentecost was the opening of the dispensation of the Spirit, and he insisted that believers now are called upon to receive the same baptismal fire."<sup id="cite_ref-HHC2012_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HHC2012-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jabulani Sibanda, a theologian in the <a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_theology" title="Wesleyan theology">Wesleyan-Arminian</a> tradition, says with regard to <a href="/wiki/Entire_sanctification" class="mw-redirect" title="Entire sanctification">entire sanctification</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-Sibanda2003_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sibanda2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>This experience is important because it is the second work of grace. It leads to purity of heart, and it is the baptism by fire (Matthew 3:11) in which impurities are dealt with. This experience symbolizes the death to self as Paul said that he is crucified with Christ, “…I do not live but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). It is the singleness of the eye. “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness” (Matthew 6:22–23 KJV). Singleness of the eye is the opposite of what James addresses as double mindedness. He calls people to cleanse their hands and purify their hearts. The person focuses on God alone; he or she is no longer unstable. It is also an experience of devotedness and separateness to God. This is an experience of one giving oneself totally to God.<sup id="cite_ref-Sibanda2003_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sibanda2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Irwinism">Irwinism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Irwinism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Fire-Baptized_Holiness_Church" title="Fire-Baptized Holiness Church">Fire-Baptized Holiness Church</a>, under the leadership of Benjamin Hardin Irwin, taught a <a href="/wiki/Third_work_of_grace" title="Third work of grace">third work of grace</a> (baptism with fire) subsequent to the first work of grace and <a href="/wiki/Second_work_of_grace" title="Second work of grace">second work of grace</a> of Methodism. The Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, as with Methodism, held that the first work of grace was the <a href="/wiki/Born_again#Methodism" title="Born again">New Birth</a>; the second work of grace was <a href="/wiki/Christian_perfection#Wesleyan_teaching" title="Christian perfection">entire sanctification</a> (baptism with the Holy Spirit).<sup id="cite_ref-FBA1900_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FBA1900-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, whereas John Fletcher (the systematic theologian of Methodism) regarded the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire as being the second work of grace, Benjamin Hardin Irwin distinguished between baptism with the Holy Ghost and baptism with fire, holding that the latter was a third work of grace. The Constitution and General Rules of the Fire Baptized Holiness Association, with respect to the third work of grace (baptism of fire) taught:<sup id="cite_ref-FBA1900_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FBA1900-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We do not believe that the baptism with fire is an experience independent of, or disassociated from, the Holy Ghost, but we do believe that the divine baptism of Jesus is two-fold. Christ's baptism is with the Holy Ghost and with fire. We believe that it is He, the divine Paraclete, abiding in the heart of the purified believer, who creates an intense longing for the experience of the baptism with fire, and, as the Executive of the Godhead, baptizes those in whom He dwells with the baptism with fire, and that none can receive the <i>experience</i> of the baptism with fire except those in whom the personal Holy Ghost already abides.<sup id="cite_ref-FBA1900_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FBA1900-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>However, after the advent of <a href="/wiki/Holiness_Pentecostalism" title="Holiness Pentecostalism">Holiness Pentecostalism</a>, the majority of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church accepted the Holiness Pentecostal position of the third work of grace being <a href="/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit#Classical_Pentecostalism" title="Baptism with the Holy Spirit">baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire</a> evidenced by <a href="/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues" title="Speaking in tongues">speaking in tongues</a>, while another part of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (now called the Bible Holiness Church) returned to the Methodist position of two works of grace: (1) New Birth and (2) entire sanctification (Baptism with the Holy Spirit).<sup id="cite_ref-FBHCGA2024_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FBHCGA2024-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jones1974_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones1974-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pentecostalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks hlist" style="width:18em;border-collapse:collapse;color:#000000"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="background-color: #FDEEAA; color:#000000">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Pentecostalism" title="Category:Pentecostalism"> a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background-color: #FDEEAA; color:#000000;font-size:150%; color:#000000; background-color: #FDEEAA; padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Chama_pentecoste.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Chama_pentecoste.svg/80px-Chama_pentecoste.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Chama_pentecoste.svg/120px-Chama_pentecoste.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Chama_pentecoste.svg/160px-Chama_pentecoste.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="744" data-file-height="1052" /></a></span><div class="sidebar-caption"><span style="color:Black;">Tongues as of fire representing the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit_in_Christianity" title="Holy Spirit in Christianity">Holy Spirit</a> on <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a> </span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color: #FDEEAA; 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title="Glossolalia">glossolalia</a> (speaking in tongues).