Discalced Baptist

For a brief time in my life, I accepted the Presbyterian doctrine of infant baptism.  I grew up Baptist, but as I became more Reformed in my theology, the issue was inescapable (especially since I found myself attending a Presbyterian church).  I wrestled with it for over a year before having my first son sprinkled.  Shortly thereafter I withdrew from being convinced of infant baptism and continued to wrestle with the issue for another year or two, continuing to become more and more convinced of the Baptist position. A good exegete of Scripture uses historical-grammatical method of exegesis.  It truly is one of the most responsible ways to handle a text, though it flies in the face of our postmodern, deconstructed society.  This is a pretty straight forward method in my opinion.  To determine the meaning of a passage one should look at the historical context in which it is written, and then look at the grammar of the passage in light of the historical...

Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and his will which is necessary unto salvation. Three things listed here leave men inexcusable, and display attributes of God: Light of Nature Works of Creation Providence Light of Nature What is the light of nature referring to?  Simply put, morality.  Our sense of right and wrong is evidence of God.  In the Philosophy of Religion, there is the subject known as "The Problem of Evil."  Many great and armchair philosophers have used the existence of evil to deny the existence of some omni-benevolent deity.  The problem is, for them to claim there is evil, they must use "borrowed capital" from the Christian.  How do they create a standard by which they judge something as evil?  Apart from a Divine Lawmaker, there is no satisfacto...