It is often claimed, almost always by those rejecting it, that the Puritans invented the regulative principle of worship. A good and often printed article on Calvin by Robert Godfrey is online here. The following is an extract from "The Regulative Principle of Worship: Sixty Years in Reformed Literature Part One (1946–1999)," By Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D. with Chris Coldwell, in The Confessional Presbyterian (2006) 89-164.

The year 1977 also saw the appearance of perhaps the earliest thesis to make

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People with the wrong philosophies trouble every where. It is very true of our nation. A young man had to pay for his life because of entring a temple to worship god Shiva.

This happend a few months ago, when a youth of 26 years, belonging to a, so called, lower cast went into a temple to pray, he was beaten for entering into the temple of god Shiva. This young man died in the hospital due to severe injuries.

The temples are basically meant for higher castes, although...

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My summary of Paul Manata's Intro to the debate.

Premise 1. Baptism is for those who enter the Church

Premise 2. Infants of one or more Christian parents are Church members.

Paul discusses the grammitical historical hermeneutic. We both agree on that. Then he makes the point that family plays a BIG role in discovering the truth of what we are looking at.

Then Paul starts to discuss the ramifications of being covenantally cursed and how...

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I have decided to finish listening to the Paul and Gene debate and finish commenting on it. I will post my first two portions then start on the rest.


I was commenting as I listened to the debate. so here is the first part.



Well, I have listened to the first few things Gene said and He starts off on a bad foot in my estimation. He stated that Baptism is one of the doctrines that wasn't reformed. And that in itself is a major misunderstanding...

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