Formula Confessor

Musaeus is better than Calov.

@_BrettRyanMusic @larson_rev Your view of baptism is backwards, you can’t divide when Christ says you must be baptized of spirit and water, that is the same moment. In addition, point to scripture that discusses baptism work, not “the thief on the cross” argument

The New Testament uses “baptism” (Greek: immerse/overwhelm) in multiple ways—not all the same. 1. John’s Baptism – Water for repentance, preparing for Messiah (Matt 3:1-6; Mark 1:4; Acts 19:1-4). It pointed forward but lacked the Holy Spirit’s full work. 2. Jesus’ Baptism – By John “to fulfill all righteousness” (Matt 3:13-17). Unique event; sinless Jesus identified with us. 3. Baptism with the Holy Spirit – Inward work by Christ at true faith/repentance. Joins you to His body (1 Cor 12:13; Eph 4:5 – “one baptism”). Brings new birth from above (John 3:3-8). This is the real spiritual baptism. 4. Baptism with Fire – Linked to Spirit; purification/judgment on sin (Matt 3:11). 5. Baptism of Suffering – Jesus’ immersion in crucifixion (Mark 10:38-39; Luke 12:50). Metaphorical. 6. Baptized unto Moses – Figurative identification in cloud/sea (1 Cor 10:1-2). 7. Christian Water Baptism – Outward ordinance: full immersion after believing. Public witness of death to sin, burial, and resurrection with Christ (Matt 28:19; Acts 2:38; Rom 6:3-4; Col 2:12). Obedience and testimony—not the means of salvation. The thief on the cross was saved by faith without it. Key: Ephesians 4:5’s “one baptism” is the Holy Spirit’s inward work. Water baptism is the visible sign that follows. Salvation comes by grace through faith in the Word; the Spirit gives new life. Water shows what God has already done inside.

Recently, I was asked why Baptism is necessary before one can receive the Lord's Supper. In brief, Baptism marks the start of the Christian life, while the Holy Supper nourishes the new life that has already begun through baptism in Christ Jesus.

@_BrettRyanMusic @larson_rev Why do you need to say water baptism? You can just say baptism

What does Scripture teach is the true starting point of new life in Christ — the inward work of the living Word bringing faith and the Holy Spirit, or the outward act of water baptism? Have you weighed Romans 10:17 — “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” — alongside the thief on the cross in Luke 23:39-43? He heard Christ’s living Word directly, repented in his heart, believed, and received the promise “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” No water touched him, yet salvation was immediate and complete through that Word alone. What does this reveal about where the new birth actually begins? In John 4:10-14 and John 7:38-39, Jesus speaks of living water that becomes “a well of water springing up into everlasting life,” and the text plainly states this is the Holy Spirit received the moment one believes. How does this living water (the Word/Christ/Holy Spirit) quench spiritual thirst and grant eternal life through simple faith, separate from any physical ritual? Ephesians 4:5 declares “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” According to the studies, this one baptism is the Holy Spirit joining the believer’s spirit with God’s Spirit — the inward reality that occurs when one trusts the Word. Water baptism follows as the public profession and witness of that inward change. Have you examined Romans 6:3-4? “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead… even so we also should walk in newness of life.” This describes water baptism as the outward picture — a public showing before men of repentance, the changed heart, and the new life already begun by faith in the living Word. It acknowledges the inward reality but does not create it. In Matthew 3:11, John says, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me… shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.” At Pentecost (Acts 2), the Holy Spirit came with tongues like as of fire and filled believers — no physical water was present. Why does this distinction matter for the order: the living Word and Holy Spirit bring faith and inward baptism first, then water baptism declares it publicly as the joyful witness of a changed heart and new life? 1 Corinthians 10 shows Israel identified (“baptized”) unto Moses in the cloud and sea before partaking of spiritual meat and drink (Christ the Rock). Does this pattern support inviting all to hear the living Word and believe first (receiving the true living water), with water baptism as the proper public testimony afterward for those who can take that step, before nourishing the new life at the Lord’s Supper? If the Lord’s Supper is remembrance and ongoing sustenance “as often as” for those already walking in newness of life (1 Corinthians 11), and we are told not to judge one another on days or observances (Colossians 2:16, Romans 14), what does the thief’s instant salvation by the living Word challenge us to examine about guarding the table? Is the real danger in 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 a lack of prior water ceremony, or a lack of genuine self-examination, faith, and discerning the Lord’s body? These questions press hard into the full counsel of the Word: salvation by grace through faith in the living Word (the true living water that brings the Holy Spirit and new birth), water baptism as the ordained public profession and witness of that inward reality for all who believe (showing repentance and new life before men), and the Lord’s Supper as nourishment for those already in Christ — without adding to the simplicity of “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

@solasectora @SteveMeisterVDM Alphabet soup theology

@bocconfessor @SteveMeisterVDM This is what happens when you get your theology degree from a box of cracker jacks.

