134。钟马田：对比天主教与路德宗在洗礼与重生之关系上的异同

翻译：小草

罗马天主教会教导重生是唯独通过洗礼的方式产生和完成的。你重生之前必须接受洗礼。我不打算后面来讲，就在此讲清楚。罗马天主教说，在洗礼中我们的罪被赦免，我们的道德性被改变和更新。我们被告知，洗礼把我们从原罪的内在权势和玷污中释放出来。你还记得，因为亚当的堕落以及我们与他的连接，结果是我们都被玷污，罪的权势已进入我们里面。现在，罗马天主教说，当一个孩子受洗，他就从原罪的内在权势和玷污中被释放出来。所有一切从亚当继承来的都被洗去，涂抹，不仅如此，通过洗礼，我们成为神的儿女和后嗣。

英国公教的高教派（AngloCatholics）也教导洗礼的重生。尽管它可能看起来奇怪，路德宗也是这么教导的。路德从来没有完全摆脱了这一观点，他的追随者也一样。路德宗和罗马天主教的观点有一点区别。天主教说，没有洗礼就不能重生；路德宗说，没有洗礼可以重生，但洗礼是重生的通常和正常的方式。

我们不是这么教导的。我们说，重生不是通过洗礼，圣经的使徒行传里有丰富的经文证明，受洗的人是那些有证据证明已经重生的人。事实上，他们受洗是因为他们已经重生。洗礼作为一个标志和印记被赋予那些已经有新生命证据的人。

—- 原文摘自钟马田牧师《有效的恩召和重生》

The Roman Catholic Church teaches that regeneration is produced and accomplished through the instrumentality of baptism, and only through baptism. You must be baptised before you can be regenerate. I do not want to anticipate a later lecture, but let us be clear at this point. In baptism, Roman Catholics teach that our sins are forgiven and that our moral nature is changed and renewed within us. We are told that baptism delivers us from the inherent power and defilement of original sin. You remember that, as the result of the fall of Adam and our connection with him, we are all defiled, and the power of sin has entered in upon us. Now Roman Catholics teach that when a child is baptised, it is delivered from the inherent power and pollution of original sin. All that it has inherited from Adam is washed away, blotted out, and not only that, by baptism we are made children and heirs of God.

The AngloCatholics also teach baptismal regeneration. And, strange though it may seem, the same is true of the Lutherans. Luther never quite got rid of this view, and neither have his followers. There is one difference between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic views. The Catholics say that you cannot be regenerate without baptism; the Lutherans say that you can but that the usual, normal manner is by means of baptism. Well, we do not teach that. We say that regeneration is not by baptism, that there is abundant scriptural evidence in the book of Acts alone to prove that the people who were baptised were those who gave evidence that they were already born again. Indeed, they were baptised because they had been born again. It was given as a sign and a seal to them because they had produced evidence of the new birth.

Excerpt From

Effectual Calling and Regeneration

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

网址：https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/effectualregeneration.html

Excerpt From book：《Great Doctrines of the Bible (Three Volumes in One): God the Father, God the Son; God the Holy Spirit; The Church and the Last Things 》By Martyn Lloyd-Jones