2. The actual embodiment of revelation in history The process of revelation is not only concomitant with history, but it becomes incarnate in history.

The facts of history themselves acquire a revealing significance. The crucifixion and resurrection of Christ are examples of this. We must place act-revelation by the side of word-revelation.

This applies, of course, to the great outstanding acts of redemption. In such cases redemption and revelation coincide.

Two points, however, should be remembered in this connection:

first, that these two-sided acts did not take place primarily for the purpose of revelation; their revelatory character is secondary; primarily they possess a purpose that transcends revelation, having a God-ward reference in their effect, and only in dependence on this a man-ward reference for instruction.

In the second place, such act-revelations are never entirely left to speak for themselves; they are preceded and followed by word revelation.

The usual order is: first word, then the fact, then again the interpretative word. The Old Testament brings the predictive preparatory word, the Gospels record the redemptive revelatory fact, the Epistles supply the subsequent, final interpretation.

We utterly damn the vanity of those that affirm sacraments to be nothing else but naked and bare signs. No, we assuredly believe that by Baptism we are ingrafted in Christ Jesus to be made partakers of his justice, by the which our sins are covered and remitted; and also, that in the Supper, rightly used, Christ Jesus is so joined with us, that he becomes the very nourishment and food of our souls.

-- Scots Confession Ch. 21, John Knox 1560

I share many people's frustration with Trump on his softening position on abortion. However, he did deliver the greatest pro-life victory in a generation, so thank God for Dobbs.

But it's really a symptom of a deeper rot in the Republican base -- I anecdotally know many conservatives who are not strongly (if at all) pro-life. And when the ball was in red states' courts, many voted *for* abortion.

We have work left to implement the complete Christian pro-life position.

The invisible mark [of baptism] is two-fold. The first is the eternal election of God: "The foundation of God stands sure, and has this seal, The Lord knows who are his" (2 Tim. 2:19). And by this the elect of all nations are marked (Rev. chs. 7 and 9). The second is the gift of regeneration, which is nothing else but the imprinting of the image of God in the souls of men. And by this believers are said to be "sealed" (Eph. 1:13; 2 Cor. 1:22). And baptism is a means to see this mark in us because it is the laver of regeneration.

-- William Perkins, Commentary on Galatians

This is definitely NOT financial advice but....

You should prioritize investing in hard assets which have proven to retain value across generations (land, gold, etc.), not Bitcoin. Yes, it's mooning right now and that's fun, and if you want to dabble go ahead.

I am convinced crypto is a techno-futurist pipe dream which the moneychangers have co-opted as a mechanism to divert right wing investment from more effective avenues.

Look at BlackRock: They aren't buying Bitcoin, they're buying houses. Take note. Larry Fink is many things, but one thing he isn't is stupid.

"I don't think my daughter is regenerated because she doesn't show any interest in God or his Son." -- actual quote by an actual Pres-Bapterian pastor

"I don't think my daughter is straight / a girl because she doesn't show any interest in boys / babies."

The same logic in a different context is obviously retarded. We see a) the folly of heart-reading, b) the confusion of maturity and reality, and c) the very real link between ecclesiastical individualism and the gender bender madness.

God, on his part, promises to grant the benefits signified in baptism to all adults who receive that sacrament in the exercise of faith, and to all infants who, when they arrive at maturity, remain faithful to the vows made in their name when they were baptized.

-- Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, 3.20.12

Unpopular opinion: If you do not believe in baptismal regeneration, then you do not believe the Nicene Creed and the declaration, "We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins."

Our baptism must be unto us a storehouse of all comfort in the time of our need. If thou art tempted of the devil, oppose against him your baptism in which God has promised and sealed unto you the pardon of your sins and life everlasting. If thou art troubled with doubtings and weakness of faith, consider that God has given you an earnest and pledge of His loving kindness to you..... Often look upon the will of your heavenly Father sealed and delivered to you in your baptism, and you shall the better be resolved in the middle of all your doubts. If you lie under any cross or calamity, have recourse to your baptism, in which God promised to be your God, and of this promise He will not fail you.

-- William Perkins, Commentary on Galatians

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
— St. Ambrose of Milan

Deus Vult. And yes, it is a far right slogan, because God is with us. Cope harder. And in His name, we will win, Deus Vult.

Calvin the Presuppositionalist -- ICR 1.3.1

That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead....

The believing have, in love, the character of God the Father by Jesus Christ, by whom, if we are not in readiness to die into His passion, His life is not in us.

-- St. Ignatius of Antioch, To the Magnesians

Do the Crusades offend you James White? Do they make you uncomfortable, Doug Wilson?

Good. Christian men willing to die for their faith have always intimidated God's enemies and weakminded lukewarm men. Pray you only fall into the second category.

Hi. I'm your Christian Prince. My father won the 2nd American Civil War, so we made degeneracy illegal.

Get in the crystal now. What's that? Due process? Unconstitutional? Lol. What part of "we won" did you not understand?

Calvin: Monotheism Insufficient -- ICR 1.4.3

It makes little difference, at least in this respect, whether you hold the existence of one God, or a plurality of gods, since, in both cases alike, by departing from the true God, you have nothing left but an execrable idol.

Baptism is given as a pledge of our adoption; for by it we are grafted into the body of Christ, so as to be washed and cleansed by his blood, and then renewed in purity of life by his Holy Spirit. We hold, also, that although we are baptized only once, yet the gain that it symbolizes to us reaches over our whole lives and to our death, so that we have a lasting witness that Jesus Christ will always be our justification and sanctification.

-- French Confession (aka Gallican Confession) Article 35, John Calvin 1559