Mason S. Craig
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Reformed (URCNA) | Trader @inspireadvisor | I post theology, quotes, and memes. Sometimes fitness, productivity, and culture.
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Based R.C. on predestination:
"The biblical doctrine of election teaches that some people receive grace, the rest receive justice. No one ever receives injustice from God."
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RC Sproul on the importance of bread and wine in the Lord's Supper:
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John Calvin on Infant Baptism:
Objection: infants are capable neither of repentance nor of faith
But, to insist still more stoutly upon this point, they add that baptism is a sacrament of repentance and of faith. Accordingly, since neither of these can come about in tender
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B. B. Warfield on Infant Baptism
The baptism of infants, no doubt, presupposes that salvation is altogether of the Lord. No infant can be the Lord's unless it is the Lord who makes him such. If salvation waits on anything we can do, no infant can be saved; for there is nothing
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A Common Objection to Infant Baptism
Objection: Paedobaptists don't have a single proof-text that shows an example or command to baptize infants.
While I agree that the paedobaptist position doesn't have a proof-text, I would argue that proof-texting is actually not a reliable
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Based R. C. on God's Sovereignty:
"If there is one maverick molecule running loose in this cosmos … you have no reason as a Christian to believe a single promise of the future that God has made."
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As I've studied baptism for the past two years, it has become more apparent to me that one's view of baptism is a byproduct of one's entire biblical framework.
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** BOOK GIVEAWAY **
John Owen, Overcoming Sin & Temptation
How To Enter:
- Follow
- Like
- Comment your favorite theology book
The winner will be drawn on Monday, May 20th
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My plan is to give away all these books to my followers. Be on the lookout in the coming weeks and months!
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“In order for doctrine to be fruitful to us, it must overflow into our hearts, spread into our daily routines, and truly transform us within.”
- John Calvin
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Since studying the Reformed Tradition in greater detail, I'm slightly annoyed by how the "main" proponents of reformed theology are people like White, Piper, and MacArthur. These guys are good contemporary teachers but aren't good representatives of reformed theology.
If you
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My Top 10 Most Unpopular Ecclesiastical Takes:
1. All ministers should be formally trained in theology and proficient in the biblical languages
2. The office of deacon is a male-only office
3. Women should cover their heads during public worship
4. Kid's ministry during
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Herman Bavinck on Infant Baptism
(Hopefully this addresses the objections that there needs to be an explicit example)
"First of all, we need to overcome our astonishment over the fact that the New Testament nowhere explicitly mentions infant baptism. This fact can be explained
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“Days of trouble must be days of prayer.”
– Matthew Henry
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My next book giveaway will be this theology proper bundle 👀
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"Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing, and living out of the gospel in our souls."
- John Owen
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Who are your top 5 *20th-century* theologians?
Here's mine (no order):
- J. I. Packer
- R. C. Sproul
- Herman Bavinck
- Geerhardus Vos
- Cornelius Van Til
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Francis Turretin on Infant Baptism:
“Now if it was right for infants to be brought to Christ, why not also to be received to baptism, the symbol of our communion with Christ? Why should the church not receive into her bosom those whom Christ received into his? How unjust we
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Heinrich Bullinger On The Lord's Supper
"As bread nourishes and strengthens man, and gives him ability to labor; so the body of Christ, eaten by faith, feeds and satisfies the soul of man, and furnishes the whole man to all duties of godliness.
As wine is drink to the thirsty,
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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
– John Calvin
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My Journey From Credo To Paedo:
Over the past couple of years, I’ve slowly become more aware and aligned with the Reformed tradition flowing from the theology of John Calvin and the Westminster Divines. When I first became a Christian in 2019 (21 yrs. old), I considered myself a
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“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”
– Jonathan Edwards
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@john_sagat
Baptism is primarily about what God does for us rather than what we do for Him. If you do not grasp this concept, you will never understand or agree with infant baptism.
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Who are your top 5 *living* theologians?
