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2024-08-07T16:35:21-04:00

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John Chrysostom (c. 345-407) On Baptism

Last updated on: August 7, 2024 at 4:35 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Baptism and Being “Born Again” And for what reason, says one, if the laver take away all our sins, is it called, not a laver of remission of sins, nor a laver of cleansing, but a laver of regeneration? Because it does not simply take away our sins, nor simply cleanse us from our faults, but so as if we were born again. (Instructions to Catechumens, First, 3) Baptism and Justification / Sanctification Hear therefore what follows: “And such were... Read more

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2024-08-07T16:21:11-04:00

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Papal Infallibility: Reply to Lutheran Jordan Cooper

Last updated on: August 7, 2024 at 4:21 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Including Documentation of Popes’ Massive Consultation with Bishops and Others Before Declaring Dogmas, and Particulars of the Voting at Vatican I Rev. Dr. Jordan B. Cooper is a Lutheran pastor, adjunct professor of Systematic Theology, Executive Director of the popular Just & Sinner YouTube channel, and the President of the American Lutheran Theological Seminary (which holds to a doctrinally traditional Lutheranism, similar to the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod). He has authored several books, as well as theological articles in a variety of publications. All my Bible... Read more

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2024-08-06T10:03:13-04:00

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Ambrose (c. 336-397) On Baptism

Last updated on: August 6, 2024 at 10:03 am By Dave Armstrong

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In order that being renewed by baptism you might hold to that manner of life which beseems those who are washed. . . . Open, then, your ears, inhale the good savour of eternal life which has been breathed upon you by the grace of the sacraments . . . (On the Mysteries, ch. 1, 1, 3) There is also a third testimony, as the Apostle teaches us: For all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized to Moses in the... Read more

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2024-08-05T16:30:13-04:00

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Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-c. 394) On Baptism

Last updated on: August 5, 2024 at 4:30 pm By Dave Armstrong

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The time, then, has come, and bears in its course the remembrance of holy mysteries, purifying man —mysteries which purge out from soul and body even that sin which is hard to cleanse away, and which bring us back to that fairness of our first estate . . . you are enriched with a great gift: over you that are uninitiated, because you have a fair expectation of hope — remission of what is to be accounted for, release from bondage, close relation to God, free boldness... Read more

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2024-08-02T13:04:42-04:00

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Gregory Nazianzen (c. 330-c. 390) On Baptism

Last updated on: August 2, 2024 at 1:04 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Baptism and Grace We call it the Gift, because it is given to us in return for nothing on our part; Grace, because it is conferred even on debtors; Baptism, because sin is buried with it in the water; . . . Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin.... Read more

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2024-08-01T12:46:59-04:00

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Olympics Blasphemy & Christlike Righteous Indignation

Last updated on: August 1, 2024 at 12:46 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Some Catholics and other Christians are now lamenting the denunciation and outrage over what happened in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, with the mockery of the Last Supper and the hyper-sexualized mythological paganism. They have vociferously complained that too many (?) have expressed themselves in a manner that exhibits what they believe to be hatred, and works against a proper witness and evangelism. This is my reply regarding that particular issue. *** First of all, as a preliminary note... Read more

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2026-06-06T00:51:51-04:00

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Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 315-387) on Baptism

Last updated on: June 6, 2026 at 12:51 am By Dave Armstrong

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Baptism and Being “Born Again” It is not I that say this, but the Lord Jesus Christ, who has the power in this matter: for He saith, Except a man be born anew (and He adds the words) of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. . . . Peter commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ; in order that, the soul having been born again by faith, the body... Read more

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2024-07-31T10:21:35-04:00

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Athanasius & Basil the Great On Baptism

Last updated on: July 31, 2024 at 10:21 am By Dave Armstrong

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Athanasius (c. 297-373) What had they received but the Holy Spirit who is given to those who believe and are being born again ‘through the laver of regeneration’ [Titus 3:5: “the washing of regeneration” (RSV)]? (First Letter to Serapion, 4; see p. 70) . . . the divine grace which had been given to him in baptism . . . (Apologia ad Constantium, 7) For as we are all from earth and die in Adam, so being regenerated from above of water... Read more

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2024-07-30T18:14:35-04:00

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Hilary of Poitiers & Ephraim On Baptism

Last updated on: July 30, 2024 at 6:14 pm By Dave Armstrong

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St. Hilary of Poitiers (c. 315 to 368) . . . we being buried with His Death in Baptism may return to the life of eternity (since regeneration to life is death to the former life), and dying to our sins be born again to immortality, . . . (On the Trinity, Bk. I, 13) There is one Lord and one baptism of regeneration . . . they have put on one Christ through the nature of one baptism . . . born again in one baptism .... Read more

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2024-07-26T10:20:58-04:00

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Origen & Cyprian on Baptism

Last updated on: July 26, 2024 at 10:20 am By Dave Armstrong

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Origen (c. 185-c. 254) In the Acts of the Apostles, the Holy Spirit was given by the imposition of the apostles’ hands in baptism. From all which we learn that the person of the Holy Spirit was of such authority and dignity, that saving baptism was not complete except by the authority of the most excellent Trinity of them all, i.e., by the naming of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and by joining to the unbegotten God the Father, and to His only-begotten Son, the name also of the Holy Spirit. (Origen, De Principiis,... Read more

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