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share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 7 comments filed under uncategorized tagged as bible christianity faith god jesus by anthony baker february 24 2026 10 49 pm theological differences born again vs salvation thank you for reading this i m trying something a little different here i am speaking into text while at work so i will most certainly need to edit this later if you find anything totally crazy or uncharacteristic please extend a little grace or kindly let me know the last thing i want to do is make a theological assertion that crosses into heresy some of my calvinist and reformed friends and i could rightly call them brethren will likely never read this i wish they would the ones who do rarely comment perhaps for fear of starting a debate let me be clear i do not want to debate argue fight hurt feelings or start a war none of that advances the cause of christ 2 timothy 2 24 25 but i do want to address what appears to me to be an inconsistency in the way many of my calvinist friends present the gospel i doubt they are aware of it if they are that would be more concerning let me explain a little personal background the first 26 years of my life were spent in churches that identified as ifb independent fundamental baptist my father was a preacher and pastor my mother was always the pianist or organist if the church doors were open even for cleaning i was there because of that upbringing i am deeply familiar with the words of jesus to nicodemus ye must be born again john 3 7 those words were printed on tracts painted above pulpits and choirs and preached in countless sermons everyone knew what they meant they were synonymous with being saved jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost luke 19 10 he came as the propitiation for our sins 1 john 2 2 the lamb of god john 1 29 so that we might be reconciled to the father 2 corinthians 5 18 19 it is no wonder that ye must be born again became a well worn phrase among those who could sing all 50 verses of just as i am during an invitation when nicodemus was confused imagining a second physical birth jesus gently corrected him marvel not that i said unto thee ye must be born again john 3 7 the new birth was not a return to the womb but the work of the spirit that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit john 3 6 what born again means in baptist theology whether ifb or now sbc which i am baptists have never implied that being born again involves re entering a physical womb rather we teach that to be saved one must be born again the phrases are interchangeable to be born again is to become a new creature 2 corinthians 5 17 to pass from death unto life john 5 24 to be adopted into the family of god romans 8 15 to be redeemed ephesians 1 7 to be grafted in romans 11 17 to be justified romans 5 1 we are not saved by baptism or by partaking of communion we are not saved by works lest any man should boast ephesians 2 8 9 we are saved by grace through faith in jesus christ and once saved we are secure john 10 28 29 spirit baptism places us into christ 1 corinthians 12 13 and water baptism pictures that reality in short in this theological framework being born again is salvation the calvinist distinction here is where the tension arises in calvinist theology being born again is not synonymous with being saved it is the prerequisite to salvation regeneration precedes faith in that system one does not believe and then receive new life rather one receives new life so that he can believe the terms are not interchangeable yet when listening to a reformed baptist or presbyterian preacher call sinners to repentance to seek and save the lost to compel them to come in luke 14 23 you will often hear the same words ye must be born again but here is my question is that consistent with their theology if a calvinist were to frame his appeal strictly according to his system it might sound something like this if you have been regenerated by god you will believe on the lord jesus christ as evidence that you were chosen before the foundation of the world cf ephesians 1 4 but that is not how the appeal is typically made instead the language used is almost identical to that of the non calvinist evangelist where the difference shows the greatest visible difference between the calvinist and the non calvinist emerges in the appeal to the lost the non calvinist genuinely believes the lost man can respond he urges him to repent acts 17 30 to believe acts 16 31 to receive the free gift of salvation romans 6 23 he speaks to him as one who is spiritually dead but able by grace to respond to the gospel call the calvinist however believes the lost man cannot respond unless first regenerated yet the language in the pulpit often sounds the same my concern is this if regeneration and salvation are not the same thing in one s theology should they be spoken of as though they are a plea for consistency i write this with hope not hostility if a professing calvinist happens to read this perhaps he might consider whether using one set of terms in one setting while defining them differently in another creates confusion at best it may be inconsistent at worst it may blur important theological distinctions we owe the lost clarity we owe our brethren honesty and we owe christ precision in the proclamation of his gospel titus 2 7 8 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 9 comments filed under baptist theology tagged as bible born again calvinist christianity faith god jesus non calvinist regeneration salvation vs born again saved vs regeneration by anthony baker january 25 2026 10 16 pm 15 signs you re not from minnesota i m giving in before i started recording on youtube i did a lot more writing and before i started creating content for video i used to tackle issues of the day on a more regular basis neither one of my youtube channels have a format open to my thoughts on current events and complicated social issues they are geared either to bible study and or preaching or watch related material nonetheless here i can say what i really think here i am free to express my feelings more freely and with transparent honesty so i am now giving in to the call of the commentary starved yes even though nobody has asked for my opinion i m going to give it how else are those hungry for more opinions going to survive the crazies why is it that most of the country can look at what is going on in the state of minnesota and see what those living there can t do they not realize that they are becoming the very definitions of every kind of crazy one can think of have you ever heard of the term walmartian that s not wal martian like a price saving alien from mars no it s a name that has been given to the most stereotypical examples of wal mart shoppers whose water has been tainted for generations you know a walmartian when you see a wal mart shopper that causes you to look away then