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221 | Is baptism a sign of the New Covenant? | Luke 22:20 | Reformer Joe | 80376 | ||
The term "real presence" may be kind of broad to describe Roman Catholic beliefs about the Eucharist. Both Luther and Calvin rejected transubstantiation but held to the real presence of Christ in the Supper. --Joe! |
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222 | Is baptism a sign of the New Covenant? | Luke 22:20 | Reformer Joe | 80373 | ||
One difference between the signs of the Old Covenant and the New is that the OT signs for the most part were bloody rituals (circumcision and animal sacrifice), while the Eucharist and baptism are not. Secondly, the signs were changed by Jesus at the Last Supper. The lamb is the focus of the Passover meal (and clearly points to the Lamb of God); yet Jesus picked up the bread and the cup as the elements of the meal pointing to Himself from that point forward. I find this fascinating and would love to delve into the significance of that at some point. Of course, cirumcision was for males only. What differences did you have in mind? --Joe! |
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223 | Is baptism a sign of the New Covenant? | Luke 22:20 | Reformer Joe | 80357 | ||
"And to think I was just asking about baptism as a sign!" Oh, come on, Emmaus. You have been around long enough to know that simple "yes" or "no" answers are as rare as hen's teeth around here! :) But I will break with tradition: "Yes." --Joe! |
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224 | Is baptism a sign of the New Covenant? | Luke 22:20 | Reformer Joe | 80354 | ||
I know the Bible doesn't SAY sign, but does what Jesus SAY MEAN that it is a sign or not? :) --Joe! |
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225 | Is baptism a sign of the New Covenant? | Luke 22:20 | Reformer Joe | 80352 | ||
Hey, Tim. You wrote: "So, I would say no, since Scripture does not call baptism a sign of the new covenant!" The Bible may not directly CALL it a sign of the New Covenant, but can it be legitimately inferred from the teachings regarding baptism? Baptism is tied to the Great Commission, as a sign of discipleship. Therefore, those who are participants in the New Covenant are to be baptized (Matthew 28:19-20), making it a covenant sign and seal, IMO. In addition, we have seen Acts 2:38 quoted all-too-frequently here, but rarely do we see it tied into the following verse: 'Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself."' --Acts 2:38-39 Peter uses some very covenantal terms here when he ties in the promises of God to the hearers AND their children AND those whom God will call from far off. And, again, baptism is prominent in this covenantal language. He also refers to us who were one not a people becoming the people of God (1 Peter 2:9-10), and our baptism is the visible mark of this covenantal sanctification. Obviously, I am coming from a covenant theology point-of-view, but it is clear to me from Scripture that our baptism is a commonality among the covenant people of God: "There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all." --Ephesians 4:4-6 --Joe! |
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226 | Robots? | Gen 4:7 | Reformer Joe | 80330 | ||
"You call that a defense? It is sad that all men sin and are doomed without the blood of Jesus." It says more than "all men sin." 'as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE. THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING, THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS; WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS; THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD, DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN. THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES." --Romans 3:10-18 How do you get the "basic goodness of humanity" out of that? You wrote: "That all men are sinful does not mean that everything they do is sinful. That is an unwarranted conclusion you make." The Bible teaches: "For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God." --Romans 8:6-8 How can one reconcile hostility toward God with "human goodness"? These verses clearly say that the unregenerate are UNABLE to please God. And sin by definition includes everything that is not pleasing to God. "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest." --Ephesians 2:1-3 Non-Christians are basically good children of wrath? "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?" --Jeremiah 17:9 "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart." --Luke 6:45 "For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not." --Romans 7:18 If humans are basically good, as you have said, it should be fairly easy to produce Scriptures which testify to that fact. --Joe! |
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227 | does God know all things? Genesis 22:12 | James 2:21 | Reformer Joe | 80328 | ||
"Oh you deny Jesus knew what men didn't know?" Since the Incarnation, Jesus has two natures, one human and one divine. On earth, Jesus in his human nature was not omniscient (Matthew 24:36). I would also assume that He was not born able to speak or walk, for example. Jesus the man learned things, so it is not inconsistent to say that Jesus saw the faith of men in ways similar to the way you and I do. "Your point is not a point. Jesus saw faith. Don't deny this." Where did I state my denial of this? "Faith is seen by Jesus and God." Agreed. "God saw Abraham's faith." Did that happen before or after he outwardly obeyed, however? "God knows all, but He wants man to do and show his faith." No argument there. --Joe! |
