The PuritanBoard, so-called, now fully exposed

"In Suk: I did not grant you permission to do anything but answer questions. Subsequent posts have been deleted." Link

That is from the moderator/administrator of the so-called PuritanBoard. (It sounds like it has the same spirit behind it that fueled the Jesuitical counter-Reformation.)

A contributor named In Suk has been asking about paedo-baptist beliefs and doing it in about as nice a manner as one will find anywhere in internet discourse, but he's been probing too close to the default belief in baptismal regeneration that paedo-baptists hold to without admitting (to others or to themselves, in most cases) that they hold to it*.

It's also a regeneration issue. The same moderator, losing his cool, launched into the usual Federal Vision, Lutheran-esque demands to know how In Suk could know he was regenerate. In Suk gave the answer all Christians who have been regenerated by the Word and the Spirit give: the Spirit testifies to his spirit. I was recently accused by two Lutherans that I couldn't know I was a regenerate Christian without pointing to ritual water baptism as 'evidence' of it. It is the same accusation made by all currently unregenerate (and angry) Christians towards Christians who have been regenerated. John Owen put it well saying it is the same anger Cain had for Abel.

The PuritanBoard is a good example of how churches are taken over by the dumbest, angriest, most bullying members. Rule by lowest common denominator.

The exodus of members (including the many bannings of members) apparently isn't enough to show them that they are not on the straight and narrow but on a path of man-fearing, being respecters of persons, and exalting man and ritual over the Word and the Spirit.

* Romanists bring their unbiblical belief in baptismal regeneration in through the front door in broad daylight. Lutherans bring their unbiblical belief in baptismal regeneration in through the back door in broad daylight. Reformed paedo-baptists bring their unbiblical belief in baptismal regeneration slinking in through the back door in the dead of night.

Question: what is so bad about a belief in baptismal regeneration? Answer: it is the demand of fallen man to be in control of something only God is in control of: regeneration. When a putative Christian demands to have control of regeneration through ritual they are closed off from the Spirit. They exalt man and ritual above the Word and the Spirit. They havn't humbled themselves to the Word and the Spirit (and since they believe ritual has regenerated them they now have given their fallen nature a reason to never be defeated or humbled which practically works itself out in a non-humble approach to the Word of God, i.e. not seeing the Word of God as something that is above them and that doesn't *need* them but seeing the Word of God as something they look down on and that needs them more than they need it; the issues of the received manuscripts vs. the constructed manuscripts comes in here). They are still man-centered and disdain to be God-centered. When they then set themselves up as leaders and teachers (and usually policers) of Christians they take the stench of hell fire onto themselves.