Monthly Archives: July 2010

Only disciples are saved. Jesus established baptism as the ordinary means by which one officially becomes a disciple of Jesus. There is ordinarily no salvation outside the visible church. Baptism is the solemn admission of the party baptized into the … Continue reading →

But our know-it-alls, the new spirit people, claim that faith alone saves and that human works and outward forms contribute nothing to this. We answer: It is of course true that nothing in us does it except faith, as we … Continue reading →

13 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said … Continue reading →

The principles of Church communion are so clearly laid down in Scripture, and so distinctly stated in our Standards, that whenever we see such inquiries as above presented, we take it for granted that they come from Congregationalists, who think, … Continue reading →

ALTHOUGH many baptistic theologians drink deeply from the well of Calvin’s theology, his doctrine of infant baptism is deemed to be at best unpalatable, at worst poisonous. It is considered one of the unfortunate carryovers of Romish doctrine in the … Continue reading →