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Leithart puts forward the enlightening notion of "ecclesiological Nestorianism." The invisible Church of the elect united as Christ's corporate body is one thing, and the visible, historical church another. Often, they do the same thing, but they are not the same thing.
Most Christians operate under this framework, but it is unScriptural and somehow even more damaging to the gospel than Christological Nestorianism.
— Jan 09, 2025 10:02AM
Most Christians operate under this framework, but it is unScriptural and somehow even more damaging to the gospel than Christological Nestorianism.
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Andrew Meredith
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The Body of Christ is the Body of Christ.
This seeming tautology is actually counter to what many theologians teach, believing as they do in an invisible church of the elect inside the visible established church. The problem is that the Bible never talks like this. There is a historical Church and an eschatological Church. The Church as she is: warts, false disciples, and all, and the pure Church as she shall be.
— Jan 08, 2025 05:59PM
This seeming tautology is actually counter to what many theologians teach, believing as they do in an invisible church of the elect inside the visible established church. The problem is that the Bible never talks like this. There is a historical Church and an eschatological Church. The Church as she is: warts, false disciples, and all, and the pure Church as she shall be.
Andrew Meredith
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Trinitarian theology has always been radically opposed to any notion of impersonalism (from, through, to). Baptism and the Lord's Supper are not tools that God uses to impart to us some ethereal substance called "grace" ("means of grace"). They are God's personal favors (graces); His gifts to His people.
Baptism is His washing of His bride, and the Eucharistic meal is His inviting His bride to feast with and on Him.
— Jan 07, 2025 12:45PM
Baptism is His washing of His bride, and the Eucharistic meal is His inviting His bride to feast with and on Him.
Andrew Meredith
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The grammatical second person is the existential first person. We are "you"s long before we are ever "I"s, and the "I" that results is formed by the "you" and continually reformed by the "you" throughout our lives.
Autonomy and self-determination are lies. We, (the "I"s), conform and reform ourselves to the patterns and horizons set forth before us in the "you"s.
Baptize your children and raise them as Christians.
— Jan 07, 2025 11:20AM
Autonomy and self-determination are lies. We, (the "I"s), conform and reform ourselves to the patterns and horizons set forth before us in the "you"s.
Baptize your children and raise them as Christians.
Andrew Meredith
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What is Baptism? It is a (ritualistic) symbol exactly as words are symbols representing reality beyond themselves, and it speaks of the recipient being united to Christ, washed of sin, and accepted by God as part of His Church. When a minister baptizes, it is God who is baptizing and speaking through the water.
Why baptize an infant? Why speak to an infant at all? It is the same question with the exact same answer.
— Jan 07, 2025 11:03AM
Why baptize an infant? Why speak to an infant at all? It is the same question with the exact same answer.
By removing the social and political components of the "true" church (the community representing Christ's presence on Earth), Ecclesiological Nestorianism implicitly (or sometimes explicitly) denies the ongoing relevance of the Cultural Mandate (Gen 1:28-30; 9:1-7), as if the Fall caused God to abandon and rewrite His entire plan for humanity and His cosmos.
Significantly reducing the scope of redemption and the regeneration, this truncated gospel only tries to get people off the boat (this world) before it sinks ("Why polish doorknobs on the Titanic?"), not understanding that the boat is still very much afloat and has a glorious destination that it is, and has always been, skillfully steered toward as Christ continues to work through His Spirit in His Body, the visible, historical Church, to steer it.