The Magisterial Protestant

Picture this: 2 Pastors, one Presbyterian (Paedobaptist), the other Baptist (Credobaptist) are sent on a mission to different parts of an island where no one has heard of Christianity. They preach the Gospel and people are converted, the Baptist only baptizes those who make a credible profession of faith. While the Presbyterian baptizes only those who make a credible profession of faith as well. We see that that the first generation of converts and baptisms for these 2 missionaries are almost identical, yet one believes in infant baptism and the other does not? Well one easy way to resolve this phenomenon is to realize that, there are currently no children born to Christian parents on the island. Evidently ,the first goal of the missionaries is to convert the people of the island to the faith, not their children. This is the paradigm we see in the book of Acts. The Apostles preach the resurrection of Jesus Christ for the first time in Jerusalem and since there are currently no Christia...

Is Baptismal regeneration true or is Baptism a symbolic thing we do to show that we are saved and not a cause of our salvation? Well lets look at a few biblical passages as the Word of God is our foundation of Theology: Titus 3:5  “He  saved  us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the  washing of regeneration  and renewal in the Holy Spirit…” Acts 2:38  “And Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ  for the forgiveness of your sins ; and you shall  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit . 1 Peter 3:21  Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you , not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience Mark 16:16   “He who believes and is baptized will be   saved ; but he who does not believe will be condemned.” John 3:5 “ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you the truth, unless a man is   born of water and of...

  For my articles going forward an elementary understanding of the history of Christianity would be beneficial. By no means is this in any way exhaustive, it just gives a general time line of events. I am providing this because a good amount of Christians have a big gap in their knowledge of what happened between their new testament and 2024. Its almost as if we know Jesus died 2000 years ago but no clue as to how the church looked like for the past 2000 years THE APOSTOLIC ERA(33- 325) The year is 33 AD and our Lord Jesus is 33 years old and is crucified by the Roman empire, he rises from the dead and commissions his disciples to spread the Gospel to all nations. He's disciples do this and begin planting churches. Whenever a church had an issue they would write a letter to the apostle that established it and the apostle would write a letter back responding to the issue (These letters make up majority of our new testament). The apostles are killed and leave behind successors, to ru...

As modern day Christians we tend to see ourselves as individual Christians bound by the 21st century and within our specific denomination. We tend to believe that, that's all Christianity is and has always been. This is more a evangelical protestant mindset than a catholic or orthodox one. However Christianity is more than 2000 years old, we live in a tiny spec of Christian history and we tend to forget the existence of billions of Christians who came before us. The most notable of which are the Church fathers. The apostle John wrote five of our New testament books and is known as Jesus' most beloved disciple. He passes away around the year 99 AD, 66 years after our Lord Jesus was crucified. Similarly to how the apostle Paul had a man he discipled called Timothy (to whom 2 of our new testament books are written to 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy ) the apostle John had his own two disciples of a similar nature, Ignatius and Polycarp. 1 Timothy 2:1-2  You then, my child, be streng...