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Satan knows. View quoted note →

"In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, 'Ha! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!'" Luke 4:33-34

No “cheap grace” allowed, ya gotta earn that shit. Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father.” Now doing the Will of my father, I mean me and that Holy Spirit (all me really but people liked the 3 deal so we crowbarred that in there) will leave ya confused and frustrated by all the contradictions so you just keep putting money in the plate and listen to what those rapists priests say ok? John 3:16 “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Doesn't this contradict your claim that we're saved through faith alone? Or have I misinterpreted your beliefs?

No. Saving faith is granted by the Spirit, which effectuates a drawing of the regenerated believer into Christ. This begins the process of sanctification, where the saints life is transgormed by this gift of faith, which bears much fruit.

Washer is saying that a true saving faith makes someone detest their prior sinfulness, and become ever estranged from the world. False faith acknowledges Christ is Lord while remaining carnal in every other respect.

Yeah that sounds like perfect contrition vs imperfect contrition. How do you know if you're perfectly contrite? How can you know if you're saved despite imperfect contrition?

The only way to judge one's own election is by (a) a conviction granted by testimony to the heart by the Spirit within and (b), a transformation of preferences/wants/desires especially in regards to a desire to carry out the ordinary means of grace, and (c) a heightened sensitivity to sin paired with God's discipline leading to confession and repentence. Ultimately, saints granted saving faith will persevere until the end, while those lying to themselves will fall away from Christ.

I don't subscribe to the system of confessional salvation. I don't believe one is flipping back and forth between being saved or not based on their whether they are properly confessed. Instead, I believe that the Spirit makes believers out of predestined unbelievers, regenerating them, drawing them into Christ, and guiding them into the ordinary means of grace (studying the word, praying, fellowship, and a life of repentence) and keeps them there until the end while God prepares them for Himself through sanctification, where the saint is progressively made more Christlike in his time.

Is there no physical representation of the actions of the Holy Spirit? In this case the sacrament of penance. Has the Christ left us with only the a, b, and can to go on? Can one on Earth not lose their sanctifying grace through committing mortal sin? Or do you posit that they never had this sanctifying grace if they could choose to commit mortal sin? If this is the case, could one chosen by God to be sanctified ever choose sin?

I don't believe Catholicism is Christianity. Not to say God's elect people can't be Catholic, just that the church itself is an apostate, Antichrist institution. From the original Westminster Confession: > There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God. (WCF 25.6)

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The Westminster Confession and the Antichrist

According to the Westminster Confession, the Pope in the Antichrist. Is this true?

There is evidence of regeneration: the believers life is transformed and begins bearing God-honoring fruit.

No I don't believe Christ can fail to save one of God's predestined people.

Us reformed Christians carry out ordinances (baptism, the lords supper) as gifts of loyalty for those in God's adopted family. We explicitly avoid the term sacraments because we believe salvation is a product of faith alone, which can only be granted by God's grace, and that God will not fail to redeem His elect people to Himself.

Was there any early church father who held this view of salvation, baptism, grace etc.?

The earliest church fathers that held that salvation was by faith and not by "sacraments" was the disciples, as was taught to them by Jesus. Peter called baptism a pledge. Paul says the Lord's Supper is a memorial. These are the only two ordinances recognized by the earliest church fathers. Everything else was added on by man. Scripture goes into detail on the mechanics of salvation, and that by faith in Jesus Christ alone is one saved. And yes: a saving faith is never alone: it always produces God-honoring fruit.

You're referring to 1 Peter 3:21, ostensibly, in which Peter literally says that baptism saves you. Obviously the water is not what saves you materially, it is the Holy Spirit which saves, but clearly one does not have baptism without water. This is what makes it a sacrament, it has both a material form and spiritual form at once. Going back to confession, how do you reconcile Matthew 18:18? In this quote Jesus is speaking to his disciples telling them that they have the authority to assert heavenly bounds on earth, this has been interpreted and maintained as apostolic authority to forgive sins on earth and in heaven, through Christ's authority solely. Similarly how do you reconcile John 20:23-24? Another quotation of Jesus speaking to the apostles, here our Lord speaks in clearer terms granting explicit authority to the apostles to forgive sins on earth as in heaven. The authority of which only comes from Christ through the Holy Spirit of course, same for all sacraments, but the material evidence of which is the role of the apostolic priest. Once again this is the interpretation maintained from even before the canonization of the bible by early church fathers, and remains so 2,000 years later in the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Where did this interpretation err in this apostolic lineage?

"Be gone from me I never know you." = unregenerate who returns to be with the carnal world. View quoted note →

The Biblical concept of faith is inseparable from obedience. And since we are inclined by nature to sin, love ourselves in our rebellion, and disobey God in immeasurable ways, it stands to reason that a saving faith *must* be granted by God in order to establish a God-pursuing, obedient inclination amongst the people that God is preparing for Himself. Anybody can merely acknowledge that Christ is Lord. The devil acknowledges it. Saints are prepared, they are sanctified, through their obedience and persevering pursuance of God, something they cannot boast about of themselves, but must grant all glory to God alone. "Carnal" Christianity is not Christianity. #ToChristAlone View quoted note →