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Have you ever noticed the diversity of TRANSLATIONS of the verses in Isaiah 53? Such things are critically important to people like me that know NOTHING significant of Greek or Hebrew grammar and must trust the translations for subtlety of meaning (thus we look to many translations for critical...

Just for the record, it was more of a commentary on the entire exchange ... [paraphrasing the arguments behind your pages of repeated exchanges] ... BF: We are 100% saved before believing because 'God gives faith as a gift'. ... SH: The Holy Spirit sits quietly on the sidelines until we are...

30 Common Logical Fallacies–A Study Starter 11.False Dilemma Also sometimes referred to as a “false dichotomy,” this is a fallacy in which one incorrectly places limitations on one’s possible options in a given scenario. This fallacy rests on the false premise that one is faced with a binary...

Are these true “denominations” or are they simple “associations”? How are they different from a Baptist Church (not a denomination) being part of the SBC?

Lutherans have the Book of Concord and the various Synods. Methodists have SOMETHING (because the local congregation split from the powers that be over some liberal issue and had to leave the church building that belonged to the POWERS THAT BE). Anglicans have a near “Catholic” hierarchy. I am...

Baptists are diverse because they are sort of an "anti-demnomination" (the opposite of a denomination). The central idea of a "denomination" is Everyone believes what the CENTRAL AUTHORITY believes [Rome, Lutheran Synod, Anglican Bishop ... whatever]. Baptists hold that the only "hierarchy" is...

Why are Baptists opposed to the union of Church and State? [Do those reasons have any bearing on the union of Church and Commerce?] [Has 'making money' ever had a negative impact on any "MegaChurch"?] Just because the idea is "asinine", does not make it 100% wrong. There is a "price" to...

Accept Biblical truth! :Cool [sorry, I could not resist.] Short answer: SAY you are a Baptist. Long answer: Embrace the Baptist Distictives (those beliefs that distinguish Baptists from other Christian denominations). (From an AI generated search) ... Baptist distinctives are core beliefs and...

Unless the First Amendment has been repealed, there is no "State Church" and people are still free to pray however the heck they want! That we are worried about how they prayed says more about us than them. 1 Timothy 2:1-4 [NASB95] First of all, then, I urge that entreaties [and] prayers...

As a featherweight layman weighing in among those with more education and training then myself, I would like to offer an outsider's observation. This is one area where we "gross sinners" (like the Centurion) are at a small advantage over those that were "raised in the faith" (like Timothy)...

Was "Paul" saved because "Saul" believed in Christ, or did "Paul" believe in Christ because God saved "Saul"?

Do you have any easier questions?

No, you cannot. You can infer that meaning INTO the words of Matthew (Jesus), but Matthew wrote (Jesus said) NOTHING about "those in the kingdom of heaven have been 'born' in some other way than being born of women" ... he just said that those in the Kingdom are "greater". Thus, everyone that...

"Are We Born-Again Before Or After Faith?" ... It is an apriori question that cannot be answered. John 3 is the only place that speaks of "born again"* (or "born from above" depending on the translation), so there must, by necessity, be some ASSUMPTIONS on our part what equivalence we place to...

Stupid auto-correct … “apocalyptic” not “apocryphal”.

Not really ... My "personal view" is that "Revelation" is apocryphal literature, and as such it employed vivid symbolism familiar to its immediate recipients to convey spiritual truths rather than simple historic predictions. In the case of Revelation, there is a God-breathed "double entente"...

Since the quote on "Autonomy" came from the "B.A.P.T.I.S.T.S." acrostic, I thought this article on the origin and spread of the acrostic might be useful: Who Invented the B.A.P.T.I.S.T. Distinctives? [link] January 1, 2011 Who invented the BAPTIST distinctives? Careful now—we hope the reader...

2. Autonomy of the Local Church The local church is an independent body accountable to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the church. All human authority for governing the local church resides within the local church itself. Thus the church is autonomous, or self-governing. No religious...

Revelation 18: 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be...

for to Moses He saith, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness: - Romans 9:15-16 [YLT] I enjoyed your humor. If I may make an...