What are the longest books of the Bible?

It depends on how you count. For instance, do we count words or chapters? What about books like 1 & 2 Samuel, which were only broken up due to scroll length limits? Or the minor prophets, who were bound together?

But counting by words our usual divisions:

1. Jeremiah (33,002 words)
2. Genesis (32,046 words)
3. Psalms (30,147 words)
4. Ezekiel (29,918 words)
5. Exodus (25, 957 words)
6. Isaiah (25,608 words)
7. Numbers (25,048 words)
8. Deuteronomy (23,008 words)
9. 2 Chronicles (21,349 words)
10. 1 Samuel (20,361 words)

Charles Hodge: On Christian Nurture:

[It is] a scriptural truth that the children of believers are the children of God; as being within his covenant with their parents, he promises to them his Spirit; he has established a connection between faithful parental training and the salvation of children, as he has between seed-time and harvest, diligence and riches, education and knowledge. In no one case is absolute certainty secured or the sovereignty of God excluded. But in all, the divinely appointed connection between means and end, is obvious.

That this connection is not more apparent, in the case of parents and children, is due in great measure, to the sad deficiency in parental fidelity. If we look over the Christian world, how few  nominally Christian parents even pretend to bring up their children for God. In a great majority of cases the attainment of some worldly object is avowedly made the end of education; and all the influences to which a child is exposed are designed and adapted to make him a man of the world. And even within the pale of evangelical churches, it must be confessed, there is a great neglect as to this duty ... We of course recognize the native depravity of children, the absolute necessity of their regeneration by the Holy Spirit, the inefficiency of all means of grace without the blessing of God. But what we think is plainly taught in Scripture, what is reasonable in itself, and confirmed by the experience of the church, is, that early, assiduous, and faithful religious culture of the young, especially by believing parents, is the great means of their salvation.

Which books of the OT are quoted the most and least in the NT?

It depends on how you count references, paraphrases, and direct quotations, but the following is a rough list:

1. Psalms - 68
2. Isaiah - 55
3. Deuteronomy - 44
4. Genesis - 35
5. Exodus - 31
6. Leviticus - 13
7. Proverbs - 8
8. Zechariah - 7
9. Hosea - 6
10. Jeremiah - 5

Habakkuk and Malachi are quoted 4x each, Numbers 3x, and the remaining books are quoted only once or twice. The following are not quoted at all:

- Judges
- Ruth
- Ezra
- Esther
- Ecclesiastes
- Song of Solomon
- Lamentations
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Zephaniah

Scripture never once commands us to attempt to divine the contents of another man's mind or heart.

The pietistic practice of looking for "evidence" of salvation, and especially of conditioning baptism, the eucharist, and church membership on it is deadly and deeply anti-biblical. Rather Deut. 29:29,

The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Collect for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost

Almighty and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Only a Living Faith Justifies: WCF 11.2:

II. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification: yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but works by love.


Bare assent is no better than the papists' "implicit faith." Cf. WCF 14.2.

Best Protestant YouTube Channels (that you might not know):

1. Reformation Red Pill
2. Take Hold Studios
3. Got a Minute?
4. Reformed Forum
5. The Aaron Renn Show
6. Jordan B. Cooper
7. James B. Jordan Archive
8. Bryan Wolfmeuller
9. Theopolis Institute
10. Rushdoony Radio

Why We Worship on the First (or Eighth) Day
 
When the first Adam arose out of the ground on the sixth day of creation, his first full day was the day of worship. When the second Adam arose out of the ground, his first full day is now our day of worship.
 
Nor is it coincidental that this should be the eighth day. God already told us to expect that when circumcision, the sign of regeneration was commanded to be administered on the eighth day, and that Noah’s baptism saved specifically eight persons, which St. Peter links to our regeneration. This motif plays out in more subtle ways, such as the eight frames of the tabernacle (Ex. 26:25) and Jesus worshipping on the eighth day (Lk. 9:28).

Reformed Catholicity: Big-Tent Calvinism
 
Up until the 20th century, the Reformed world was a big tent with many differences. Calvin compromised with the Genevan council on many points, affirmed the Lutheran Augsburg Confession, and wrote the Consensus Tigurinus to forge unity with the Zwinglians.
 
This big-tent tradition continued in the English Reformation, where Cranmer drew on both Calvinist and Lutheran theologians, where the Westminster Assembly drew up a reasonable compromise document allowing a broad range of Reformed views.
 
Where England failed to allow a range of views, the adherents came to America and the church broadly but especially the Reformed church enjoyed centuries of relative peace and tranquility.
 
In the 20th century, no doubt driven to extremes by the pressures of liberalism, the Reformed church began fighting internecine battles over issues where truces had long ago been called. John Frame’s excellent essay “Machen’s Warrior Children” ably documents these areas of disagreement, and calls for greater peace. And while I don’t agree with all of Frame’s analyses, in large part, his point is well taken.

The Baptismal Regeneration of Elect Infants by Cornelius Burgess, Westminster Divine
 
Elect infants do ordinarily receive the Spirit in baptism as the efficient principle of future actual regeneration... It is agreeable to the institution of Christ, that all elect infants that are baptized… do ordinarily receive, from Christ, the Spirit in baptism, for their first solemn initiation into Christ, and for their future actual renovation, in Gods good time, if they live to years of discretion, and enjoy the other ordinary means of grace appointed of God to this end.

The virgin theology vs the chad Godlore

We are deep Godlore enthusiasts.

Why Is Baptism Done with Water?

Because in baptism we are washed and given the Holy Spirit (Heidelberg Q69).

The connection between water and washing is obvious, but between water and the Spirit is perhaps less so.

Scripture introduces the third member of the Trinity in Genesis 1: "the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters."

Likewise in Ezekiel 36, "I will sprinkle clean water on you.... And I will put my Spirit within you." Numeous OT passages (Is. 32:15, Ez. 39:29, Zech. 12:10) speak of God pouring out His Spirit like water. Most notable is Joel 2, repeated at Pentecost.

This connection between water and Spirit is solidified in John 3, "born of water and the Spirit," Titus 3, "the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit," and 1 Cor. 12, "By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body... and were made to drink of one Spirit."

John the Baptist says that Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit. This should not be understood apart from water baptism since in Eph. 4, Paul says, "There is one baptism."

Lastly, water is the closest thing to spirit we can touch, so it intuitively makes sense.

The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement within Western Catholic Christendom, not a revolt against it.

Protestantism was both a declaration against various corruptions of liturgy, life, and doctrine in the Western Church, and a declaration in favor of Biblical and patristic understandings of the Church and Christendom.
James B. Jordan