Here's mine (no order):
- Carl Trueman
- Joel Beeke
- Sinclair Ferguson
- John Frame
- Cornelius Venema
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For those who are interested:
My Journey From Credo To Paedo:
Over the past couple of years, I’ve slowly become more aware and aligned with the Reformed tradition flowing from the theology of John Calvin and the Westminster Divines. When I first became a Christian in 2019 (21 yrs. old), I considered myself a
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God has preordained every detail that comes to pass, from the roll of a dice to the salvation of souls. Yet, humans are free from coercion and are responsible for their actions.
Why is this paradox so problematic for Non-Reformed Christians? Christianity is full of paradoxes.
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** BOOK GIVEAWAY **
Sovereignty Bundle Includes:
1. A. W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God
2. Boice & Ryken, The Doctrines of Grace
3. Sam Storms, Chosen for Life
How To Enter:
- Follow
- Like
- Comment your favorite Christian quote!
The winner will be drawn on Monday, June
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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
– John Calvin
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This clear and concise booklet from
@DanielRHyde
may be the best resource I’ve found on covenant baptism. It’s theologically dense yet accessible and short. This will be my go-to book recommendation for those pouring into the study of baptism.
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A Case For Optimistic Amillennialism
Introduction
This post presents a case for optimistic amillennialism, which is somewhat of an eclectic position drawing upon both classic amillennialism and postmillennialism. This post doesn’t convey a complete eschatology, but highlights
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If
OT Israel = God’s house
and
NT Church = God’s house
Then
OT Israel = NT Church
Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we
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If you have received baptism from a true Christian church, it's valid whether you feel like it or not.
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Got the job!
Waiting to hear if I got a job I’ve been interviewing for for 3 weeks. Your prayers would be appreciated!
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@The_Jaded_Geek
If circumcision of the heart is the New Covenant sign, that is problematic for two reasons:
1. A sign is a physical, tangible thing that signifies something.
2. If circumcision of the heart is reserved for the New Covenant, then you have to conclude no one in the OT was
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Happy Friday! You were predestined to make it through the work week.
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"Christ did not die for any upon condition,
if they do believe;
but He died for all God’s elect,
that they should believe."
– John Owen
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“As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean … so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet.”
– John Flavel
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BREAKING: Arminius Was A Calvinist
"After the reading of Scripture, which I strenuously teach, and more than any other … I recommend that the commentaries of Calvin be read.… For I affirm that in the interpretation of the Scriptures Calvin is incomparable, and that his
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I see no biblical basis for Kids Ministry on a Sunday morning. It is an unnecessary division of the body primarily fueled by pragmatism.
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“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”
– Thomas Watson
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J. I. Packer on God's Providence
"To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints."
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Happy Lord's Day!
Go to church.
Worship God.
Spend time with your family.
Rest from worldly recreation.
Trust in the gospel.
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My journey out of Baptist ecclesiology:
I read the Bible.
My journey to Baptist ecclesiology:
I read the Bible.
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You know it a good clip when you get totally reliable individuals nonstop commenting about how wrong your theology is!
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John Calvin on Covenantal Continuity
"The covenant made with all the patriarchs is so much like ours in substance and reality that the two are actually one and the same. Yet they differ in the mode of dispensation."
– Institutes 2.10.2
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Them: “something cannot be 1 and 3 at the same time.”
Christian bros:
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The Belgic Confession on Baptism
Holy Baptism We believe and confess that Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law, has made an end, by the shedding of His blood, of all other sheddings of blood which men could or would make as a propitiation or satisfaction for sin; and that He,
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Nondenominational churches are like the Wild West.
Anything goes, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Everyone does what is right in their own eyes.
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Like if you’re looking forward to public worship tomorrow!
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Underrated Accounts You Need To Follow:
@neulsaem
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@xtianherring
@ChristoPhil_
@BringePeter
@JLuttje
@Josiah_B_Bates
@JoeGibbons84
@TheCountryCov
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What are your top 3 Modern Must-Reads?
Here's mine:
1. Knowing God, Packer
2. Delighting in the Trinity, Reeves
3. The Cross of Christ, Stott
I'm restocking this category in my church's bookstall and want to know!
