Recent content by JD731

I have proven to myself over the years that the word of God is a supernatural book in all respects, including the words the supernatural God chose and the number of times he chose to use them. I also have found that a numerical structure exists through words and not just numbers. Some are easy...

There is no such thing, IMO, as a Baptist Arminian and there is no such thing as a Baptist Calvinist. In reality one is either a Baptist or an Arminian or a Calvinist. These are totally different belief systems and they all define the person of God and his work of salvation in completely...

I am reading this command to the apostles in the context that Matthew puts it, which is one week after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and it is in Galilee, called in some passages, "Galilee of the nations." Mt 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them (the Mary's V1), Be not afraid: go tell my brethren...

As always, the answer is to be found in the scriptures. It is "no." 1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. The apostle to the gentiles, Paul, did not mention foot washing as an ordinance in his 13 letters to...

Yeah, all us Baptists say amen. I am just wondering if, given the emphasis that Matthew puts on the kingdom in his book, if this is to be the baptismal formula in the future context of the gospel of the kingdom. At this point I do not have enough light to be sure. Mt 24:14 And this gospel of...

What is the issue and what does it matter to us Baptists here? I looked at a couple articles on line to see what anti trinitarian people thinks about Mt 28:19 but I did not find anything suggesting that Baptists of any stripe were confused about the trinitarian nature of God.

It has been my experience that the opposite is true. Nearly every Calvinist whose testimony I have heard or read has said they were a so called Armenian before they saw the light of Calvinism and converted to it. What is your testimony?

Has someone taught it is wrong to do that?

I would take the position that we must view this in a collective sense, not an individual sense. This is the body of Christ and it is he in whom we dwell, that is, in his body. It is he who is being spiritually circumcised here. Read it carefully here. We as a collective make up the members of...

I have no light on that passage except to say it must be an apostolic commission only pertaining to the 12 and 70 that were chosen by Jesus to preach his gospel to the Jews and may be in some way connected to the "gospel of the kingdom." I do not have any doubt that Jesus said it to them and...

I am a Baptist Christian and therefore trinitarian in every way and consider anti - trinitarians to be ignorant and unsaved but what is their logic and reasoning for denying the doctrine based on Mt 28:19? They are not likely to show up on a Baptist only forum to explain themselves.

Reading the comments here I think the biblical definition of salvation differs from one poster to the next and it causes confusion because it is misunderstood. I would say that being "saved" is a New Testament doctrine and it is specifically by believing what God the Father of Jesus Christ says...

If the Spirit of God had not dwelled in the mortal body of Christ he would not have been God. But God cannot die, so the Spirit (who is life BTW, Ro 8:10) had to depart the body of Christ for his physical death to occur. In both cases it was a death, a departure, a separation. First he suffered...

THE GENTILE CHURCH IS THE GRACE OF GOD The gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News that he has, through his death., burial, and resurrection, reconciled God to all men having taken away sin, the separator. The gospel of God is that God the Judge is so reconciled to all men through Christ that...

I cannot say the truth any better than this; Read it carefully and understand that honesty demands we all follow the logic. Rom 11:5 Even so then at this present time (58AD) also there is a remnant (of believing Israelites) according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then is it no...