robt.k.fall
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If you restricted your comment to KJVOism and other matters, I would be writing this. However, you used the IFB in your thread title.
Yes, the description "Independent Fundamental Baptist" is less than 100 years old. The concept it refers to is not. Baptist churches by they very nature are Independent and autonomous. Please read your Hiscox and Wayland on this point. Regarding "Fundamental", my home church, Hamilton Square Baptist of San Francisco, California, was organized in 1881. That's a good 20 years before "The Fundamentals" was published. Further. 1881 was over 40 years (a generation) before the Modernist controversy came to a boiling point in the Northern Baptist Convention. Doctrinally, HSBC stands where it stood ("we hold to the commonly held doctrines of the Regular Baptist churches") in 1881.
Yes, the description "Independent Fundamental Baptist" is less than 100 years old. The concept it refers to is not. Baptist churches by they very nature are Independent and autonomous. Please read your Hiscox and Wayland on this point. Regarding "Fundamental", my home church, Hamilton Square Baptist of San Francisco, California, was organized in 1881. That's a good 20 years before "The Fundamentals" was published. Further. 1881 was over 40 years (a generation) before the Modernist controversy came to a boiling point in the Northern Baptist Convention. Doctrinally, HSBC stands where it stood ("we hold to the commonly held doctrines of the Regular Baptist churches") in 1881.
Shouldn't there be some humility if your way of thinking is no more than a century old?
Like KJV onlyism- this is a new doctrine. The church never believed this for 1900 years!!! But YOU GUYS are right about it! Is that not arrogance?
Or this hodge podge of doctrine ecclectically chosen from Arminianism and Calvinism- which believes in Substitutionary Atonement which is picked from Calvinism AND Unlimited Atonement which is picked from Arminianism at the same time. Which believes in eternal security (Calvinism) AND resistable grace (Arminianism)- doctrines that simply do not go together.
But new movements make up this NEW set of doctrines and ACT LIKE JESUS OUGHT TO BE VERY THANKFUL THAT THIS MOVEMENT CAME AROUND WHEN IT DID! Because without it the church would have continued in darkness. But these NEW movements have the truth- thank heavens!