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Augustine on Total Depravity:
"But this part of the human race to which God has promised pardon and a share in His eternal kingdom, can they be restored through the merit of their own works? God forbid.
For what good work can a lost man perform, except so far as he has been
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The new church I've been attending has a great gathering place:
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Before the foundations of the world, God predestined you either for salvation or condemnation.
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Reformed View Of Christ's Presence In The Lord's Supper
"While remaining bread and wine, these sacred elements nevertheless become so united to the reality they signify that we do not doubt, but joyfully believe, that we receive in this meal by the Spirit through faith nothing
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Just finished
@pj_schreiner
's book on the Kingdom of God for a ThM class at Western Seminary! Really awesome biblical-theological study of the King’s power over the King’s people in the King’s place.
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Should You Consider Seminary?
Here are some important factors that should be considered for those pursuing the ministry:
1. Your Calling
If God hasn’t called you to the ministry (in the Church or theological education), then seminary likely isn’t for you. This calling
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@CovenantReform2
Actually, "for" is not in the text. What you have is an action/manner relationship. Make disciples (action) by baptizing and teaching them (manner).
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@Andrewnsnyder
1812 Bible with Commentary from Thomas Scott. Got it for free at a seminary book giveaway!
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Calvin
Athanasius
à Brakel
Bavinck
Sproul
Who would you pick?
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Honorable mentions:
- B. B. Warfield
- J. Gresham Machen
- Louis Berkhof
- B. B. Warfield
- G. C. Berkouwer
- Loraine Boettner
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John Flavel (paedobaptist) on the major difference between his and Philip Cary's (credobaptist) view of the Mosaic Covenant:
"But the question is, Whether the Sinai Law does in its own nature, and according to God's purpose and design in the promulgation of it, revive the Law of
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Bullinger On Why Sacraments Are Visible Signs
"The truest and most proper cause why sacraments are instituted under visible signs seems partly to be God’s goodness, and partly also man’s weakness. For very hardly do we reach unto the knowledge of heavenly things if, without
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@eXcalvinist
I believe the claim is that he did not stay on topic, which would be a markdown in a formal debate.
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“It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the
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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
– John Calvin
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Happy Friday! You were predestined to make it through the work week. Just a few more hours!
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@jacob_allee
1st commandment. Inner feelings, self autonomy, and sexual desire are their gods.
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“The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
– Lamentations 3:22-23
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You know you've made it as a Calvinist when THE Leighton Flowers interacts with your content.
We agree, believers receive grace while unbelievers receive justice. What makes the Calvinistic view of election unjust is the concept that God is ultimately the one who controls everyone’s decisions regarding what they do with the revelation of God.
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An infant who’s brought to church each week is more of a disciple than a “professing” adult who doesn’t attend church.
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Congrats to
@sfanning16
for winning the book giveaway!
** BOOK GIVEAWAY **
John Owen, Overcoming Sin & Temptation
How To Enter:
- Follow
- Like
- Comment your favorite theology book
The winner will be drawn on Monday, May 20th
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John Owen on Killing Sin:
"The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin…
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it
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To clarify: Each book or bundle will have it's own giveaway that you can enter.
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As I’ve studied the Scriptures and grappled with baptism, I’ve come to believe that the biblical argument for immersion-only baptism is weak. In this post, I will analyze and refute the following arguments for immersion-only baptism:
1. βαπτίζω means immersion
2. Baptisms were
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Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς
ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου·
ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου·
γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου,
ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·
τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον·
καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν, ὡς
καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν
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@JordanMHatfield
@The_Idol_Killer
@Soteriology101
I've never seen such a terrible strawman used for clickbait in my life. If you're going to engage with Calvinism, don't do it in such a ridiculous manner.
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@aspin3
Hey buddy, why don’t you focus on being encouraging and open to reason instead of being so matter-of-fact about such a complex doctrine?
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@becomelutheran
Vos on Lutherans v. Reformed:
“The Lutherans as well as the Reformed cast themselves on the Scriptures. Even though we now fully recognize that the latter better than the former succeeded in mastering the rich content of Scripture, this fact in turn also calls for an
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