Naked Bible 004: Baptism: Contradictions in Creeds Part 3

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Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Contradictions over baptism and salvation in creeds, continued (Part 3). In the previous episode, we saw how the Belgic Confession and Heidelberg Catechisms offered muddled, contradictory statements on salvation by grace through faith and what happens at baptism. This episode details more of the same, this time in the Westminster Confession.

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0:00.0	If you're a Johns Interstate, please press the links below.
0:16.0	Yes!
0:24.3	wheel!?
0:27.1	Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.
0:36.0	In the previous episode of the podcast, we looked at the Heidelberg Catechism and its
0:40.7	confusing statements about salvation only by grace through faith and what it says baptism
0:47.3	accomplishes.
0:49.5	While the Catechism affirmed the former, its clarity in that regard was marred by careless
0:54.7	statements about baptism that followed.
0:58.3	In this episode, we'll look at the same sort of problematic language in parts of the
1:03.6	Westminster Confession.
1:06.1	Our procedure will be that I will give the chapter heading of the confession and then
1:10.4	read its content and then offer some commentary.
1:15.0	So let's get started.
1:17.0	Chapter 11 of the Westminster Confession of justification.
1:22.0	Quote.
1:23.5	Number 1.
1:25.0	Those whom God effectively calleth, he also freely justifiedeth.
1:30.5	Not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins and by accounting
1:36.4	and accepting their persons as righteous.
1:39.8	Not for anything wrought in them or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone.
1:46.2	Or by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them
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