Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Baptismal Regeneration


On Sunday I attended the Roman Catholic Church in my own suburb, Sea Point (see photo). This was another Church that was packed. The message was: are you making progress with the calling God gave you? OBSERVATION: I received a Diocesan handout on entering. It said: "Most of us cannot remember the day of our baptism given that we were still babies. Nevertheless, every baptised person has been born again by water and the Holy Spirit ..." This is of course the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. It is rather antithetical to the teaching of our own Church, namely that a direct encounter with God is essential.

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