MarieP
Puritan Board Senior
He crossed the Thames!!!!!!!!!!
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I have joined the Dark Side....
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I am curious. Were you Reformed before? Obviously as a new Presbyterian you will be supporting covenant (infant) baptism. Was it the presbyterian polity that won you over?
Did you ever consider that you could endorse completely Reformed theology without accepting presbyterian polity? Was historical Congregationalism an option, i.e. the heritage of John Owens and Jonathan Edwards?
Did you ever consider that you could endorse completely Reformed theology without accepting presbyterian polity? Was historical Congregationalism an option, i.e. the heritage of John Owens and Jonathan Edwards?
Notthemama1984
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Sometimes hope is very blind indeed. Methinks I will just let this one sleep.
Southern Presbyterian
Puritan Board Doctor
I don't know Randy. Wait until you meet the new committee that we've enlisted to "encourage" full subscription to the Westminster Standards. 
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I don't know Randy. Wait until you meet the new committee that we've enlisted to "encourage" full subscription to the Westminster Standards.
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Now THAT'S funny!
I would question how one could be a Presbyterian and yet reject covenant (infant) baptism. I know that in the PCA a person could join the local church and yet be a credo-baptist. In that case, I would say that the individual is essentially a reformed baptist willing to accept presbyterian polity. A credo-baptist Presbyterian is historically oxymoronic.
Marrow Man
Drunk with Powder
I don't know Randy. Wait until you meet the new committee that we've enlisted to "encourage" full subscription to the Westminster Standards.
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This is why, practically speaking, Presbyterians must go with the lower quantity of water. The Daliks can handle sprinkling, but full immersion would destroy their circuitry.
Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
Welcome to Presbyterianism T.A.G.! I made a similar crossing a decade ago! I would only warn those that say "I will never, never, never make that crossing" to beware! A reformed Baptist elder and I were sitting together and extolling one another that we would never cross over and a short 6 months later I found myself taken! My wife continually points that out to me!
"Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
I am a member in good standing in my Church. I have been told I am more Reformed soteriologically than more recent theological trends in Presbyterianism. The only thing I take exception to in the Standards is infant baptism. I do not cause disunity in my Church as the WCF is the standard I am to uphold. My children are all confessionally baptized based upon their own cognizant profession of faith. If I am asked about baptism I refer congregates to the Elders. I do know of one other gentleman who is like me in my Church. He has been a member in good standing for some time also. I do not believe that Covenant Theology stands or falls on infant baptism. It doesn't. I actually believe I hold stronger to most of the principles of the Confession than a lot of Presbyterians do. But I could be mistaken. You can say I am an oxymoron or an anomaly. There are Presbyterians who do not make infant baptism an issue. Are you willing to claim that an whole denomination is not Presbyterian because they hold to this position?
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Notthemama1984
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Not to brag or anything
Nope, It isn't about bragging. And it is just an opinion. After all we do live in America.
Notthemama1984
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
The Pharisees had a similar opinion.
Boliver, you left off part of my quote saying, "I could be mistaken." I don't appreciate being partially quoted.
Notthemama1984
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I fixed the quote. Your disclaimer at the end does not change the fact that this statement comes off extremely egotistical.
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Apparently we can't have a nice baptism thread yet. You jinxed us with your meta comment Randy!
Boliver, if Randy's statement sounds egotistical, how do you think your Pharisee remark sounds?
After that thought experiment, try this one. How many members of Presbyterian churches know what an exception to the Confession is? How many know where they would take one? How many would understand all the points where their current thinking would require them to take exception to the Confession? Randy knows and loves the Westminster Standards; that is not boasting, that is a plain statement of fact.[/Moderator]
Apparently we can't have a nice baptism thread yet. You jinxed us with your meta comment Randy!
Boliver, if Randy's statement sounds egotistical, how do you think your Pharisee remark sounds?
After that thought experiment, try this one. How many members of Presbyterian churches know what an exception to the Confession is? How many know where they would take one? How many would understand all the points where their current thinking would require them to take exception to the Confession? Randy knows and loves the Westminster Standards; that is not boasting, that is a plain statement of fact.[/Moderator]
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