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So what is it that Baptists believe or do that prevents you from being one?

They meet together to worship God. They baptise people who have come to believe in Jesus Christ. They seek to make the gospel known to others, as you say you do. There are other Baptist distinctives such as the church being separate from the state.

Calvinism certainly does not view God as if He were the old man upstairs. Take the first paragraph of Part II of the Westminster Confession of Faith, for example: "II. Of God, and of the Holy Trinity I. There is but one only living and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most...

But the verse you quoted doesn't mention grace being offered, just grace appearing, as it did when Jesus was on earth.

But the New Testament was written in Greek, with just a few words of Aramaic. There is in Greek a word for "cousin" and it isn't the same as the one for "brother." "Cousin" appears in this verse: “Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, with Mark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you...

Yes, with government of the people by the people, which is surely democracy. Republics can be democracies or not, just as monarchies can.

None can be saved if left to themselves. Like Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened to the truth, I now that my salvation depends on God. Not so - God enables us to believe on Hs Son for salvation.

Yes, it is the power of God that brings about salvation. I fully believe that. Yes, I agree that when Paul talks about the natural man, he is comparing the saved, spiritual man, and unsaved, natural man. What have I written that makes you think I meant anything different? My point is that...

You seem not to have answered the fat that Paul not only says that the natural man cannot receive the things of God, but he also cannot even know them. How then can the natural man believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved? Is such a thing not a thing of God?"

But Paul wrote that the natural man can neither receive nor know the things of God. That being so, he is in no position to respond to God and His truth. You say that 1 Corinthians 2:11 will clear things up. As you say, that verse says that "no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit...

Yes, I agree, God does not do the responding for the sinner, but He enables the sinner to believe. Again, I agree. We don't know who will be saved and who will not. We are to preach the gospel to all. It does end with something the natural man cannot do: "nor can he know them, because they...

Well, I cannot argue with an American on American politics. :)

Thanks. I always thought that the USA was democratic, in that it holds to government of the people by the people. I came across this at https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-plans/Government_and_You_handouts.pdf "The United States is a representative democracy. This means...

No that is not what I am saying. What I mean is that unsaved sinners, in their sinful nature, have no desire to turn to God, to believe on the only Saviour from sin. These are spiritual truths which we are told the natural (unsaved) man cannot receive: “But the natural man does not receive...

I assumed that the "Georgia" in your "Well-known member from Georgia was the American state. I think most people think of the USA as a democracy. Perhaps you are from the Georgia formerly part of the USSR. As for getting elected into public office, that is surely up to the electorate.

Does it not include those for whom the public vote? Are you saying that in a democracy, Christians should seek to overthrow the elected Government, and dominate it themselves?

Yes, if you click on the Chinese flag, the page appears in Chinese characters, like this sample from the page: 密苏里州堪萨斯城——数百名牧师和事工领袖齐聚中西部浸信会神学院，参加9月29日至30日举行的2025年“为了教会”全国大会。今年大会的主题是“愿国降临”，呼吁与会者凭着信心服侍，从神的应许中汲取力量，并为摆在面前的喜乐而坚持不懈。

Sorry, but how does Romans 3:1-12 prove that man has free will? The verses say: “There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”” (Ro 3:11-12 NKJV)

The form of government makes no difference. If Christians in the New Testament, most of whom lived in part of the mighty Roman empire, were to pray for their leaders, and not make efforts to dominate and control them/their government, why should it be different for people who elect their...

Replying to my own post, because I'm too late to edit it. Of course it should have started: "Well, according to Genesis, the Flood killed all human beings apart from Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives." I haven't got a strange bible where Genesis teaches mass food poisoning!