Guys, instead of getting some ash on your forehead tomorrow, you can confess your sins in prayer with the church every Lord’s Day. You really can just do biblical things!

@SteveMeisterVDM @solasectora Through the means he ordained? Like eating and drinking his body and blood in the Eucharist? Or being saved in the waters of baptism

@solasectora No, I want people to glorify God and receive the grace He gives through the means He ordained in Scripture. I also want people to flee the hypocrisy of disfiguring their appearance to announce a fast, which the Lord Jesus Himself warned us of (Matt 6:16-17).

@5Solas2 Slop so bad it got me siding with the papist

@bing_TX @BradRTorgersen @HansFiene I’m just pointing out that his appeal to authority isn’t the strong idea that he posited

@bocconfessor @BradRTorgersen @HansFiene It shows that you don't have to be uneducated to believe it.

LO and I cannot stress this enough L

@BradRTorgersen @HansFiene If every doctor lawyer etc was an atheist, that doesn’t prove that atheism is right

Amazing, then, that over 17 million people subscribe to that blithering nonsense. Including doctors, lawyers, college professors, military men, NASA engineers, etc. Either that's some straight S-tier amazing blither, or 17 million people are just mouth-breathing dupes. Which is it, Hans?

@parodyqueen @MetzUAC1530 You deny Baptism, the Supper and Confession?

@MetzUAC1530 No sacraments in any Bible

Faith receives the sacraments, it does not make them. The word of God makes the sacraments what they are.

@amblingtree @LeavePubSchool Beat me to pointing out baptized children 💪

@LeavePubSchool My kids were baptized as babies, so they’re regenerate. Even so, as long as I can help it, they’re never going to public school.

Christians who send their children to Public School to be "salt and light": Please give examples of other places you send unregenerate 6 year-olds to do mission work.

@WmWeedon 4. Oh, where is your sting, death? We fear thee no more; Christ rose, and now open is fair Eden's door. For all our transgressions His blood does atone; Redeemed and forgiven, we now are His own.

Will be there, just us and Jesus with all his saints. Christians have a hard time expressing this great joy and expectation to others, but it is what gets us through the dark days. “Because I live, you will live also.” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! Come!

A weird thread: at the funeral I got to see Helen Klaussing. She was originally a Schumacher, the last of her siblings still with us. They were the most jolly bunch you could ever meet: Ruth, Hilbert, and above all Irma. A number of others too.

@TheDonStein No ELH? Shame

We’ve got a Matthew 22:12 situation in the church library.

@Joehcq1 @Marshmutt452 @Protestia LCMS here, we are not the only conservative Lutheran church body in America. The AALC, WELS and ELS are also confessional and conservative

@Marshmutt452 @Protestia Orthodox Presbyterian Church, one of the largest conservative Presbyterian churches, and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, the only conservative Lutheran church. There are solid, deeply rooted reformation churches. People who see the vapid shallowness of evangelicalism often /1

What Superbowl Sunday was like at City Reach Church in Texas.

@MetzUAC1530 Funny how they use “Creedal Christian” as if it’s an insult

That actual Christianity is anything like the absurd cult that they’ve left.

Imagine not only believing this nonsense, but not being embarrassed about believing it enough that you would actually say it in public. No, people who leave Mormonism realize just how utterly ridiculous it is, the gaslighting that they endured, and they foolishly think…

@cfw_walther @kilistsi Thanks for letting me borrow your gold leaf version of Gerhards Commonplaces

@kilistsi Moots are gonna kill me for this, but hello.

@cfw_walther @HankRenter Catholics will ignore the BoC yet still bash us

@HankRenter We say the bread and wine become the body of Christ, it doesn't mean they cease to be bread and wine. Can you define the Lutheran position on the matter?

So you agree the bread and wine are present are earthly substances, signifying the heavenly substances.

@3AngelsWatchman @BillGrahamtoo @LutheranPrince What if I go to Saturday and Sunday?

@bocconfessor @BillGrahamtoo @LutheranPrince Those who worship God on sunday are worshipping the beast automatically

I would rather abstain from the Eucharist for the rest of my life than receive it from a woman.

@3AngelsWatchman @BillGrahamtoo @LutheranPrince Since you cant comprehend I am not a papisr

@bocconfessor @BillGrahamtoo @LutheranPrince

@3AngelsWatchman @LutheranPrince Not a papist

@bocconfessor @LutheranPrince Yeah...

@BillGrahamtoo @3AngelsWatchman @LutheranPrince I’m not a papist

@bocconfessor @3AngelsWatchman @LutheranPrince God, who is love, will inflict ECT on everyone who, knowledgeably, doesn't accept that the RCC is Christ's only "true" church. Yeah that makes absolutely no sense, Biblically or otherwise.