This wasn't supposed to get out into the media
"At West Park [Presbyterian church], Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font’s 800-pound base. Holy water — straight from the River Jordan — had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base’s bowl."
Read N. Y. Post article here.
The above is a portion of a story about how Occupy Wallstreet people are stealing from and pissing in churches that are giving them shelter. Though the above quote is what caught my attention. It's a Presbyterian church. They have a concept of 'holy water'. From the Jordan even.
This is what the belief - or the fallen demand for - infant baptism leads to. It is a Romanist practice, and don't allow any paedo-baptist tell you Reformed infant baptism is any different from Romanist infant baptism. Both disdain God's sovereignty in regeneration. Actually hate it. Both exalt man and ritual over the word and the Spirit. Both believe in baptismal regeneration, and in fact demand it. And both - it too follows - have a low valuation for the Bible. Both are on the same page in pushing mutilated, corrupted versions of the Bible.
Paedo-baptism (infant baptism) is not a minor, silly, unimportant leftover from the Roman Beast church. It is where churchians who disdain God's sovereignty in grace (God is sovereign in creation, providence, and grace) make their stand against God. Regeneration is the main thing. The most important thing. The devil knows ritual doesn't effect regeneration. The Roman Beast church called people to be baptized all day and all night. Yet what did they keep away from people on penalty of torture and death? That's right, the word of God. Satan knows what regenerates God's elect, and it isn't cleric and ritual. It is the word and the Spirit.
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I go overboard in my criticism of the infant baptists as a rhetorical tactic. As long as they don't (truly don't) believe in baptismal regeneration and hence downgrade the word and the Spirit as what truly effects regeneration; and I'll add, as long as they don't distort biblical doctrine to accommodate or protect infant baptism, in effect making all of biblical doctrine a servant to infant baptism, then it's not a big deal. But, you know, they do do those things, so...
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