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I'm a Primitive Baptist and I may not agree with many brethren on here but I interact with many beliefs, been on here so long how could I not... Is one a brother in Christ, if he has a different belief than mine and goes to a different church?... Are we all not Children Of God?... In the natural world if a brother has problems with a brother, there is usually sibling rivalry but they are still brothers... In blood... And even though Baptist disagree with other Baptist we are still brothers by blood... The blood of the Lamb... Those others have a different belief than mine, I'm Baptist proud of who I am, and those who are also Baptist should be proud of who they are!... Very few are going to change anyone's mind... An this Old Timer that has been here longer than most remembers Jesus's words from the sermon on the mount... And we should too!... Brother Glen

Matthew 5: 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

 

Are you a publican or a Republican?... Now you can vote!... Brother Glen

 

I know you were just pulling his chain!... Sometimes his chain needs to be pulled, to keep him in line... We don't need a Mod with a big head... You know I love you Jon! (In brotherly way that is)... Brother Glen

 

Well I'm not going to get into this battle, it is what it is... And this is what I call my preacherism I've been collecting them over the years as far as the Substitution Theory goes... Here it is in its simplicity... Three in one and one in three and the one in the middle died for me!... You can use it if you want!... Brother Glen

 

I would respectfully disagree about the “Theology” (although I cannot speak to church membership in a congregation claiming ‘Reformed Baptist’ as a title). I came from Atheism through Wesleyan preachers and teachers (Church of God of Anderson, Indiana) and my personal efforts to reconcile their teaching with my Bible reading and salvation experience led me to my beliefs. It was one of those online quizzes that told me my beliefs were a 100% match to something called “Reformed Baptist”, so I attended a local Southern Baptist church to study the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message and check this whole “Baptist” thing out first hand.

I arrived at 4 of the 5 points of TULIP reading the Bible under Wesleyan instruction … WCF was not required. I only later learned that it had a name (Calvinism). TRUTH is TRUTH, irrespective of the source.

 

About 15 years ago the Baptist church I went to got into the Calvinist wars as often happens. I was working at a cancer center at a hospital and we had a Presbyterian chaplain who would always show up whenever a sales rep would provide a lunch for the staff. Since I understood very little of what was happening at church I used the opportunity to pick his brain on Calvinism since at least I knew those Presby's were Calvinists. After listening for a while he says "Man, I envy you guys". I was a little surprised and asked why. He said "I just wish I could get my people to be excited about something, anything". I just said, "Well, we're Baptists and we're always in an uproar about something". And I guess that's true. I guess Reformed Baptists would be Presbyterians that dunk everybody and are easily excitable.

 

Yes. A lot of Reformed folks do not accept the idea of there being any such thing as "Reformed Baptists". I think it's pretty common nowadays for people to sort of pick out beliefs in a cafeteria style. A lot of folks in Reformed Baptist churches in the pews do not believe in limited atonement for example. Get on the internet and look at the "What We Believe" statements and most are very vague on that - leaving room for both on purpose. And it's not uncommon in Reformed Baptist churches to have cessationists and people waiting for the gifts to break out!