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To: esquirette
Catholicism proposes that God is not sovereign in many ways. Here is one:

“When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into heaven, brings Christ down from His throne and places Him upon our altar, to be offered up again as the victim for the sins of man. It is a greater power than that of monarch and emperors.”

Tell me about Reformed baptism. Do the Calvinists believe that the pastor reaches up into heaven, brings the Holy Spirit down and makes him go through the ritual of baptism on whomsoever the pastor decrees should be baptized? It is a greater power than that of monarch or emperors, right? Commanding the Holy Spirit? Isn't that sacriligious?

5,301 posted on 01/20/2010 4:45:19 PM PST by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

Baptism is a confirmation of the new birth, it does not confer new birth.


5,308 posted on 01/20/2010 6:09:59 PM PST by esquirette (If we do not know our own worldview, we will accept theirs.)
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To: MarkBsnr

“Do the Calvinists believe that the pastor reaches up into heaven, brings the Holy Spirit down and makes him go through the ritual of baptism on whomsoever the pastor decrees should be baptized?”

No.


5,309 posted on 01/20/2010 6:12:42 PM PST by esquirette (If we do not know our own worldview, we will accept theirs.)
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