<sup id="cite_ref-Wayne2018_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wayne2018-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Holiness_Pentecostalism" title="Holiness Pentecostalism">Holiness Pentecostalism</a>, baptism with the Holy Spirit evidenced by <a href="/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues" title="Speaking in tongues">speaking in tongues</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Third_work_of_grace" title="Third work of grace">third work of grace</a>, following the first work of grace (the <a href="/wiki/Born_again#Pentecostalism" title="Born again">New Birth</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Second_work_of_grace" title="Second work of grace">second work of grace</a> (<a href="/wiki/Christian_perfection#Wesleyan_teaching" title="Christian perfection">entire sanctification</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Fudge2003_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fudge2003-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The baptism of the Holy Ghost is taught by Holiness Pentecostals to empower the Christian believer for service to God.<sup id="cite_ref-Fudge2003_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fudge2003-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, the term relates to <a href="/wiki/Confirmation_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)">confirmation</a> and the phrase "baptism of fire" or "baptism by fire" appears several times in <a href="/wiki/Standard_works" title="Standard works">Latter-day Saint canonized scripture</a>, including: <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_and_Covenants/Section_20#41" class="extiw" title="s:The Doctrine and Covenants/Section 20">Doctrine and Covenants 20:41</a>; <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_and_Covenants/Section_33#11" class="extiw" title="s:The Doctrine and Covenants/Section 33">Doctrine and Covenants 33:11</a>; <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_and_Covenants/Section_39#6" class="extiw" title="s:The Doctrine and Covenants/Section 39">Doctrine and Covenants 39:6</a>; and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon_(1981)/2_Nephi#31:13" class="extiw" title="s:Book of Mormon (1981)/2 Nephi">2 Nephi 31:13–17</a>. </p><p>The relation between the confirmation of the Holy Ghost and the baptism of fire is explained by <a href="/wiki/David_A._Bednar" title="David A. Bednar">David A. Bednar</a>, a church <a href="/wiki/Apostle_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Apostle (Latter Day Saints)">apostle</a>: "the Holy Ghost is a sanctifier who cleanses and burns dross and evil out of human souls as though by fire".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_usage">Military usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Military usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the military usage, a baptism by fire refers to a soldier's first time in battle.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writers such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Deedy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Deedy (page does not exist)">John Deedy</a> have stated that the term in a military sense entered the English language in 1822 as a translation of the <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> phrase <i>baptême du feu</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From military usage, the term has extended into many other areas in relation to an <a href="/wiki/Initiation" title="Initiation">initiation</a> into a new role.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "Baptism By Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War" compilation features 1,300 documents spanning 1947 to 1954, offering insights on the Korean Peninsula. Released on the war's 60th anniversary, it constitutes the largest set of CIA records on the topic, coinciding with the "New Documents and New Histories: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Korean War" conference jointly organized by the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and the CIA in Independence, Missouri."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The phrase 'baptism of fire' has also entered into popular culture. An example is the "<a href="/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_(song)" title="Brothers in Arms (song)">Brothers in Arms</a>" song by the <a href="/wiki/Dire_Straits" title="Dire Straits">Dire Straits</a>, which covers the British involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Through these fields of destructions<br />baptisms of fire<br />I've witnessed your suffering<br />as the battle raged higher.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit" title="Baptism with the Holy Spirit">Baptism with the Holy Spirit</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSibanda2003" class="citation book cs1">Sibanda, Jabulani (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://didache.nazarene.org/index.php/filedownload/regional-theology-conferences/africa-speaks/234-afrspk-14-sibanda/file"><i>Why is the Doctrine and Experience of Holiness Important?</i></a>. p. 114.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Why+is+the+Doctrine+and+Experience+of+Holiness+Important%3F&rft.pages=114&rft.date=2003&rft.aulast=Sibanda&rft.aufirst=Jabulani&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdidache.nazarene.org%2Findex.php%2Ffiledownload%2Fregional-theology-conferences%2Fafrica-speaks%2F234-afrspk-14-sibanda%2Ffile&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptism+by+fire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature - Volume 1 - Page 640 John Kitto 1865 <a href="/wiki/John_McClintock_(theologian)" title="John McClintock (theologian)">John McClintock</a>, James Strong - 1871 "Whether this be taken as a hendiadys = the Spirit as fire, or as pointing out two distinct baptisms, the one by the Spirit, the other by fire; and whether, on the latter assumption, the baptism by fire means the destruction by Christ of his enemies (demons and fresh) in the life of each Christian"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThayer1958">Thayer 1958</a>, p. 94</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVine1991">Vine 1991</a>, p. 308</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFArndtGingrich1967">Arndt & Gingrich 1967</a>, p. 737</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcGarvey1875">McGarvey 1875</a>, p. 38. 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Accessed February 23, 2024.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John G. Deedy. "The Catholic book of days", 1990, p. 21 "Another incidental piece of religious history connected with that war: it provided the term "baptism of fire" its particular modern application; namely, a soldier's first experience in battle. baptized martyrs who died at the stake thus experienced a "</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tribune - Volume 71 - Page 31 2007 "ANYONE seeking a practical definition of the term "baptism of fire" should have been in Edinburgh last month, when Hannah McGill made her debut as artistic director of the city's International Film Festival. Edinburgh's film festival has been ..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/static/Baptism-by-Fire-CIA-Analysis.pdf">"Baptism by Fire"</a>, cia.gov. Accessed February 23, 2024.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptism_by_fire&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArndtGingrich1967" class="citation cs2">Arndt, William; Gingrich, F. W. 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