SPROUL EXHORTS BAPTIST GROUP
TO RETURN TO
REFORMATION [07/01--2005]
At the Founders Breakfast, reportedly 300
attendees during the week of the recent Southern Baptist Convention in
Nashville, Dr. R. C. Sproul, a Pedobaptist (baby baptizer), exhorted the
audience to hark back to the preaching and theology of the
Reformation.
According to the Baptist Press {June 29, 2005] among
other things, Sproul reportedly exhorted:
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Referencing
Luther's sermon, Sproul reminded listeners that those who preached a false
gospel that necessitated the Protestant Reformation did so because they were
seeking power. It is not so different today with the popularity of watered-down
gospels, Sproul said, and Christians must follow Luther's example and settle for
nothing less than the uncompromised Gospel which is the power of God unto
salvation.
"You can't improve upon the Gospel," Sproul said. "You want a
reformation, preach it. Don't hide it. Make it clear and let God work."
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While Baptists appreciate the significant role that Martin
Luther fulfilled in the 1500s in regard to Roman Catholicism and the role of
other leaders of the Protestant Reformation, would it really be the part of
wisdom to somehow "go back" to what Luther and those other reformers believed
and practiced?
Luther and the others baptized babies, and
considered babies to be regenerated (born again) in their infancy. Is
this the "Gospel"?
The Presbyterian reformers held that the infants of
believing parents receive the inheritance of the "covenant," which supposedly
carries with the infant regeneration of the children of believing parents, and
the supposed regenerated infants are added to the church. Is the "Gospel"? Is it
any wonder that we have seen so much apostasy among the Presbyterians across the
years, with so many of the members thinking the were born again as
infants?
Why should the Founders Ministries organization be listening to
and promoting a return to something which our Baptist forefathers found
scriptural cause to repudiate in England and America in the years succeeding the
Protestant Reformation?
As long as the Founders play footsies with the
Pedobaptists, we will not regard their pretentions to represent the Baptist
"Founders" of the past as a true representation.
-- Bob L.
Ross
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