Almost three and a half years ago I waded into an issue in a blog for which in some circles I was scorched with disagreement and (by some people) with ridicule. I warned that respect for what is called widely “the Great Tradition” was beginning seriously to cause the boat of sola scriptura to list. Events since then have shown that my concerns should not have been dismissed as foolish and ridiculous.
Comparative religions studies thrive off observing similarities between ancient faiths and practices, proposing the root cause of one to the other. While there is a great deal of commonalities between the two law codes, the differences far outweigh their similarities.
There is no example of the baptism of a child in the New Testament.
In the Bible you are either a child who cannot speak for himself; or you are an adult who can.
Church, whatever we practice about this issue—even if we conclude that we should not baptize children—we must never allow our children to think that salvation is for when they are older.
Shockingly, a man in Minnesota who professed to be a Christian has been revealed as a murderer. Because he hated abortion, he murdered two pro-abortion lawmakers and tried to murder many more.
Death is still our hateful foe,
And its damage to our world we lament.
Yet Christ shall put an end to its woe,
When trumpet sounds and sky is rent.
Within the Reformed tradition, there have been two acceptable ways to hold to unconditional election. One is the supralapsarian view and the other is the infralapsarian view.
The right view of polygamy is that it violates God’s original design for marriage. Since it was a widespread cultural reality throughout the Ancient Near East, and since it had even infiltrated the Old Covenant people of God, it was regulated by OT law within the Israelite community but never officially endorsed or approved of.
For observing the Lord’s Day properly, people may look at you like you are an alien from another planet. But this is the very thing that identifies you as a follower of Jesus Christ!