{"id":11036,"date":"2021-06-08T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:34:23","slug":"thoughts-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11036","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2nd trip to the Chinese American Bible Church in Monmouth raised an old question: Should a Catholic convert be rebaptized?<\/strong> Reformed answer<\/a> is no, or else it's a sin<\/a>. Of course, the pastor of this church appears to side with the re-baptizer, but it's not quite clear how much he enforces it as we kept getting interrupted by greeters. But it's good for me to look further into this. I already know of the Bible church denomination<\/a> on the surface<\/a>. Though they joined the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention). They maybe as loose as the Stony Brook SBC church I was with before, where female pastor wasn't a big deal, though this church I have a feeling that they would not permit female pastors. Of course, lots of this is debunked from the fact that infant baptism is valid. However, there's also a question of why Roman Catholic's baptism is valid and Mormon's baptism is not, according to the trinitarian formula of the Nicene tradition<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan is for us to attend both churches<\/strong>, the Grace PCA (for doctrinal reason) and this Chinese church (I've always taken Chinese church very seriously, if they are at least Gospel-centered). I guess we're falling out from the Westfield OPC church since after talking to a few folks that there seems to be a lack of caring or more importantly, a zeal to deal with doctrinal discussion. I would still visit, because I can see they are trying to be Gospel centered, which is a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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