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*sigh* I already said that I was gathering my thoughts. If you don't want to believe me, that's your problem as well. Why am I wasting my time with this? Because I rather see reconciliation than us biting eachother's heads off.

If my heart says "I'm sorry", can we leave it at that? Apparently not.
 
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LOL! Ok Silver...
 
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D, by no means was I interested in having you leave. If you want to run away from your problems, feel free. But I can assure you, Jesus didn't run away with the problems that others had with Him, He dealt with them head on... in fact, He went all the way to the cross for people who had problems with Him.
 
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She didn't leave to run from anything. She bowed out to get the thread back on topic. If you want to work out your problems with D, follow her lead and take it off my thread.

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From my catechism (I'm sort of writing my own catechism for fun) Chapter 3 Part C


To claim children are innocent is foolish. Such a claim would indicate that they are not in need of Christ.

Such a claim regulates the virgin birth to "God showing off"

Such a claim states that people who don't break commands are sinless.

Sinful from birth.
 
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Thank you for your insight, Luther.

If I may say, to assume that children are innocent and not sinful is, as can be observed, borderline Pelagianism... and I think that was declared a heresy almost 1600 years ago...
 
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innocent
adj.
  1. Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless: an innocent child.
    1. Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless: was innocent of all charges.
    2. Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
    1. Not dangerous or harmful; innocuous: an innocent prank.
    2. Candid; straightforward: a child's innocent stare.
    1. Not experienced or worldly; naive.
    2. Betraying or suggesting no deception or guile; artless.
    1. Not exposed to or familiar with something specified; ignorant: American tourists wholly innocent of French.
    2. Unaware: She remained innocent of the complications she had caused.
  2. Lacking, deprived, or devoid of something: a novel innocent of literary merit.
 
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Purity> Probably. . . It seems to be part of baptist, pentacostal and charasmatic theolgy. Its popular in the states but IMO theologically lacking.

It dates back to the anabaptists. Read through my book of concord and they don't have much nice to say about the anabaptists.
 
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Umm.. D, I think that would be moving away from the original intent of the OP. What was meaning when it was mentioned that children are innocent was not that they weren't experienced, but that they were not sinful (hence the analogy with Adam and Eve before the Fall). If we are to suddenly change the definition of innocent to mean
Not experienced or worldly; naive" We would be committing a Straw Man fallacy, or maybe even the fallacy of equivocation. Don't want to be doing that now, would we? Let me give you another example of a Straw Man Fallacy from a book that I have read...

"The following is a letter to the Globe and Mail, September 6, 2005, commenting on the aftermath of hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans and its surrounding areas:

"Regarding your Quote of the Day for Sept. 2, 'Philosophers tried to imagine what a '''state of nature''' looked like - we're now seeing it inside the United States and it's really brutal.' I am hard pressed to find anything remotely natural about thousands of dispossessed people living in a football stadium. It would seem that if a healthy state of nature had been allowed to exist - wetlands and barrier islands left undeveloped and in their natural state - the effects of hurricane Katrina would have been considerably less brutal." [Christopher W. Tindale, Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 38.]

That's a fallacy because what Philosophers mean by "state of nature" is not what the author of this letter to the editor means. He is diverting the attention from the real meaning of "state of nature" as meant by philosophers, thus committing a Straw Man.

Don't divert the attention from what the real meaning of innocent actually was.
 
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I have seen it in some baptist circles, definitely pentecostal and charismatic ones. But I'm a Reformed Baptist, so it's a little different for us

Interesting video... I couldn't exactly understand waht they were saying. Umm... what was the whole bit about calvinists though?
 
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The whole thing is a scene from a musical about Martin Luther. (Its a comedy musical)

This scene is from what is probably the end but I havn't seen the whole thing. The Calvinists and the Anabaptists are trying to get Martin Luther to endorse their theological positions.

Of course the thing is a comedy, historically based but not super-realistic or intended to be. I'm pretty sure the Calvinists never sent "John Calvin's pre-destination dancers"

The other woman that is with Luther from the beginning of the scene is his fiance (at the time in the musical) Katrine Von Bora

In real life I belive Luther met with Calvin to try to work out a united front against the papacy. But they ended up disagreeing about pre-destination and the real physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist. With the Anabaptists Luther wasn't so nice, I'm pretty sure he was so disgusted by their theology he refused to meet with them.
 
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