Skyler
Puritan Board Graduate
In the section that you quote, the 2LBC is speaking of the proper administration of the sacraments. In other words, proper ordination and calling is required to administer the sacraments. Again, I ask to see where the Scriptures command an unbeliever to neglect the sacraments.
Yes, I misread it. Thanks for pointing that out.
Are you saying, though, that unbelievers should participate in the Lord's Supper? Or baptism?
I can almost see that in part from the position of the paedobaptists on the board, at least with regards to unbelieving infants. But even they, I think, wouldn't say that an unbeliever of unbelieving parents should be baptized. Or would they? I'm not too familiar with their arguments, but I've never heard that argued.
Secondly, the Scriptures are firm that "anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself." Is it possible for an unbeliever to fulfill this requirement?
I've pointed out that the right worship of God is a moral commandment of God. Thus, the sacraments cannot be used as an example of the category that you are attempting to describe.
Would you say, then, that baptism is a moral commandment of God?
Are you really arguing that a command to refrain from military service could not be a moral law of God?
I don't see how it possibly could be. Under the Old Covenant, God frequently commanded military service. If this were a moral command, then a command to refrain from military service in the New Covenant would be a contradiction with another moral command--something which cannot exist.
Therefore, it must belong in the category of non-universal commands like the ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant.
Please, remember I'm not saying it actually does exist. I'm hypothesizing that if it does exist, this would need to be the case.