In The Polemics of Infant Baptism, B.B. Warfield writes: All Protestants should easily agree that only Christ’s children have a right to the ordinance of baptism. The cleavage in their ranks enters in only when we inquire how the external Church is to hold itself relatively to the recognition of the children of Christ. If [...]
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Warfield: Baptists are the Consistent Puritans
Posted in Baptism, Baptist Distinctives, ecclesiology, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, Puritans and Puritanism, Reformed Theology, Regenerate Church Membership, tagged B.B. Warfield on October 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Quick Thoughts on the Attraction of Eastern Orthodoxy
Posted in Calvinism, Eastern Orthodoxy, ecclesiology, Episcopalianism, evangelicalism, Federal Vision, liberalism, New Perspective on Paul, Presbyterianism, SBC on October 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Over the past several years, I’ve had a few acquaintances who have converted to Eastern Orthodoxy (hereafter EO). Others are currently drawn to it or at some point have been strongly attracted to it. Most of these are people I’ve encountered in various online discussion forums dedicated to the discussion of Reformed theology. All of [...]
S. Lewis Johnson on Dispensationalism and Multiple Ways of Salvation
Posted in dispensationalism, eschatology, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Presbyterianism, S. Lewis Johnson, soteriology on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following is taken from the transcript of this sermon. The Ad Interim Committee of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in their report to the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church in 1944 said that Dispensationalists, “do not hold that God has one plan of salvation for all men but that he [...]
Why Converted Church Membership
Posted in Baptism, baptismal regeneration, Baptist Distinctives, Baptist Why and Why Not, church membership, ecclesiology, Episcopalianism, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, Regenerate Church Membership, Roman Catholicism, SBC, soteriology on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baptist Why and Why Not (1900) Chapter 12: Why Converted Church-Membership By Rev. J. O. Rust, LL. D. Pastor Edgefield Baptist Church. Nashville, Tennessee But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness [...]
Why Baptist and Not Presbyterian
Posted in Baptism, Baptist Distinctives, Baptist Why and Why Not, Calvinism, ecclesiology, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, SBC, Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baptist Why and Why Not (1900) Chapter 6: Why Baptist and Not Presbyterian By T. S. Dunaway, D. D. Fredericksburg, Virginia Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God [...]
Calvinists the cause of the “Down-Grade?”
Posted in Arminianism, C.H. Spurgeon, Calvinism, church history, Down-Grade Controversy, ecclesiology, heresy, liberalism, Presbyterianism, tagged Bob L. Ross on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to Bob L. Ross, Spurgeon blamed the Down Grade on Calvinism, or specifically, the “Hybrid Calvinism” that Ross says is taught by Reformed paedobaptists as well as some “Reformed Baptists” and those who are affiliated with Founders Ministries. As will soon become clear, nothing could be further from the truth, unless by “Hybrid Calvinism” [...]
Why I Am Now a Baptist
Posted in Baptism, church membership, confessions, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, Regenerate Church Membership, Westminster Standards on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: (2/15/09) Instead of merely linking to a post on the PuritanBoard, where I was then serving as a moderator, I thought that as I transfer older posts to this new blog that I’d include the full text here. The following is the substance of an email I sent to both the pastor of the [...]
