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With Bhai Manilal Parekh's A Hindu Portrait of Jesus Christ, which was published in Rajkot in 1953.
he was a Christian, baptised in the Anglican Church. His reason for accepting baptism was that without openly professing to be a disciple of Christ he had no right to preach Christ.
converts from non-Christian religions to Christianity to retain their former religious identity, e.g., Manilal C. Parekh (1885-1967) and Brahmabandhav Upadhyaya (1861-1907)
Sri Swami Narayana / Manilal C. Parekh.
Manilal C. Parekh who took baptism which he considered " a purely spiritual sacrament signifying the dedication of the new disciple to Christ" conferring the privilege to make known the name of Christ. But he strongly felt that "the new disciple should remain within his own community witnessing from there"
Manilal C. Parekh was born in 1885 in Rajkot, western Gujarat, India, belonging to the Bania Jain community. He was attracted to Christ when, during an illness in 1903, after entering University, he read the book Imitation of Christ.
Manilal C. Parekh who took baptism which he considered "a purely spiritual sacrament" - Parekh's complaint was that "the Christian Church had become a civic community instead of a spiritual fellowship"
Manilal C. Parekh who took baptism which he considered " a purely spiritual sacrament signifying the dedication of the new disciple to Christ" conferring the privilege to make known the name of Christ. But he strongly felt that "the new disciple should remain within his own community witnessing from there"
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