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228 | does God know all things? Genesis 22:12 | James 2:21 | Reformer Joe | 80284 | ||
'I sorry you have problem here because "Jesus seeing their faith" healed and told man to walk.' Yes, that was Jesus the God-man seeing the faith of His fellow humans and physically healing them. What does this have to do with the omniscient Father declaring humans righteous on the basis of faith apart from works (Romans 4:5-6). "Faith needs to be seen and repenting needs to be more than talk." True faith will be seen, but that does not mean that God doesn't know it is there before it is seen in our works. Repentance isn't even talk. Good works are the fruit of repentance and not repentance itself (Luke 3:8; Galatians 5:22-23). Repentance and faith is a disposition of the heart that results in works. --Joe! |
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229 | Robots? | Gen 4:7 | Reformer Joe | 80247 | ||
"You work on the assumption that ALL motives are evil? That is a terribly sad view of man." Is it any more sad than Romans 3:9-18? Or Romans 8:6-8? What do those verses tell us about human nature? --Joe! |
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230 | does God know all things? Genesis 22:12 | James 2:21 | Reformer Joe | 80208 | ||
Greetings. You wrote: "When God sees faith then he says of sinner 'now I know' and justifies." Do you believe that God does not know the mind of the believer before any outward actions take place (baptism or any other form of outward obedience)? I have a real problem with tossing God's omniscience out the window by saying that He has to "see" our faith (as man sees) before He justifies. 'But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."' --1 Samuel 16:7 --Joe! |
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231 | Belief alone saves? | John 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 80204 | ||
" I'm not embarrassed as I accurately depict Calvin, but you seem to compromise him." Then, please, by all means, enlighten me. Take the quote I gave you, and explain him to me. Start here: "Great is our proficiency, when, almost forgetting ourselves, certainly postponing our own reason, we faithfully make it our study to OBEY God and his commandments." Awaiting your instruction... --Joe! |
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232 | Belief alone saves? | John 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 80203 | ||
"When are you saved? With or without obedience?" Please print this so I do not have to answer it again: I am saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. "But if you say it is by faith alone/only, and then start talking about all you have to do to stay saved, then you are inconsistent." Please point out the post where I said works were necessary to "stay saved." And then explain to me why Christian obedience is foreign to Calvinism when Calvin wrote at length about it. --Joe! |
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233 | Belief alone saves? | John 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 80155 | ||
'"Satan is a deadly enemy of both." No Calvinist can believe this.' My apologies for the false attribution. It was actually Martin Luther who wrote the passage you quoted. Calvin wrote the other lengthy passage I gave and you ignored. --Joe! |
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234 | Belief alone saves? | John 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 80154 | ||
"Do you believe I can lose my salvation? The Bible says no." And so do I. '"Satan is a deadly enemy of both." No Calvinist can believe this.' Are you really this obtuse? It was Calvin who WROTE it! "God elects and Satan can do NOTHING to alter it. Right? Whoever writes this cannot believe Calvin's tenets and the inevitibility of the Sovereign's will. My opinion is that you are not consistent. Last word." Simply amazing. I quote Calvin at length to refute your un-Biblical (and un-Calvinist) position on works, and you still persist on calling ME inconsistent. How embarassing... --Joe! |
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235 | Belief alone saves? | John 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 80146 | ||
"He was saved by faith alone/only. Just as Luther and Calvin taught." Luther, who believed and taught faith alone as the instrument of justification, on the importance of good works in the life of the Christian: " The Apostle exhorts all Christians to practice good works after they have embraced the pure doctrine of faith, because even though they have been justified they still have the old flesh to refrain them from doing good. Therefore it becomes necessary that sincere preachers cultivate the doctrine of good works as diligently as the doctrine of faith, for Satan is a deadly enemy of both. Nevertheless faith must come first because without faith it is impossible to know what a God-pleasing deed is." --Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, notes on verse 5:14 --Joe! |