look back then look away again only to tell your neighbor to look without looking they ain t normal well it seems that we have found the source of the polluted gene pool from which walmartians drink it s minnesota how to tell you are not from minnesota and probably not a crazy early in my life i was little embarrassed of my country hillbilly redneck upbringing in the mountains of tennessee however eventually i grew up and out of the culturally imposed shame now because of minnesota i am thrilled to know where my ancestors copulated but how do i know none of my forefathers and foremothers ever drank of the same polluted water that s obviously quenching the thirst of screeching gender confused protesters out west easy here are 15 things i do not do that prove i nor my america loving ancestors never came from minnesota i do not support relocating pirates to my hometown i have never had the desire nor inclination to change my hair color to pink purple or blue i do not consume illegal substances i do not hire unsavory individuals to tattoo my face with offensive images or language i do not put myself in harm s way by intentionally entering into the danger zone where law enforcement officers are attempting to arrest a known criminal i do not harbor criminals nor do i assist them in fleeing from law enforcement i do not threaten to start a second civil war when i know how the first one turned out i do not enter places of worship claiming it is my right to interfere with the rights of others i do not use my vehicle to block roads i do not use my vehicle as a weapon against law enforcement i do not spit on other people especially those who are allowed by law to use deadly force when threatened i do not get into fights with police i do not hate capitalism and propose to tear down the system i do not have trump derangement syndrome i do not think hillary clinton should have been president i could have kept going but the list would be too long to read in one sitting just know that what i didn t include are automatically covered because i bathe regularly worship a biblical jesus and have job that does not include community organizing so minnesota has been on my mind thankfully i still have enough iq points not deducted by listening to tampon tim and ilhan omar share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 3 comments filed under current events uncategorized tagged as ancestory civil war crazy ice ilhan omar law enforcement minnesota news politics tampon tim trump trump derangement syndrome by anthony baker december 22 2025 8 49 pm if you re not a bot prove you re not this might seem a little strange but since i have been receiving sooooooo many more views over the last several months i would really appreciate if you could either like a post like this one leave a comment or both oh and subscribing to one of my youtube channels would be wonderful too if you want to know a little bit more about being a follower of jesus christ check out the humble word if you would like to follow my watch collecting journey and learn more about watches then go to my channel called the humble horologist thanks merry christmas too share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 1 comment filed under uncategorized by anthony baker december 22 2025 2 25 pm understanding luca our 138 millionth grandparent several days ago an article was published by popular mechanics and posted online by msn com the title was all life on earth comes from one single ancestor and it s so much older than we thought this story is about a lengthy research paper published back in july of 2024 by an international group of scientists here s the citation should you need some reading material before you go to sleep moody e r r álvarez carretero s mahendrarajah t a et al the nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early earth system nat ecol evol 8 1654 1666 2024 https doi org 10 1038 s41559 024 02461 1 look i m gonna be completely honest i could barely understand anything these people in the actual study were saying i sucked in biology and math when it came to scientific experiments the only ones i enjoyed were the ones that involved rapid exothermic reaction and fragmentation but those were not conducted in controlled environments and it s just possible a few laws were broken but that s the nature of the redneck life so upon reading some of the research material and upon viewing several of the very complicated charts it became clear that i am in no position to argue the science these guys could think circles around me and correctly pronounce words i can t even spell in comparison i m a dummy however how is it that my 138 millionth grandparent based on generational averages and 4 2 billion years luca came to be i am not really sure that s explained but like i said earlier i m a dummy probabilistic estimates of metabolic networks from modern life that were present in luca but how is it that luca last universal common ancestor although the first of a long line of my ancestors didn t just pop into existence but popped into a system already in place to not only to support luca s life but for luca to have purpose consider the following excerpt from the scientific paper s abstract italics added our results suggest luca was a prokaryote grade anaerobic acetogen that possessed an early immune system although luca is sometimes perceived as living in isolation we infer luca to have been part of an established ecological system the metabolism of luca would have provided a niche for other microbial community members and hydrogen recycling by atmospheric photochemistry could have supported a modestly productive early ecosystem i don t know about you but something sounds a little strange maybe it s the dummy in me thinking out loud didn t the popular mechanics tell us that all life on earth comes from one common ancestor then what am i to make of an established ecological system i mean honestly how did this system come to be how long did it take to get established and how did the community members get by without luca i m beginning to wonder if susan vega is somewhere behind this reference too vague well one thing s for sure and it s not that luca got a black eye by being clumsy see earlier vague reference somebody needs to do in investigation to find out where luca s community went if all life on earth came from our 138 millionth ancestor i first grandparent might have been the very first serial killer but don t listen to me i don t know anything it s just i mean you know systems are not random non life can t produce life something can t come from nothing for if it did that nothing would be something and as best i can tell the genesis account of human life my real ancestors does describe a first ancestor entering an already established ecosystem interesting eh just thought i d share have a blessed day share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window 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