You guys basically told me it doesn’t work.
Why the SBC is no longer traditional Baptist
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by FreeBaptist, May 18, 2019.
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God has, in so many ways, given my family new lives and we are going to live it. To quote my wife recently as she joyfully runs throughout the house, “praise God from whom all blessings flow.” -
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1. A covenant is the formal cause of a church: so that without a covenant, expressed or implied, a visible church there cannot be. Nor is there any other way in which a number of persons who are not a church may become such, but by entering into covenant one with the other to the Lord. The first christian church was formed out of the house of Judah in Jerusalem; the next was out of the house of Israel in Samaria. And all the gentile churches were built on the same plan, 1 Thes. ii. 14. And the constitutive cause was a new covenant. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah:- I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people. Heb. viii. 8-12.
2. This covenant or confederation bears a four-fold aspect. First, it hath respect to the Lord Christ; and then the meaning is, “We do engage henceforth to be the Lords people,” which is fulfilling this branch of the new covenant in Heb. viii. 10. They shall be to me a people; and an assumption of this overture, on Gods part, “Be ye separate and I will receive you, and will be to you a God.” They gave their own selves to the Lord. 2 Cor. viii. 5. Know ye not that ye are not your own, but God’s? 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20. That with purpose of heart they would cleave to the Lord, Act. xi. 23. Come out from among them and be ye separate—and I will receive you and will be to you a God and ye shall be to me a people, 2 Cor. vi. 16, 17. Heb. viii. 8-12
3. Next, it has a mutual respect to all the particular persons concerned in it. And then the meaning is, “We agree to be a church, viz. to coalesce into one body and cleave together, so at to be no longer our own, but the property one of another, and subject one to another, in the Lord.” Receive ye one another, Rom. xv. 7. Yea all of you be subject one to another, 1 Pet. v. 5. Onesimus—who is one of you—Epaphras, who is one of you, Col. iv. 9, 12. We being many are one body and everyone members one of another, Rom. xii. 5. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular, 1 Cor. xii. 12, 27. The whole body fitly joined together and compacted, Col. ii. 19. Eph. ii. 20, 21.
4. It hath respect to all the commandments of Christ; and then the meaning is, “all that the Lord hath said that will we do and be obedient;” which is a closure with an overture. If ye do all things whatsoever I have commanded you lo I am with you always. Math. xxviii. 20.
5. It hath respect to the officers of the church; then the meaning is, “we will know, obey, and submit to them that have the rule over us, and speak to us the word of God,” Heb xiii 7, 17. They gave their own selves to us according to the will of God. 2 Cor. viii. 5.These people are as they that strive with the priest. Hos. iv. 4. -
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This not good. I tried to post on this a few years ago and no one knew what I writing about.
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I posted the clip of Prescott's statement in contrast to the much older statement of Morgan Edwards, long-time clerk of the Philadelphia Baptist Association. Edwards's statement shows, I believe, that individual accountability and accountability to other believers are not mutually exclusive, and that accountability to believers in church context is not some newfangled doctrine. -
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I really appreciate your straightening me out on this doctrine. -
So, although I am SB I do not contribute to the cooperative program. -
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