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Thanks, that makes sense. I'd never heard "crickets" used in that way before.

Sorry but I don't understand. What have crickets got to do with adding to or subtracting from Scripture? Perhaps "crickets" has a meaning other than the grasshopper-like insects that I am not aware of. Thanks for your patience

Yes, I think the greatest difficulty is posed, not by words that have gone out of use since 1611 (their meanings can easily be looked up), but words which have changed their meaning since 1611. For example, we still use the word "prevent", but for us, it means to stop something happening...

Sorry, you seem to be ascribing things to me that I didn't write. If the misunderstanding is my fault, I do apologise. I have never written that many are saved having never heard the gospel. I have never said, either, that anyone who disagrees with me rejects God’s sovereignty. That sounds...

In your opinion they are not biblical, but those of us who believe them believe that they are. That is why the statements of faith of local churches today that believe them include scriptural references, so do the historical confessions of faith they are based on, like the 1689 London Baptist...

How do those doctrines question God's sovereignty?

You may not agree with them or believe them, but people who believe the doctrines of grace do so because they believe that that is what the bible teaches. Look through the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, or the Westminster Confession, both of which accord with the doctrines of grace...

So are you saying you believe somebody can by born again without being saved, or be saved without being born again?

I am uneasy about churches which limit membership by things like nationality, employment, or similar. I can't think of any biblical justification for such a thing. There wasn't a church for fishermen, a church for tax-collectors, a church for tent-makers. Of course, in a part of the world...

But what did Paul write about in his letters? The same things that he preached about: “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (1Co 2:2 NKJV) If someone doesn't believe Paul's letters from the bible, why should they believe anything else in the...

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. The Young Earth Creationists I have come across fully believe that Adam's disobedience drastically changed Creation.

I agree. The angel said to Joseph: “"And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."” (Mt 1:21 NKJV) Not, "for He will make salvation possible for His people." No, He will save them!

Thanks! I had wondered what "Grammatical" meant in 37818's list of 3 aspects of Baptist biblical interpretation.

Yes, I personally believe that except in obviously non-literal instances such as Jesus saying "I am the door" the bible is literally and historically true. I am sure that some Baptists interpret many passages differently from other Baptists; I'm not sure about different beliefs on passages...

There is no single way in which Baptists interpret the bible, because one of the distinctive marks of Baptists is the autonomy under Christ of the local church. There is no "baptist pope" or "baptist synod" which defines what all Baptist church are to believe, and how they are to conduct...

If it refers to a literal throne in the earthly Jerusalem, are you saying that every Christian in the world will, when this is fulfilled, need to go to the earthly Jerusalem? I am looking forward rather to being with my Saviour in the "Jerusalem which is above": “but the Jerusalem above is...

Zechariah 14:7 says: “It shall be one day Which is known to the LORD — Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen [That] it will be light.” (Zec 14:7 NKJV) I think you may mean Zechariah 14:17: “And it shall be [that] whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to...

Sorry, you seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. My point was that it is wrong to ask, "Do Baptists believe/do such-and-such?" because Baptists hold to the autonomy of the local church under Christ. I gave the example of John Gill (and myself) as Baptists who don't believe that Jesus...

When somebody asks, "Do Baptists believe/do so-and-so?" we need to remember that one of the Baptist distinctives is the autonomy, under Christ, of the local church. So, except in a few cases such as believers' baptism, it isn't right to say that Baptists believe or do certain things. In this...

There are some churches in Wales known as "Calvinistic Methodist Churches", but I don't think it's right that in general, Methodists were once Calvinists. The Wesleys certainly weren't. Also, I don't understand how Arminius could have "died an orthodox Calvinist," because it was the five...