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1/12/11 4:52 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: told him: 1 & 2 you've got to get God to elect and predestin you. 3 & 4 you've got to get yourself a gospel and an inward call 5 somehow you've got to get yourself regenerated 6, 7 8 9 ONLY THEN can you repent and believe, be justified, sanctified and glorified But can't you see Michael, God had already done all this for the jailor, all that both Paul (Damascus road) and the Jailor had to do was begin the journey of life with the help of the Holy Spirit.You didn't think that Paul had the "power" over the jailor at this point did you? Ask yourself the question, "Where was God when all this was going on?" And "Did the Lord have to wait for Paul to 'act' and the jailor to change his sinful, enmity against God, (Ro 8.7) mind, to accept the Lord? Does God have to wait for sinners to love Him, when they are "dead in sin" or does God wait for NO man? Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins" NOTICE the quickening must come to those who "WERE" dead to make them alive in Christ. The sinner cannot quicken himself. |
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1/12/11 2:49 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: Regeneration before and apart from repentance and faith? I don't think so Ooohh Noooo!!! Michael Are you suggesting Regeneration AFTER faith??? Is that "faith" before being born again??? Faith is a human faculty??? Is this "salvation by works" - I see before me??? Ooooohhh Noooo!!! Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER." Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt - [[GOD HAS DEALT]] - to every man the measure of faith." |
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1/12/11 12:06 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: Secondly, it is "baptist-type" believers who retain a continual history of personal NOT Institutional faith, believers baptism NOT Infant Sprinkling, believing the Bible the Authoritative Word of God NOT so called Sacred Tradition AND CERTAINLY NOT Spiritual Whoredome of joining Church and State I love the "baptist" jokes you do Michael???Now don't forget the Baptist Denom has, by now, been "Institutionalised" since its inception in 1521. Time itself has seen to that. As for "infant sprinkling" this after all is the Biblical method and anyway why do you discriminate against babies? God doesn't and HE administers the real baptism, doesn't He. The only reason you have for "believers dunking" is that you demand human declaration to other mortals, as part of your ritual, - rather than complete trust in God for His elect. Remember Michael "the ordo salutis is 1) election, 2) predestination, 3) gospel call 4) inward call 5) regeneration, 6) conversion (faith & repentance), 7) justification, 8) sanctification, and 9) glorification. (Rom 8:29-30)" This gets rid of that nasty old RC 'salvation by works' you used to embrace. |
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7/25/10 2:48 PM |
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Mike wrote: Of course the existing church that was desired to be reformed was the RC version, which reminds us how the Reformation didn't quite reform enough. Restoration, not reformation, is what was needed. Putting clean socks on dusty feet was never a great idea. The Anabaptists may have been right. Ooooohh ye naughty Baptist. |
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4/15/10 11:50 AM |
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Mike wrote: So your daughter was born again of the Spirit before she was 3 years of age, for she was reading Scripture, a spiritual book, and as you have said, it is not possible for the natural man to understand it. That's most unusual. Just goes to show, you Baptists should be baptising babies. |
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4/12/10 4:44 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: Really don't matter what you think, John. It matters immensely what God Himself says and teaches in His word. TYVM And what God's Word teaches is that babies are to be baptised into the same Covenant as their parents whose responsibility is to get baby baptised as part of their Covenant duties. |
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8/5/09 11:12 AM |
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Or alternatively trust in God and as He commands....Gen 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. and don't forget.... Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. Which is a good reason for baptizing them. |
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8/5/09 11:02 AM |
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Yeah there is no need for dunking. Just take them indoors and sprinkle some water on the babies head and the end result is exactly the same. |
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7/5/09 5:03 PM |
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Lurker wrote: 1] Tell us about this water. Is it the type of water that if one drinks he will thirst again or never thirst again? Does it come from the fountain 2] I don't want to sound uncharitable but I believe you Presby fellas are plagued with the same absurd literalism as the rc's and their treatment of the flesh and blood of Jesus. 3] no amount of tap water can do what the Lord has reserved unto Himself: And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, Hello Lurker; I didn't know you were one of the dunkers.1] It's just plain old H2O. What is it you guys use? Perhaps because you require so much, you use H3O? 2] The Covenant God started with Abraham is still extant today. The new covenant is new, as contrasted with Moses, but NOT as contrasted with Abraham or Adam. Baptism has replaced circumcision on command of Christ. Age has not been changed anywhere in Scripture thus infant Baptism is Biblical. What God was able to achieve in Covenant with the sign and seal of circumcision, HE is still able to achieve with baptism. Surprising that isn't it. 3] "no amount of water" - What a great piece of advice for the Baptist denomination. They always require enough to cover the whole body. How very unBiblical. |
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7/5/09 2:27 PM |
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John UK wrote: Acts 2:38-39 KJV #1 Repent and (then) be baptised. #2 Then receive the promise of THE HOLY GHOST, with remission of sins. #3 This promise is unto ALL, with this qualification - ALL THAT GOD CALLS #4 Note that when Peter spake these words, he believed that this promise was solely for his fellow Jews. Since God states in Genesis that He can work with a mortal, and accept the sign and seal, viz circumcision, at the age of 8 days, then there is nothing in the NT which declares otherwise.As for your insistance that the sinner must DO SOMETHING to qualify and autheticate baptism....then need I say John - ye olde "Arminian" again??? #1/#2. Peter is speaking about adults in a missionary circumstance, which is a different thing. BUT When the Parents are ALREADY in Covenant with God, - THEN their children are brought into the SAME Covenant, as Bible teaches by the element of water, and no age discrimmination or profession is posited. #3 God's calling is effectual in the Elect whether they get wet or not. If God had to wait until the sinner did something then HE would wait an eternity. #4. Note that the Bible (Peter's preaching) is for AAAALLLLLL God's people. |
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7/5/09 12:55 PM |
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savedbygrace wrote: especially when all "Biblical examples" of N.T. baptism are by those old enough to believe.) Re Lydia "And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us."Can you please inform all of us what the ages of Lydia's household were.? "And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other" Can you please inform all of us what the ages of Stephanas's household were? If not, could you please retract the above speculation? Thankyou. |
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7/5/09 12:40 PM |
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John UK wrote: How do you get from circumcising ALL Jews, to baptising babies of believers? It's in the Bible. Oh alright I'll be a bit more specific this time John. Now God started the Covenant of Grace with Abraham. We are in the same Covenant today. "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)" God told Abraham, quote; "And he that is EIGHT DAYS OLD shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed." Now the MODE of sign and seal has changed (by Jesus) to Baptism by sprinkle/effusion, as you know. - BUT the age was NEVER changed. Also "For the promise is unto you, and to your CHILDREN" "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." |
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