|
|
USER COMMENTS BY “ MR. J ” |
|
|
| Page 1 | Page 2 · Found: 189 user comments posted recently. |
|  | |  |
|
|
 3/6/08 5:44 PM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | |  |  |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
Icon O'Clast wrote:
I just listened to a sermon called "Circumcision the Forerunner of Baptism" by Prof Dr Henry Krabbendam. I challenge you to listen to that sermon with a dry eye and remain unconvinced of the fact that Baptism is the sign and seal of the New Covenant as Circumcision was of the Old. Have a listen - really listen! I implore you. I listen to all Krabbendam's stuff. He is a preacher without peer when it comes to expounding and explaining the Scriptures. I heard him lecture when I was a theology student and still listen to those lecture tapes. This sermon on Baptism gives insights and angles on the Sacraments that make you sit up and take notice. |
|
|
| 3/6/08 2:54 AM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
JD wrote:
Which of you will present a single verse where a man of the OT is called a son of God? Where will you point me to prove the OT believers were born of the Spirit? Lk 3:38 calls Adam the son of God. In Genesis Adam's descendants are called sons of God. Also can not be a believer without the Spirit of God. OT believers were born in sin and could not be believers unless they were regenerated. Many believed they were saved just because they were Jews, just like many today think they are saved because of their church affiliation. That is why Jesus had to sort out Nicodemus. But if regeneration was unknown in the OT Christ's response to Nicodemus' question would have been different. To say that OT believers were not regenerated, justified and sanctified same as NT believers is to nullify Scripture. |
|
|
| 3/5/08 9:31 PM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
Discerning Believer wrote:
Mr. J. He said it, I didn't. His smug remarks about JD holding to the KJV 1611 while he held to the writers of theReformed Confessions. Personally, I lean to the LBCF, but my positions stated here are backed up from scripture, not theologians.
At least you have provided many good arguments and willing to back them up with scripture. I have a lot more respect for someone like you than many of the others who don't know why they believe what they believe. DB, thanks for your post and for clarifying your position. I retract my words about your attack on Minnow. Although I am sure the man believes the Scriptures with all his heart and only sees in the Reformed theologians what he believes the Bible teaches.
I have yet to see JD give anything unrefutable, especially re immersion. His proposition regarding Hebrews being in an interim or probationary period is ludicrous. The Bible nowhere talks about an interim period. It does however clearly align baptism with purification as to the mode, and to circumcision as to the meaning. I understand and empathise with Baptist theology, being an exbaptist. But I despise the lies of Arminian Dispensationalism. Nothing has done so much to undermine the integrity of Scripture. |
|
|
| 3/5/08 6:31 PM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
KK wrote:
βάπτω - baptō - A primary verb; TO WHELM, that is,
*** COVER WHOLLY *** with a fluid; Good enough ???
Veritas Vincit !!!
With Love "IN" Christ, KK Only good enough if you are a baptist and only read baptist literature. Strong wrote a great concordance, but did not escape his baptist bias. As stated before, independent linguistic analasys has proven that the word has many meanings and immerse is only one and not even one of the more common ones.
DB - your attack on Minnow is low - especially where you accuse him of placing theologians above Scripture.
JD - you have once again proven how ridiculous, unScriptural and insulting to God Dispensationalism is. The Jeremiah promise is for the church, not just for the Israelites. The whole OT is a verification of what the OT promised, starting with songs of Zecheriah and Maria and ending with Rev which is full of OT typology. All OT is for the church (Lk16:31; 24:27; II Tim 3:15,16). All NT theological arguments are substantianted and supported by OT Scripture. Paul ties himself into knots to prove that the church and Israel are one entity. Minnow gets accused of putting Theologians before Scripture. You put Scofield before Scripture, and he wasn't even |
|
|
| 3/4/08 6:48 PM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
Bernard wrote:
Sounds like a pseudonym. Google it, and you'll see many people have used it. You could be right. And I have been calling him 'Icon' as if that is his Christian name and O'Clast his surname. An iconoclast, according to the Oxoford, is a person who attacks cherished beliefs. Well, it fits him. Wonder what he has to say about it. |
|
|
| 3/4/08 12:39 AM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
Michael Hranek wrote:
Mr. J
And seeing the future God knew before hand of the inexcusable evil Esau would do.
And hopefully humbling for us is that God seeing the future could see that it is only through His Son Jesus Christ that we can live holy and pleasing to Him and may His grace to us in Christ overwhelm us with gratitude that we may serve Him with joy for the abundance of all things. Sorry mate, but you are way out wrong there. God is not someone who looks into the future or predicts the future. He has determined the future. The future is not some chance occurance and God is not a soothsayer or fortune teller. The Bible says that He has DECLARED the end from the beginning. Esau was a vessel fitted for destruction. God is the one who makes the vessels. They are not identical vessels whose future God can predict. God said of Pharaoh, that He had raised him up specifically for His purpose. God decrees, He determines, He does not predict. It is because He has determined the future that He can tell us that ALL things work together for good to those who love Him, to those who are the called according to His purpose. If He did not control all things He could not make that promise and we would have no assurance. |
|
|
| 3/4/08 12:34 AM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
Michael Hranek wrote:
Mr. J
Speaking of baptism immersion versus sprinkling it is interesting to use those words in place of the word Baptism in the NT. Baptized into Christ for instance holds much clearer meaning of being immersed actually put into Christ and Jesus Himself speaks of believers being in Him whereas sprinkled into Christ doesn't make sense. It is the operation of the Holy Spirit which is pictured in Baptism. It is through regeneration that you become part of the body of Christ, part of all He accomplished. This is through the operation of the Spirit, this is the true baptism. It is not a picture of what Christ did, we have that picture in Communion. Baptism with water is a picture of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You are not placed into the Spirit, you are not immersed into the Spirit, the Spirit comes upon you like pouring water. |
|
|
| 3/4/08 12:31 AM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
israeltheou wrote:
It is through the Resurrection that Jesus was transformed again to spirit, whereupon he received from the Father the attributes he previously laid aside; consider John 12:16 & 23, John 17:5, Acts 2:32-33, Acts 3:11, Acts 5:30-31, Philippians 2:9. You can't be serious? You are saying that Jesus did not literally and physically rise from the dead? Please be more specific, for I smell a heresy. |
|
|
| 3/3/08 6:09 PM |
| Mr. J | | Australia | | | |
|
• Add new comment
• Reply to comment
• Report abuse
|
israeltheou wrote:
(1) The term "name" connotes the entirety of the person, including his character and attributes. Thus, Abraham, whom the Lord calls his friend, knew perfectly well the name of the Lord. Contrary to the misinformed assertions of the "Yahweh", etc. crowd, there is nothing mystical in the spelling or pronunciation of the "name" of God.
(2) I trust that you realize that all this is POSITIONAL -- that is, certain by virtue of decree or promise -- but that at the present date, Christ Jesus alone has been raised from the dead and has ascended into Heaven. Even David still is in the grave, Acts 2:29. Firstly - I was referring to the Name of Jesus, not the Name of God (John8:56). Secondly - David's body may still be in the grave, but his soul is in heaven. As the Psalmist said, "You will guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." We will none of us be resurrected as Christ was, till the second resurrection; the first being our regeneration when we were raised from spiritual death. But in a sense we are now already in Christ, in heaven (Eph 2:1-10; Col 3:1-4) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3/7/08 1:32 AM
