Blessed Lord's Day, brothers. I have read John Calvin's Institutes on the sacraments, prompting me to more questions of clarification.
1. Dr. Calvin defines a sacrament as:
and further, he says on the sacramental status of the laying on of hands:
So, is the laying on of hands a sort-of...
Is this a sacrament / sacrament-like rite? The parallels I have noticed are:
- It offers grace (everyone who is bitten shall live)
- That grace is acquired through faith (when he looks at it)
- It is graciously given from God to his people (Then the Lord said to Moses)
The main diffrence I...
Dr. R. Scott Clark writes in the comments of this 2022 Heidelblog article:
This is actually a thought I myself had a few times.
The practicalities of dissmising the children aside, what do you all think of the idea? Do any Reformed or other Protestant churches practice such a thing?
I have started reading around a little on the Lord's Supper, and it seems I might have been "Zwinglian by default", but I am still a little confused...
Here are some questions:
1. What is the main difference between Zwingli and Calvin on this issue? What are the main biblical arguments for each...
As my family is working through Exodus, we hit the initiation of The Passover Feast in Exodus 12. In explaining and discussing with my family, I also brought up discussion of the Lord’s Supper. As a family, we are also reading through Van Dixhoorn’s Confessing the Faith, which brought us to the...