Recent content by David Lamb

Surely Calvinists and Arminians believe in the Trinity. John Wesley, who was certainly not a Calvinist, believed that the Trinity s the heart of all vital religion, for example. A non-Calvinistic Baptist church near me has this in its statement of faith: "As a church we believe in… The one...

Thanks. The only Matlock I know of is a town of that name in Derbyshire (UK). I have never watched a TV programme called Matlock, and have no idea what it is about.

Yes, I did realise that you were using waiters as an example of taking orders, but you still wrote that angels take our orders.

So from that, it seems I wasn't mistaken after all. The fact that angels serve Christians does not make them "cosmic waiters", ready to take orders from us.

Sorry, I seem to have misunderstood. I really thought you were saying that angels take our orders. It seems you meant that waiters do that, so I humboly apologise

I was replying to you, not Anthony. Anthony had written: You replied: "Yes it does. “ May I take or orders “ is the first thing they say." Therefore I replied that nowhere in Scripture do we read that we are to give orders to angels.

I agree about the word "Trinity." However, the teaching or doctrine embodied in the word "Trinity" certainly is in Scripture. The idea that human beings should give orders to angels is not (as far as I know) found anywhere in the Bible. Yes, I do believe that angels are sent forth by God to...

Where, in the Bible, do we read of any angel appearing to somebody, and opening what they say with words like, "May I take your orders?" Just a few examples, in which I have highlighted the angel's first words: (Luk 1:11-13 NKJV) Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the...

I am certain Martin did not mean that someone can be born again and then reject the gospel.

I think we need to be careful here, because elsewhere in the psalms we read: (Psa 148:7-10 NKJV) Praise the LORD from the earth, You great sea creatures and all the depths; Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars...

Thanks. I thought that what you wrote before, "New Zealand Baptist churches also part of the UK Baptist union." didn't seem correct.

I didn't mention any UK Baptist union. I linked to a website of a group called "United Baptists", but that is in the United States. Their site says: " "The United Baptists are predominately small groups of churches and associations found largely in the southern U.S. " Here in the UK there is...

Steve Chalke was the person who described the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement as "cosmic child abuse." Eleonore Stump has similar views. In her book Atonement, she re-examines Christ’s sacrifice, moving away from harsh retributive models of punishment. Instead, she emphasizes...

My prayers assured, Tony. My dear wife Jean went to glory in February this year. Although I do of course miss her very much, she had become so ill with multiple sclerosis (MS) that towards the end, she was totally bedridden and unable to do anything for herself, so it was a merciful release...

The impression I have, not only from the site I linked to, is that the early General Baptists almost died out because of the f8all into Unitarianism. Have we got any history buffs here who know for certain?