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

Collect for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost

Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always precede and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Jesus told the thief on the cross: “today you will be with me in paradise,” (Lk. 23:43). Some find this difficult to square with the assertion from the Apostle’s Creed, “he descended into Hell.” This has been a source of confusion for many Christians, and this post will attempt to explain how best to understand it

https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/he-descended-into-hell-or-did-he

Interesting stats. Who knew the charismatic crazies would be the most sane political voice in America LOL!

Happy Columbus Day! ✝️

The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel
 
The Heliand is a gospel harmony paraphrased as an epic poem in Old Saxon, written circa 830 A.D. Likely commissioned by the Carolingian emperor Louis I of a poet at the Fulda monastery, it was an attempt to teach the Saxons, who were recently forcibly converted to Christianity. The epic presents Christ as “Jesus of Nazarethburg” – a good king with 12 loyal retainers.
 
The Pharisees are presented as plotting warriors and earls, and the scenery is changed; the shepherds walk through the woods to find Jesus, who taught in meadows saying, “Nor does a man gather figs from a hawthorn tree.”
 
But aside from changing the setting, the epic keeps the basic message intact and doesn’t shy away from Jesus’s teaching about turning the other cheek, a message at odds with the Germanic warrior culture.
 
It was apparently successful, as the Germanic people adopted the faith they were baptized into. Luther was evidently familiar with the Heliand as he appealed to it as an argument for translating the Scriptures into the common tongue.