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The Polemics of Infant Baptismby Benjamin B. Warfield The question of the Subjects of Baptism is one of that class of problems the solution of which hangs upon a previous question. According as is our doctrine of the Church, so will be our doctrine of the Subjects of Baptism. If we believe, with the Church of Rome, that the Church is in such a sense the institute of salvation that none are united to Christ save through the instrumentality of her ordinances, then we shall inevitably determine the proper subjects of her ordinances in one way. If, on the other ...

New Jersey Freepers, Libertarians, Second Amendment defenders -- a little known Hero died Sunday....The following is the text of an Email I received yesterday from Murray Sabrin, national Vice Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus (1997 Libertarian Party Candidate for Governor of New Jersey; 2000 Republican primaries Candidate for the GOP nomination for US Senate, New Jersey):Sad NewsMy father died peacefully at age 87 on Sunday at 1:20pm in St. Peter’s hospital in New Brunswick. We visited him on Friday; he was lucid and wanted to go home. My younger brother asked him how he felt and he said, “Cocky.” ...

Richard Shelby R-Ala., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Saturday noted that the war on terrorism should include a freer hand to assassinate foreign enemies and hire more unsavory covert operatives. He also said there's little difference between targeting an enemy in a bombing raid and trying to kill him with a hit squad. The bombing would be legal while a hit squad would be banned by a 25-year-old presidential order prohibiting foreign assassinations. President Bush needs to review the presidential ban that was signed by former President Gerald Ford, Shelby said in an interview.President Bush may not ...

CAPITALISM AT ITS FINESTA Modest Proposal for Citizen's WarAs you've probably heard, Bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization is estimated at as many as 20,000 followers in a loose-knit collective spanning as many as 37 countries. While Federal military action is entirely justified against the actual nation-States proven to be active sponsors and harbors of organized terrorist operations, surely we do not expect to declare National War on all of these countries where recruitment, support, and training cells exist. Nor should we trust the (shall we say, not 100% perfect) resources of US counter-terrorist Intelligence, hamstrung in their operations by the ...

Messiah Rules The NationsRev Steve Schlissel, Messianic Jewish Presbyter, Messiah's Congregation NYC, Messiah Rules the Nations (excerpted)HEB 1:1-5, verse five being a citation from the OT, Psalm 2 Trusting that God will give us wisdom. (read along) Thus the reading of the Word.Fifty two years ago, in his book, "The Sovereignty of God," Arthur Pink asked the question, "Who is regulating affairs on this earth today, God or the devil? That God reigns supreme in heaven is generally conceded. That he does so over this world is almost universally denied if not directly, then indirectly. But who is regulating affairs ...

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ARGUMENTS FOR ELECTION(1) If God does not unconditionally elect His own, then why do Christians pray for a love one's salvation? If the sole determining factor in one's salvation is that he or she chooses to believe, then why pray? Will not God say, "I really would like to help but it is up to the individual whether they will be saved." "But God," the believer cries, "Can you help them believe, even just a little bit?" To which the Lord replies, "I could, and in fact I could out right cause them to believe, but you know if I ...

The Constitutional Right of Secession by James Spence Secession is by no means a novel doctrine. In the first session of Congress under the new Constitution, it was threatened in the first serious contest that arose; and this in the presence of several of the framers of the Constitution. Again, when Washington expressed reluctance to be elected as President for a second term, Jefferson wrote to urge his assent; and the weightiest reason he assigned, in proof that the country required experience at the head of affairs, was this -- that the coming election would involve great danger of ...

Dabney On Supralapsarian and Infralapsarianby R. L. DabneyFrom Lecture 21 All who call themselves Calvinist admit that God's decree is, in his mind, a cotemporaneous unit. Yet the attempt to assign an order to its relative parts, has led to three schemes of predestination: that of the Supralapsarian, of the Infralapsarian, and of the hypothetic Universalist.The first suppose that in a rational mind, that which is ultimate as end, is first in design; and that, in the process of planning, the mind passes from the end to the means, traveling as it were backwards. Hence, God first designed His own ...

A prefatory Note:The following Essay employs logic which is fundamentally simple, and sound. However, it is often repetitive – logical points which have been established, are repeated again in the establishment of further points. I would urge the reader not to object overmuch to the (intentional) use of repetition, but rather note the reason for which it is employed: to wit, the demonstration that a claimed point does logically follow an already established point, and to re-affirm that an established point does necessitate the point following.Foreknowledge and PredestinationROMANS 8: 28 - 30And we know that all things work together for ...

