Saturday, July 23, 2005
Aye, Man!
Rebecca is posting on the great creeds and confessions of the faith throughout July. On Thursday, she posted about the "Scots Confession." Full info here. She posts some of her favorite sections, so I am going to post mine:
Chapter 2 Original SinMuch as the idea of penal substitution is dying, so is the concept of original sin (they're a package, really) but leave it to good old John Knox to get it right.
By this transgression, generally known as original sin, the image of God was utterly defaced in man, and he and his children became by nature hostile to God, slaves to Satan, and servants to sin. And thus everlasting death has had, and shall have, power and dominion over all who have not been, are not, or shall not be born from above. This rebirth is wrought by the power of the Holy Ghost creating in the hearts of God's chosen ones an assured faith in the promise of God revealed to us in his Word; by this faith we grasp Christ Jesus with the graces and blessings promised in him.
