Showing posts with label Baptism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baptism. Show all posts

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Mohler doesn't get it Wright




I like Mohler. But it sounds more like Luther cannot be wrong on any front!!!
Luther is one of my heroes, but if Mohler would have hold to his view of Justification by faith, that alone (no pun intended) would not have been enough to spare him of Luther's wrath because Mohler stands for believer's baptism, as well as Mohler's view of the Lord's supper. Therefore, Luther would not care if he held to the Gospel, as we saw in Zwingli's case.
Tradition, and a bad one at that!!!!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

When Protestants thought it was ok to kill another Protestant because they didn't agree

Look at this picture. This is not some Roman Catholic killing a Protestant. This is a Protestant drowning another Protestant, specifically, an Anabaptist, because he believed that baptism was only reserved to adults, and therefore, opposed infant baptism.

If they, the Magisterial Protestants (mainly Lutherans, Reformed) thought that by killing the Anabaptists they were doing away with "error", they were so wrong. 

In their martyrdom, the Anabaptists showed the Magisterial Reformers that they DID have the valour to follow their convictions to the end, even when those who were supposed to be on their side, set themselves against them.

Friday, October 7, 2011

The ‘Sacraments’ Do Not Confer Grace

As the Consensus Tigurinus rightly declares-
Article 17. The Sacraments Do Not Confer Grace.By this doctrine is overthrown that fiction of the sophists which teaches that the sacraments confer grace on all who do not interpose the obstacle of mortal sin. For besides that in the sacraments nothing is received except by faith, we must also hold that the grace of God is by no means so annexed to them that whoso receives the sign also gains possession of the thing. For the signs are administered alike to reprobate and elect, but the reality reaches the latter only.
 I am not happy at all with the Catholic position on the sacraments, which I see it more like a blasphemy. Many weren't happy with the Lutheran position either. So the Reformed/Calvinistic position served as a via media for the rest of us.

Not all things that Calvin said were wrong. That's why we can't close our minds to either Luther or Calvin, or the Anabaptists for that matter.