The Pelagian Captivity of the Church

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals ^ | R. C. Sproul

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I think that attending that first baby-splashing event could endanger your official status.

By rights, it probably should. (grin) And actually, I'm pretty sure that registering Membership at any other local church (Baptist, Presby, whatever) generally terminates one's Membership and Lay Obligations to the former congregation; so, in any event, according to Canon Law I'm no longer a Baptist.

However, TRBC is not exactly famous for policing their membership Rolls all that rigorously... so I may still yet be (on paper) one of Jerry's Kids, for all I know.

[George W. Bush]

As long as our local IF Baptists don't report you to Independent Fundamental Baptist Central Headquarters and Control Center, your secret is safe with me.

Actually, even if it was reported to HQ, they wouldn't have much cause to expel you as a heretic. You were baptized as a believer and have not baptized any infant children. Yet.

Heh-heh.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Look what kind of people you have alined yourself with ksen, take a good long look.

BigMack

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Look what kind of people you have alined yourself with ksen, take a good long look. BigMack

Huh?

Is there something offensive about GWB's #382?

If so, I seem to have missed it...

[drstevej]

***Look what kind of people you have alined yourself with ksen, take a good long look.***

David, Paul, Jesus (GRPL Forefathers)

[George W. Bush]

Your doctrinal beliefs are not nearly as unsettling as your complete lack of humor. Are you quite certain you're a Baptist?

It's somewhat painful to actually explain that... Oh, never mind.

Our local General Baptists are a lot more fun. And their church is growing pretty fast. And they've even had a Calvinist pianist in to pinch-hit. Horror of all horrors, they're hinting they want that awful Calvinistic person as their regular pianist.

You see, it's Calvinism sneaking in via the classic piano trojan horse. A dire threat to Baptist orthodoxy, merely another ruse described by John Calvin in his diabolical masterpiece, The Suborning Of Anabaptist Strongholds By Pianistic Artifice. Required reading at Calvinist seminaries.

But then, our local General Baptists are more interested (and successful) in proclaiming the Gospel than imposing very artificial theological litmus tests which are, to true evangelists, of largely trifling influence within the context of an evangelical Baptist outreach.

I think you must have a very strange and distorted notion of how Calvinists actually preach and make the free offer of the promises of scripture. Calvinists are, in fact, no different in this than was Spurgeon.

I think you fail to grasp that we Calvinists don't know who the Elect actually are. If you think hard about that, you'll see Calvinism much more clearly, not the ridiculous caricature of hyper-Calvinism which is the usual fare peddled by the Arminians and their unwitting allies on these threads.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

A dire threat to Baptist orthodoxy, merely another ruse described by John Calvin in his diabolical masterpiece, The Suborning Of Anabaptist Strongholds By Pianistic Artifice.

LOL!!

A much more successful volume than John Knox's little-known and best-forgotten pamphlet, On The Culinary Enticement Of The Anabaptists To Alliance With Our Noble Cause: The Free Offer Of Haggis.

[George W. Bush]

A much more successful volume than John Knox's little-known and best-forgotten pamphlet, On The Culinary Enticement Of The Anabaptists To Alliance With Our Noble Cause: The Free Offer Of Haggis.

They dinna ca' resist th' haggis!

[catholic]

You sound like you need to buy a Catechism of theCatholic Church. I was an Evangelical for many years and just as you sited in your article,the concept of Origiinal Sin puts a new light on all of salvation

[catholic]

You sound like you need to buy a Catechism of theCatholic Church. I was an Evangelical for many years and just as you sited in your article,the concept of Origiinal Sin puts a new light on all of salvation

[harbingr]

'...the concept of Origiinal Sin puts a new light on all of salvation'

Here's a Theory...