Bible Surgery: Versectomies and Historectomies!
Find out how the reformers used "versectomies" to support their new doctrines.
See how Protestant refomers took verses out of historical Christian context to support their new found doctrines, also know as "historectomies."
Check out Renee Linn's very insightful post here.
See how Protestant refomers took verses out of historical Christian context to support their new found doctrines, also know as "historectomies."
Check out Renee Linn's very insightful post here.
posted by Russ Rentler, M.D. | 8:24 PM
2 Comments:
This is good stuff, Russ. It is impossible on any rational reading of the Bible to believe that baptism is optional. Furthemore, because its efficacy toward salvation is denied by so many Protestants, thus leaving it to be an encouraged but optional act, it is frequently repeated. It is a public declaration that one has chosen to follow Jesus. When, after a time of backsliding or after coming to a deeper awareness of what it really means to follow Jesus, a person will be baptized again, and for the same reason, to show the world that he or she is REALLY committed this time. There is nothing efficacious in the act of baptism. It is purely symbolic. Then again, so is the partaking of the Lord's Supper.
yes, Magister. It's inteesting that the reformers ended up spiritualizing the sacraments, but it was expedient for them to deny the efficacy of the sacraments because they were tied directly to a priesthood which was tied and dependent directly to a Church. No priests, no sacraments, no Catholic Church.j
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