Regeneration is the main thing

Look at how this paedo-baptist leaves out regeneration in his outline on paedo-baptism.

The first response to him innocently points this out (God bless her, though I suspect she is so engrafted into the culture of man-fearing that site and the churches of the people who populate that site promote that she will be easily put off from what the Spirit is telling her).

Notice also how the guy who wrote the initial post changes a basic Reformed understanding of the faith: he writes: "Grace precedes faith." The usual formula is: "Regeneration precedes faith." The change is both unconscious and intentional on his part. He can't speak of regeneration because it cuts the legs out from under his sacerdotalism (and it also convicts his man-fearing).

Regeneration is the main thing. It is what makes true believers. It is what happens to God's own. The problem with discussing it is you are committing the greatest supposed crime in the village of morality where most Christians reside by even mentioning regeneration. It stings them simply because they are currently unregenerate; and because they are nominal Christians it convicts them even more as man-fearing and proud unregenerate. There are innocent unregenerate human beings, and there are the proud unregenerate. The latter make up most of the leadership of so-called 'churches' as well as most of their congregations.

Regenerate Christians don't baptize babies because we know what baptism is: it is regeneration by the Word and the Spirit. It is not ritual. Ritual water babtism is a visual performance signifying nothing to an infant, and very little to an already regenerated by the Word and Spirit believer. The Bible is not clear on so-called 'sacraments' because they are not part of the faith. They are what the unregenerate use to put people into the bondage of the system of the Beast.

Real Christians, Christians regenerated by the Word and the Spirit, must commit themselves to no longer fearing upsetting these unregenerate, prideful fools who self-identify as Christian. Give them the Word of God *straight.* Show no fear in *upsetting* their precious selves. Yes they will ban you from their environments, in cyberspace and elsewhere, but so what. No real Christian desires to be in such sick environments.

Give them the Word of God, over and over.

One can't regenerate oneself or anyone else, but the pure and whole Word of God is the active agent when it does happen. Give the currently unregenerate the external shock of the living, quickening Word of God. Do it through all their mocking, spitting, kicking, and accusing. Then don't think you can make the planted seed grow, only God can do that.