Big things are happening. We have changed the conversation and have forced the PCUSA liberals to acknowledge us and try to deal with us. The fact that we aren’t leaving the church has left them confused, and nervous.
We were the only organization to bring families and youth.
The Bible says "baptism now saves you." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible says that baptism makes us dead to sin and alive to Christ. And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible refers to salvation coming through "the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this watery language does not refer to the watery-thing Jesus instituted in Matthew 28 and said that all Christians were to receive.
The Bible speaks of being born again of "water and the Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this refers not to baptism, where the Holy Spirit works in the water, but to the water of amniotic fluid (that is, the natural birth) and then another birth, the non-watery rebirth of regeneration through faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible speaks quite clearly of infant faith. And sure, you can argue that these passages don't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible thematically links baptism with circumcision, which was performed on Israelite boys when they were 8 days old. And sure, you can argue that this link doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible says that baptism "is for you and your children." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible says to make disciples through teaching and baptizing "all nations." Children were inarguably included in the Jewish understanding of "nations." And sure, you can argue that a different definition of "nations" is being used when speaking of baptism.
The Bible describes entire households being baptized. "Households" is a term that inarguably included children if they were present. And sure, you can argue that all of the households described as being baptized did not include children and that there was no reason for Luke to note this if we were not supposed to think that we should baptize infants.
But the problem is that, to deny baptismal regeneration and to reject infant baptism, you have to argue ALL of these things. Each and every one of them.
So, what is more likely: that you are forcing false assumptions about baptism onto the Bible or that every single passage describing baptism and infant faith doesn't mean what it says? What's more likely: that you have a flawed hermeneutic or that passage after passage after passage about baptism and infant faith needs a ton of clarification in order to unlock its true meaning?
This is true. While PCUSA general assembly represents the most liberal 5% of the PCUSA, the youth advisory delegates are voting significantly less progressively than the older commissioners
“First of all, we must observe that Muslims are silly in ridiculing us for holding that Christ is the Son of the living God, as if God had a wife. For since they are carnal, they can only think of what is flesh and blood.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas
This is Protestantism.
As much as people will shriek and try to explain it away, the truth cannot be denied.
This is the rotten fruit of the Protestant revolution.
I find it very interesting that Charlie (moistcritical) lectured his audience at length that anyone not outraged and outspoken about the Epstein files is a fraud / part of the problem
Yet he still hasn’t made 1 video on the UK’s rape inquiry
Certainly it’s not because it’s divisive topic and Reddit hasn’t made up they’re mind about it yet so he doesn’t know what to say…
@ZachWLambert Total clown shut up. « If you want the round earth to be taught in public schools imagine how you’d feel if they taught the flat earth. One is true the other is false it’s not complex
Yesterday at a restaurant I met this Trad Latin Mass Catholic who had read the entire code of canon law in Latin and was familiar with all the councils but had no idea what 1 Timothy was about
The benefit is that people enjoy it. The even greater benefit is that groups of people enjoy it together. They shouldn’t overdo it, obviously, but enjoying something is actually a worthwhile benefit for human beings. We aren’t robots. Not every single thing we do needs to be “optimized.” At a certain point you have to enjoy your life or else what’s even the point of trying to extend it?