Campbellism Examined and Re-Examinei [I.e. Re-Examined]

Jeremiah Bell Jeter

General Books LLC

2012

104 páginas

3h 28m

ISBN-13: 9781151049551

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... The noun, eirtarpo is used but once, (Acts 15: 3) and is properly rendered conversion. That these terms denote a moral renovation--the turning of a man, soul and body, to God--the evidence seems complete. "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." "A great number believed and turned unto the Lord." "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death," &c. That the word in these passages denotes, not the act of immersion, but a hearty turning from sin to God, or from error to rectitude, the intelligent reader needs no proof. And what the term means in these texts, it uniformly means in the places where it refers to man's moral change. Yet, read what Mr. Campbell pens in the face of these truths. "Conversion is on all sides, understood to be a turning to God." Very well!... "Here it is worthy of notice, that the apostles, in all their speeches and replies to interrogatories, never commanded an inquirer to pray, read, or sing, as preliminary to his coming, but always commanded and proclaimed immersion as the first duty, or the first tiling to be done, after a belief of testimony." The sincere "belief of testi mony," or faith in Christ, necessarily implies conversion, or " coming to God." It is essential to the act, and insepa-able from it. So an apostle teaches, "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is tcrn of God," and consequently converted. Now, it would have been strange, indeed, if the apostles had commanded an inquirer to " pray, read, or sing, as preliminary" to that which had been already done. If when Mr. Campbell affirms that the apostles proclaimed "immersion as the first duty, after a belief of testimony" he m...