Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-03-04
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

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Editor News:
supposs my honored and respected
| antagonist. Mr.. G. W. White, is &
BsUtist and | hope be will pardon mt
for saving l 10 not know why the
Bautists bautize at all. The Baptists
NAV have a reason, but 80 far have
never beard them express it They
certainly do not baptize solely and fol
the express purpose of atoning for a
mans actual transgl essions. They
preach anu teach repentance for such
sins, I believe. What is their reason
for baptizing people at all Do they
recognize the fact of an original sin,
an inbred and Adamic sin, that no
Individual can repent of If they rec
ognize original sin, by what method
do they propose to appease God con-
earning this sin" Evidently sancti
fication does not satisfy. Yet a man
must be saved from it. St Paul
taught the doctrine of original siu,
Wherefore as by one man sin entered
into the world, and by sin death, and
so death passed upon all men in whom
all have sinneu.' Rom 5:12. God
does not impute to us the personal sin
of another.
Here mad better give reason why
GOD holds us accountable to Him for
the Adamic sin, the effect of this sin
that is the deprivation, the rejection
as it we're, of original justice which
Adam wilfully Incurred as head of the
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we also as united to Adam, have in
Cured. In this no vestage of injustice
appears. Men do not lose anything
which their nature requires. and, re-
member, sanctifying grace Is God's
free gift, which He can give or take
away on conditions laid 10 n by Him
self alone. Though we are all today
through Adams Fin, born "chiluren
of wrath" Eph. 2:3, God in His in
finite love, gives everyone ample op-
portunity of regaining the grace His
only Son died on the cross to merit
Therefore, brother, baptism is neces-
sary to salvation. In John 3:5 is a
positive declaration no truth-loving
christian can or will deny. No man
is baptized because he has repented Of
his actual sins. They are baptized be-
cause of original sin. 1t Is baptis
NAL regeneration. a sacrament that
cleanses from original sin For this
cause, my dear brother, little children
are baptized and no other. The child
rem are adopted into the family of God
by this holy and sacred sacrament
which so many repudiate and declare
non essential. You say they cannot
repent and believe. No, and neither
can you repent except for your OWE
sins and transgressions, 80 there is no
repeutauce required from the child
for thu Adamic sin Understand | am
no Calvinist. Baptism is something
more than an entrance into the church
of God. The baptism tnat Christ com,
manded is not something to be ACCEPT
cd or rejected at will, but i. an ab,ol
ute necessity of salvation. / shall say
nothing about the moue, there is plen-
ty of proof on the subject. But to the
infant by the very fact of original
sin every mau because of Adams sin
Is born into the world deprived of
Gods grace and of the rig1t of en-
rance into heaven. We are by nature
the CHILDREN of wrath, Eph 2:3,
wherefore as by one man sin entered
INTO this world, and by sin death, and
10 death pa sed upon all men for all |
nave sinned
Jesus Christ certainly teaches the
necessity of every individual being |
,leanssd from this sin and freed from |
his wrath by baptismal regeneration.
Unless a person is born of water and
# the spirit he cannot enter the king
ION of heaven Does this include
children Are they children of wrath
Brother, take the Greek word, cts"
md get its meaning The baptizing
# children is a tradition and handed
Iown from the apostles and it is gen
rally understood that they are bap-
izei because of original sin. If it
vas not for that their baptism would
,e superfuous and worthless. We are
III CHILDREN of wrath, but we must
,ecome as little children if we ever
xpect to get to heaven. Are you bap
lied, my brother, for the sins you We
epented of, and been forgiven, or is
{ for the Adamic sin, which Bap-
ism, brother, is not a mockery. A
Jain, why do you baptize at all and
or what purpose? Why do you ad-
minister the ritter
Some declare inbred sin can be
often rid of by sanctiticatiohn Oh,
20, the Bible doPs not teach any such
egarning sanctification. Christ him
elf gave the remedy in his converse
ion with Nicodemus, "Ye must be
orn again" A positive declaration,
nd tells him exactly by what process
9 must enter the kingdomof God. For
dults it requires more than baptism.
{ requires faith ana repentance. but
70 must understand that repentance Is
ecessary to the sacrament for adults.
nd about one Of the hardest things
10 have to do, one that millions seek
} dodge, nevertheless they can't do it
hrist says: eye must bs born a
ain " That cuts men to the very
cart They don't like to confess
leir sins. Oh. no, they dodge that
Ike they do infant baptism There
so much connected with baptism
rat can't enter Unto all of it in one {
tier Do You preach and teach bap-
SIN for personal or actual sins, or do l
ou teach it for original sinr If not $
n original sin, how are people to get 1
zee from it2 !
l had as we'll say here that l do not
9lieve the horrible doctrine of total |
epravity God, sir, is not the.autbor '
evil, for man was made in the {
mage of God and was free to choose
e good. No one cares to follow Lu- I
Ter and Calvin in this day, for they
Innot say of good works they are sin Q