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236 | Belief alone saves? | John 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 80140 | ||
You wrote: "Calvinists must not turn and ask people to work." John Calvin on the importance of Christian obedience: "Hence follows the other principle, that we are not to seek our own, but the Lord's will, and act with a view to promote his glory. Great is our proficiency, when, almost forgetting ourselves, certainly postponing our own reason, we faithfully make it our study to obey God and his commandments. For when Scripture enjoins us to lay aside private regard to ourselves, it not only divests our minds of an excessive longing for wealth, or power, or human favour, but eradicates all ambition and thirst for worldly glory, and other more secret pests. The Christian ought, indeed, to be so trained and disposed as to consider, that during his whole life he has to do with God. For this reason, as he will bring all things to the disposal and estimate of God, so he will religiously direct his whole mind to him. For he who has learned to look to God in everything he does, is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. This is that self-denial which Christ so strongly enforces on his disciples from the very outset, (Matth. xvi. 24,) which, as soon as it takes hold of the mind, leaves no place either, first, for pride, show, and ostentation; or, secondly, for avarice, lust, luxury, effeminacy, or other vices which are engendered by self love. On the contrary, wherever it reigns not, the foulest vices are indulged in without shame; or, if there is some appearance of virtue, it is vitiated by a depraved longing for applause. Show me, if you can, an individual who, unless he has renounced himself in obedience to the Lord's command, is disposed to do good for its own sake. Those who have not so renounced themselves have followed virtue at least for the sake of praise. The philosophers who have contended most strongly that virtue is to be desired on her own account, were so inflated with arrogance as to make it apparent that they sought virtue for no other reason than as a ground for indulging in pride. So far, therefore, is God from being delighted with these hunters after popular applause with their swollen breasts, that he declares they have received their reward in this world, (Matth. 6: 2,) and that harlots and publicans are nearer the kingdom of heaven than they, (Matth. 21: 31.) We have not yet sufficiently explained how great and numerous are the obstacles by which a man is impeded in the pursuit of rectitude, so long as he has not renounced himself. The old saying is true, There is a world of iniquity treasured up in the human soul. Nor can you find any other remedy for this than to deny yourself, renounce your own reason, and direct your whole mind to the pursuit of those things which the Lord requires of you, and which you are to seek only because they are pleasing to Him." --Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 7, Section 2 --Joe! |
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237 | Robots? | Gen 4:7 | Reformer Joe | 80112 | ||
"How does one 'refrain from sin for sinful reasons'? This is interesting. Do you mean that even when unregenerate man does 'good', it is really bad? It is all bad. " Example: A rich benefactor who hates Jesus Christ giving large sums of money to charitable organizations to glorify himself. He refrains from greed in order to feed his pride. Outwardly, his deeds look good, but are not motivated by a desire to love the Lord his God with all his heart, mind, soul, strength. --Joe! |
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238 | Robots? | Gen 4:7 | Reformer Joe | 79896 | ||
When you get the opportunity, I would still like to know what you think: What does the Spirit do through the word? --Joe! |
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239 | Robots? | Gen 4:7 | Reformer Joe | 79894 | ||
"We are on the same page. We are just saying it different." I assure you that we are not in agreement beyond saying that salvation is by faith alone. Saying that we are robots and that God does not expect obedience from the redeemed is not Calvinism and is perniciously unbiblical and would lead many people to think that they are saved when indeed they are not. I think there has been enough pseudo-conversation here. I will not be replying to your nonsense again. |
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240 | Could cain do well? | Gen 4:7 | Reformer Joe | 79888 | ||
"I don't think there is any doubt even within the quote you posted that Calvin believed baptism was for the forgiveness of sins." If you think that Calvin believed that someone was not saved until baptized, there is indeed a great deal of doubt. You may choose to believe as you will, but please do not mischaracterize the theology of others to make them agree with you when they did not. "Calvin believed as I do that the power was not in the water but in God." But you believe justification does not occur until baptism. Re-read Calvin's understanding of Ananias and Saul. He clearly considered Saul to be forgiven prior to "washing away his sins." Whether Calvin was right or wrong, it is a matter of fact that such was his belief. --Joe! |
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