Baccalaureate

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English

Etymology

New Latin baccalaureatus, from Late Latin baccalaureus a bachelor of arts, from baccalarius, but as if frrom Latin bacca lauri bayberry, from the practice of the bachelor's wearing a garland of bayberries. See Bachelor.

Noun

baccalaureate

1. The degree of bachelor of arts the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.
2. (United States) A baccalaureate sermon.

Adjective

baccalaureate

1. Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.

Ethan Metsger wrote:
> Gary McNees wrote:
>
>
>>Why o why do people like so much to contradict Scripture?
>>
>>Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
>>your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give
>>good things to them that ask him?
>>
>>Gary
>
>
> Have you read, "The plowing of the wicked is sin?" or "The sacrifice of the
> wicked is an abomination?" Both of these are, in principle, good works; the
> former feeds the family (fathers give their children bread) and the latter
> constitutes worship. But both are decried as _evil_.

Argue with Christ, not me. He said it, not me.

> Gary, the point that is made in Scripture is that good deeds aren't good
> unless the person who does them is regenerate.

Where does it say that even the deeds of the regenerate are good?
I agree with Augustine that even our best deeds are filled with sin,
and only acceptable because God sees them through Christ.

Good is used in different ways in Scripture. As is righteous, and
just. (Just ask Matthew J.)

> This is why our righteousness
> is as filthy rags.

I agree, and this seems to contradict what you just said above,
e.g., good deeds aren't good unless the person who does them is regenerate.

> It is not that we don't do things that are in principle
> good--and I don't think any Calvinist you ever talk to would say
> otherwise--but the simple fact that we are the ones who do them.

Well, there are probably some. :)

> You seem to fixate on the work / faith instead of the actor, when it is the
> latter that counts, not the former.

Sorry, I didn't mean to fixate on either.

What or rather WHO we should fixate on is Christ. I agree with Calvin
as to the essence of saving faith, that it is believing that God
is propitious toward us because of What Christ has done. (I paraphrase.)
He made ASSURANCE of salvation central to his definition of saving
faith. This assertion was very soon abandoned and denied by his followers.


> To avoid this, you must demonstrate from Scripture that every man has been
> "fixed" in this regard, so that his flesh no longer poses the barrier that it
> apparently did when such proverbs were written--and suddenly you are left
> looking at works-based righteousness, _whether you count faith as a work or not_.

Don't agree. There was a momentous change effected by Christ on the
Cross. John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw
all men unto me. John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the
world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

I don't need to justify what God has specifically stated. The Calvinist
needs to justify his mangling of plain scripture to maintain his
heretical system of doctrine. And he cannot do so.


I maintain that the REASON that so many books are required to be
written by Calvinists is because such are necessary to obviate the word
of God.


It takes a lot of words to make one believe the very OPPOSITE
of what Scripture states.

Gary

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