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    atpollard replied to the thread What makes you a Baptist?.
    You may be correct, but the number of churches shrinking rather than growing suggests I may have a valid observation: people come, are...
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    atpollard replied to the thread What makes you a Baptist?.
    "an elder" = one among several "monarchical pastor" = the ONLY elder (a council of 1) Got Questions: Proverbs 15:22 says, “Without...
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    atpollard replied to the thread What makes you a Baptist?.
    I will have to let Martin answer for Martin (I already stated what I thought his objection was to). I am qualified to answer for ME (no...
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    atpollard replied to the thread What makes you a Baptist?.
    I don't think so. Having been in more than a few churches and been under more than a few church Government Structures, Martin seems to...
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    atpollard replied to the thread What makes you a Baptist?.
    I took an online test that told me I was a Baptist. ;) ... seriously! [From Atheism] After attending the RCC, Church of God (Anderson...
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    atpollard replied to the thread Eschatology.
    If you had been standing on the Road to Damascus as Saul was being saved ... what would you have seen? A flash and thunder? What would...
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    It should be comparable to “Joining a gang” … a lifetime commitment to a “family” … “blood in, blood out” … the prospective member...
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    atpollard replied to the thread Eschatology.
    Was Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus a miracle? Were the births of Samuel, Isaac and John the Baptist miracles? Why is THEN...
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    atpollard replied to the thread Eschatology.
    1979: When He saved me [just one data point that I am certain of]. 2005: When my wife with polycystic ovaries that the Mayo Clinic...
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    That's the best post on this thread. That's exactly what happened to a lot of us who got a little caught up in the drift towards "easy...
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    Just a thought, but if someone “doubts their salvation”, should they at least entertain the possibility that “they are not saved” and...
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    atpollard reacted to Charlie24's post in the thread Where Did Our Faith Come From? with Like Like.
    @atpollard Paul said, "it is with the heart that man believes unto righteousness..." Man can hear the Gospel all the day long, but if...
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    atpollard replied to the thread Where Did Our Faith Come From?.
    We Particular Baptists posit that God is the one who empowers individuals to hear with the heart: “A woman named Lydia was listening...
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    atpollard reacted to Charlie24's post in the thread Where Did Our Faith Come From? with Like Like.
    That's the difference in hearing with the ear and hearing with the heart. Those "atheists and heretics" have heard with the ears but...
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    atpollard replied to the thread Where Did Our Faith Come From?.
    No, I don’t think that “hearing” the word of God is enough. There are lots of atheists and heretics that can quote scripture better...
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