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#oldschool_vs_newschool
Leon Sy
But did you really depart from the Reformed
faith? Or were you just analysing it correctly? Coz u r still teaching the 1689
LBCF in your church, not only once, but 3 times. If u hv departed from the
Reformed Baptist faith, y did u teach the 1689 LBCF 3 times over the last 30
years.
sing
I went
back to the faith held by the old-school Baptists who gave us the 1689 CoF.
The new school Baptists, like the Reformed
Baptists, have departed from what is faithfully summarised in the 1689 CoF.
I have studied and written extensively on the
1689 CoF... pointing out the glaring errors of the RBs.
Here is an example of how the new is so
different from the old:
The new: you believe in order to be justified
by God;
The old: you believe because you have been
justified by God.
Here is a classic example:
On Faith. and Justification
Dr John Gill (1697-1771) was an old-school particular-baptist theologian, universally esteemed by his contemporaries of various denominations, and also by Dr Robert L. Reymond (1932-2013), a
renowned reformed theologian.
Dr Reymond said of John Gill:
"Gill (1697-1771), a Baptist puritan
pastor, writes a thorough defence of Calvinistic theology."
- the above is listed under "Selected
General Theological Bibliography" on page 1137 of Dr. Robert L Reymond's
"A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith" Nelson, 1998.
Dr John Gill on faith and justification:
"Faith is not the cause, but an effect
of justification; it is not the cause of it in any sense; it is not the moving
cause, that is the free grace of God... nor even the instrumental cause... it
is not in any class of causes whatever; but it is the effect of
justification... Now if faith is not the cause, but the effect of
justification; then as every cause is before its effect, and every effect
follows its cause, justification must be before faith, and faith must follow
justification."
- A Body of Doctrinal Divinity Book II,
Chapter V, section II. (1769)
Dr Robert L Reymond on faith and
justification:
"The New Testament everywhere makes it
plain that faith in Jesus Christ is the instrumental 'precondition' [in italic]
of justification before God... Therefore, faith in Jesus Christ... must precede
justification as its logical (not chronological) prius... Thus we have the
order: effectual calling... and faith in Jesus Christ, justification, and
glorification."
- A New Systematic Theology of the Christian
Faith, page 707. (1998, Nelson)
How vast is the difference between the
old-school and the new-school theology - it is a gulf unbridgeable!
If the words of Mr Luther - "the
doctrine of justification is the article of a standing or falling church"
- were true, then how many of the reformed churches are standing churches
today?
Is your church standing?
