CCS SYSTHEO

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CCS SYSTHEO

• The Church
• Baptism and the Lords Supper

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• Baptism

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Baptism Views

• Means of Grace
• Covenant Sign or Seal
• Picture of Salvation

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Also categorized . . .

• PedoBaptism Baptizing Children into Church

• CredoBaptism Baptizing believers as the Church

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Baptism as a Means of Grace

• PedoBaptists
• Considered a sacrament, rather than an ordinance
• Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran
• Either Gods doing through the Church authority
  or Gods doing more nebulous but mystical in
  sacrament Gods doing through procedure
• Generally approached from the biblical texts
  regarding entire households being baptized (Acts
  11, 16 18)

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Baptism as Sign Seal of the Covenant

• PedoBaptists
• Considered a sign, but a calling to the
  faithfulness to the Covenant
• It is a promise of grace, but only through
  obedience to the Covenant yet, with overlap to
  sacramentalists views
• Much like the sign of circumcision for the
  covenant in OT, so is baptism in NT
• Approaches to passages like Col. 211-12, as well
  as household passages again in Acts to support.

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Baptism as a picture of Salvation

• CredoBaptists
• Not a sacrament, but an ordinance
• Has no merit whatsoever, but is an act of
  obedience, confession and experience
• Only for those who have exercised faith in the
  Gospel unto salvation and therefore happens after
  
• Matthew 2819-20 and Ethiopian Eunuch was
  baptized after belief also thief on Cross
  promised Paradise with no baptism not required.

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A couple notes on mode

• Immersion
• Baptize is a transliterated word from the Greek,
  baptizo
• It is the meaning of the word baptizo in Greek
  to dip or immerse
• See even mundane uses John 1326 (dipped)
• Pouring (Affusion)
• Pouring water over someone is related to the
  Pouring out of the Spirit.
• Considered an option in the early Church (See
  next Slide)
• Sprinkling (Aspersion)

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And concerning baptism, thus baptize ye Having
first said all these things, baptize into the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit, in living water. But if thou have
not living water, baptize into other water and
if thou canst not in cold, in warm. But if thou
have not either, pour out water thrice upon the
head into the name of Father and Son and Holy
Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer
fast, and the baptized, and whatever others can
but thou shalt order the baptized to fast one or
two days before.

• -Didache ch. 7, from
• Ante-Nicene Fathers

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A couple notes on mode

• Immersion
• Baptize is a transliterated word from the Greek,
  baptizo
• It is the meaning of the word baptizo in Greek
  to dip or immerse
• See even mundane uses John 1326 (dipped)
• Pouring (Affusion)
• Pouring water over someone is related to the
  Pouring out of the Spirit.
• Considered an option in the early Church (See
  next Slide)
• Sprinkling (Aspersion)
• Often related to Ezekiel 3625
• 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
  shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and
  from all your idols I will cleanse you.

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To Clear things up . . .

• Jesus saves and only Jesus. Acts 411-12
• How that salvation is applied is in question
• The flow of salvific history/theology is also in
  play
• The Bible must be the final authority

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• The Lords Supper

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Lords Supper Views

• Transubstantiation
• Consubstantiation
• Commemoration

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Other Categories

• Roman Catholic (Transubstantiation)
• Lutheran (Consubstantiation)
• Reformed (Sacramental)
• Zwinglian (Commemoration)

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Roman Catholicism

• transubstantiation. A term in Roman Catholic
  theology meaning essential change, the belief
  that by the power of God at the consecration in
  the Mass, the bread and wine change substance
  into the actual substance of Jesus body and
  blood, even though they seem to retain their
  natural characteristics.

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Lutheranism

• consubstantiation. Martin Luther taught that the
  body and blood of the Lord is present in, with
  and under the actual bread and wine.

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Commemoration

• Commemorialism. Originating with Ulrich Zwingli,
  a view of the Lords Supper that sees the rite as
  symbolic, as representing (or memorializing)
  Christs self-giving on the cross (together with
  his last supper with the disciples).
  Commemorialists believe that Christs presence is
  not localized in the communion elements but
  within the gathered community of believers.
  Memorialists consider the word is in Christs
  words, This is my body. . . . This is my blood
  (Mk 1422, 24) to be figurative, so that it means
  signifies or represents. Hence by this phrase
  Jesus was not referring literally to his physical
  body and blood but was indicating that the
  physical elements are symbols of his life that
  would be given for them.

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The Lords Supper is a reminder of the death of
Christ and of its sacrificial character in our
behalf, a symbol of our vital connection with the
Lord, and a testimony to His second coming.
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A Focused and Sobering Passage

• 1 Corinthians 1123-32

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And can it be that I should gain an interest in
the Savior's blood! Died he for me? who caused
his pain! For me? who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be that thou, my God,
shouldst die for me? Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
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CCS SYSTHEO

• The Church
• Baptism and the Lords Supper