A prefatory Note:The following Essay employs logic which is fundamentally simple, and sound. However, it is often repetitive – logical points which have been established, are repeated again in the establishment of further points. I would urge the reader not to object overmuch to the (intentional) use of repetition, but rather note the reason for which it is employed: to wit, the demonstration that a claimed point does logically follow an already established point, and to re-affirm that an established point does necessitate the point following.ROMANS 8: 28 - 30And we know that all things work together for good to ...

Rethinking Relativity No one has paid attention yet, but a well-respected physics journal just published an article whose conclusion, if generally accepted, will undermine the foundations of modern physics--Einstein's theory of relativity in particular. Published in Physics Letters A (December 21, 1998), the article claims that the speed with which the force of gravity propagates must be at least twenty billion times faster than the speed of light. This would contradict the special theory of relativity of 1905, which asserts that nothing can go faster than light. This claim about the special status of the speed of light has become ...

Confessions of a Reactionary Utopian March 27, 2001 The whole thing is wrong. How did we get into this mess? How can we ever get out? That’s my political outlook in a nutshell. Not so long ago, I was comfortably nestled into the Republican Party, confident that Ronald Reagan would set the world right. Oh, how naive! I shouldn’t even be confessing this in public. Well, here I am, much sadder but somewhat wiser, living under a government that kept expanding without limit during and after Reagan, while running up a national debt that would have made Jefferson — ...

No King but Jesus:An Theonomic exposition of Romans 13Contention I: The Authority of ScriptureQuestion: Does Scripture FULLY equip the Christian to all Good Works, including the Work of Good Governance?Answer: Scripture does FULLY equip the Christian to all Good Works.II TIMOTHY 3: 16-17 -- All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.Contention II: The Scriptural Mandate for GovernmentQuestion: Since the Christian Magistrate MUST, under the terms of 2 Timothy 3: 16-17, turn to ...

The Book of Joshua, General of the Armies of the Lord, Chapter 1 verse 18:Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.Question: What Is "The Law"?Answer: "The Law" is the promise of Death to all those who oppose it.Genesis 9: 6 -- Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.Law."Law" is thought to be many things. Some consider Law to ...

The Book of Joshua, General of the Armies of the Lord, Chapter 1 verse 18:Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.Question: What Is "The Law"?Answer: "The Law" is the promise of Death to all those who oppose it.Genesis 9: 6 -- Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.Law."Law" is thought to be many things. Some consider Law to ...

Jonah Goldberg says that "libertarians . . . need to understand that operationally they are still members of the capital 'R' Right." Sorry, but we don't accept that. Choosing between "left" and "right" today is like choosing between the Yankees and the Mets. Neither one is a carefully defined political philosophy that stands consistently on one side on every issue. I defy Mr. Goldberg to define conservatism in one sentence (or even one paragraph) that can tell you, for example, which of George Bush's initiatives conservatives should support. Both political movements are hypocritical. Conservatives sometimes claim to be for economic ...

Life, Rights, and Rock 'n' RollGary Cherone Asks Eddie Vedder Some QuestionsReleased January 22nd 2001In June of 1999 Gary Cherone wrote An Open Letter To Eddie Vedder asking "when is a woman not a woman." Later that year Cherone appeared on the Fox News Network The O'Reilly Factor where he defended his position and invited Vedder to a debate. Now, on the 28th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Cherone writes What About the 98.6 Degree Angle? (Another Letter To Eddie Vedder). Once again Cherone addresses the message of Vedder's position that "terminating pregnancy is not an easy thing." Though he ...

Libertarian Solutions Pollution Solution II: Restoration as a tool to save the environment BY DR. MARY RUWART Last month's "Libertarian Solutions" column explored two steps that libertarians would take to save the environment. First, libertarians would eliminate government's sovereign immunity so that victims of the country's greatest polluter -- government -- would have recourse. Second, libertarians would privatize "land and beast" to save endangered species, preserve our parks, protect our national forests, and improve our vast cattle ranges. In addition, libertarians would couple these powerful reforms with restitution, to prevent pollution before it starts. Libertarians reject the initiation of physical ...