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NASB | Romans 3:1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 3:1 Then what is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? |
Subject: old versus new testament |
Bible Note: Dear bowler, It is clear that you're getting most of your information on Baptismal regeneration from uninformed credo-baptist. I'm a credo-baptist myself. When one actually takes the time to read what they themselves wrote -- not read something said by others about what they wrote! -- it is clear that they do not believe that baptism has a salvific component. (As I stated in my earlier posts in this thread.) You won't find the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration in the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran) or in the Westminster Confession (Calvinism). It takes a lot of time and effort -- intellectual sweat, so to speak -- to study church history. However, since there so many others with all kinds of aberrant agendas, it is the only way. God was gracious to place us in a time where we have at our fingertips what those bunch of dead guys actually wrote, "so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes." (Ephesians 4:14 ESV) At one time the entire visible church might have been called "Roman Catholic." That certainly was the situation when the Council of Orange -- a council formed from all the churches in the world -- decided upon its canon. The Roman Catholic church, though much flawed, did not cease to be Christ's church until they officially anathematized the gospel in the Canons of the Council of Trent (Galatians 1:6-9). The Pelagian Controversy was extremely important, and remains important to us today. There are all kinds of synergistic soteriolgy being taught from pulpits everywhere. In Him, Doc |