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Originally posted by Bladestunner316
if RC baptism is valid then we would have to accept RC priests a ordained ministers. Likewise we would have to accept the Pope.
VI. There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God.
Originally posted by puritansailor
I still have yet to hear anyone answer Thornwell's excellent observation that Roman Catholic baptism is not practiced the way Protestants do it. This point is too often overlooked. I'm not refering to baptismal regeneration here. I'm talking about the elements used. They use water AND oil. Not just water. If the oil were just an accident, it wouldn't matter. But it is intentional. They don't have the necessary elements for correct for baptism. Any thoughts?
Originally posted by Bladestunner316
Joseph,
I didnt mean to offend you. I just dont see how we can accept one without the other. I will read your paper though.
I mean we wouldnt let an atheist perform a baptism or a woman minister baptize, so why should we accept rome?(proceeding to reading the paper).
blade
Originally posted by VirginiaHuguenot
Originally posted by puritansailor
I still have yet to hear anyone answer Thornwell's excellent observation that Roman Catholic baptism is not practiced the way Protestants do it. This point is too often overlooked. I'm not refering to baptismal regeneration here. I'm talking about the elements used. They use water AND oil. Not just water. If the oil were just an accident, it wouldn't matter. But it is intentional. They don't have the necessary elements for correct for baptism. Any thoughts?
My understanding is that, technically, the administration of chrism (oil) is associated with the "sacrament" of confirmation not baptism (which applied with water alone, albeit it is supposed to be "holy" water), although as a practical matter it takes place immediately after the baptism because it "must" be done while the recipient is "in a state of grace." Therefore, I think it is technically inaccurate to say that oil is part of the baptism, although I fully agree that it (chrism) is an unBiblical rite and as a matter of course it is given right after the baptism.
V. The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.
IV. There be only two sacraments ordained by Christ our Lord in the Gospel; that is to say, baptism, and the Supper of the Lord: neither of which may be dispensed by any, but by a minister of the Word lawfully ordained.
I. Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church; but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life. Which sacrament is, by Christ´s own appointment, to be continued in his church until the end of the world.
Originally posted by BrianLanier
It seems to me as if the the issue is whether or not the Roman Catholic church is still part of the visible church (subject to both mixture and error) or not (so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ).
If they are still part of the visible church then there ministers are lawfully called and their baptisms' valid. If they have so degenerated, then their baptisms' are not those that are done in the Church of Christ and you might as well accept those done in any other religous setting (mormon, etc.). It doesn't see like you can have it both ways:
What am I missing?
Originally posted by Puritanhead
boring...
Originally posted by biblelighthouse
Originally posted by BrianLanier
It seems to me as if the the issue is whether or not the Roman Catholic church is still part of the visible church (subject to both mixture and error) or not (so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ).
If they are still part of the visible church then there ministers are lawfully called and their baptisms' valid. If they have so degenerated, then their baptisms' are not those that are done in the Church of Christ and you might as well accept those done in any other religous setting (mormon, etc.). It doesn't see like you can have it both ways:
What am I missing?
You are missing this:
The Reformed Churches and Roman Catholic Baptism
Please take the time to read it.
The Reformers and Puritans rejected Rome, and simultaneously, they unanimously accepted Rome's baptism. Please don't say it's contradictory until you have read their arguments in the link I just gave you.
all kinds of superstitions and idolatries are in full vogue. We hold thus
that all those who meddle with such actions, and communicate with
them, do separate and cut themselves off from the body of Christ
Jesus. Yet nevertheless, because there is yet some small trace of a
Church in the papacy, and that baptism as it is in the substance, hath
been still continued, and because the efficacy of baptism doth not
depend upon him who doth administer it, we confess that they which
are thus baptized do not need a second baptism. In the meanwhile,
because of those corruptions which are mingled with the administration
of that sacrament, no man can present his children to be baptized in
that Church without polluting his conscience.
Moreover, if we have rightly determined that a sacrament is not to be estimated by the hand of him by whom it is administered, but is to be
received as from the hand of God himself, from whom it undoubtedly
proceeded, we may hence infer that its dignity neither gains nor loses by
the administrator. And, just as among men, when a letter has been
sent, if the hand and seal is recognized, it is not of the least
consequence who or what the messenger was; so it ought to be
sufficient for us to recognize the hand and seal of our Lord in his
sacraments, let the administrator be who he may. This confutes the
error of the Donatists, who measured the efficacy and worth of the
sacrament by the dignity of the minister. Such in the present day are
our Catabaptists, who deny that we are duly baptized, because we were
baptized in the Papacy by wicked men and idolaters; hence they
furiously insist on anabaptism. Against these absurdities we shall be
sufficiently fortified if we reflect that by baptism we were initiated not
into the name of any man, but into the name of the Father, and the
Son, and the Holy Spirit; and, therefore, that baptism is not of man, but
of God, by whomsoever it may have been administered. Be it that
those who baptized us were most ignorant of God and all piety, or were
despisers, still they did not baptize us into a fellowship with their
ignorance or sacrilege, but into the faith of Jesus Christ, because the
name which they invoked was not their own but God´s, nor did they
baptize into any other name.