tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999044146888823867.post8083646413378323090..comments2023-10-30T08:00:43.585-05:00Comments on Shameless Popery: A Hilarious Way of Proving Baptismal RegenerationJoe Heschmeyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06998682878420098470noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999044146888823867.post-22940751256900041182011-10-13T09:52:34.460-05:002011-10-13T09:52:34.460-05:00Hey, I have a friend who more or less accepts all ...Hey, I have a friend who more or less accepts all these arguments, but still chafes at the Catholic view of Baptism, thinking it "weird", etc. It seems something like a Christian Manicheanism, a notion that Christianity is a strictly spiritual, or non-material, affair.<br /><br />They see, or at least almost see, *that* Baptism is regenerational and integral to salvation. What they don't see is *why*; it seems like an arbitrary step for God to include. And this difficulty is a stumbling block to their fully embracing Catholic sacramentology.<br /><br />Do you have a good response to this? I know that our salvation, far from entailing an escape from the physical into a vacuous religious ether, involved an Incarnation and that the whole person is to be redeemed, body *and* soul. But, yet, I am unable to provide an explanation of Baptism that does not leave it seeming like an arbitrary edict. And this is only made more obvious by the fact that--when push comes to shove--I'm ready to dispense with it for a "baptism by desire" pretty much whenever anybody would otherwise deserve salvation. And yet I know its just not an arbitrary hurdle God places in our way. Can you tell me what I'm missing?Latenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028986769458356612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999044146888823867.post-78752033958176738192011-04-29T12:47:44.418-05:002011-04-29T12:47:44.418-05:00Thanks, I'd been wondering about that, since I...Thanks, I'd been wondering about that, since I've seen so many of them like this.Joe Heschmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06998682878420098470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999044146888823867.post-10501546327221043132011-04-29T05:38:41.855-05:002011-04-29T05:38:41.855-05:00Hilarious, thanks for the link.
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