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1. If you are going to start a thread in this forum, you must be clearly identified as a Baptist since this is a Baptist-Only area. As such, only BAPTISTS are allowed to post on any thread in this Forum. Non-Baptists may feel free to start a thread on the same subject in the "Other Religions"...

The only thing my being 'a few months older' than you is that I'm 'a few months closer' to heaven.

In some cases you might add "oral tradition" into the process as much OT was "standardized" in continual repetition, but unsure if that would apply to the prophets as much as to Torah, History, and Psalms

We do NOT use the word "HERESY" on the BB. Easy to use term to slur and slander. Usually ask permission to change the word (and scold miscreant for using it). I hate to be a stickler for rules, so changing the title to an accurate word without violating a 24-year rule I've enforced since the...

Kudos for starting a new thread on the subject rather than getting lost in previous discussions.

Appreciate your honesty in this matter. Blessings - discussion in the non-Baptist section is wide open BUT it obviously not the same depth or intensity

Growing up, I thought the Trail of Blood that promoted Anabaptists and other groups (Donatist, Waldesians, etc) as "the same" as Baptists today. I read historians to show each group had some areas in common with modern Baptists but were really "heretics" (their word). Then I realized the...

Isn't there are more that make a "Baptist" Church than just water immersion/regenerate memberships?

Personal take on "IFB" During Vietnam, I was endorsed as a Naval Chaplain. At that time the category was Protestant. I believe now they have Baptist as a classification. I accepted that label. (I did not get the opportunity to serve, sadly, as the weekend I went to Detroit Naval Yard for all...

While Van and I often have disagreements (mostly because he's wrong, but I digress), I agree that his evaluation of this poster is the right move. Waste of time.

Some believe in a mystical invisible universal "church"; many do not. Some believe you can trace churches from John the Baptist (not John the Lutheran) to today in apostolic succession; many do not. Some believe God lied when He gave us eternal life and that we can lose it; many do not. Some...

The concept of mystical connections to numbers/letters is usually a part of every religion in history. I spent a day in Sepphoris, Israel, discussing the Kabbalah with Jewish and Christian scholars, as this mystical school of thought that focuses on God's essence and the mysterious ways God...

Thankfully, no one here as the ability to question your eternal life, brother. Warned our new member NOT question salvation of another. Let's all move on.

Agree with you, brother. Bible gives simple guidance on issues like this. "One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who...

Odd fuss of late on this Forum over red-letter words in the Gospels as being inspired (or must be believed in order to be saved) but all the other writings of Paul, Moses, John, Peter, David, etc, may or may not be inspired or needed for salvation or of somehow lesser, non-authoritative value...

Agree. Hated to move this, but its focus is on the candidate and not the issue of abortion so forced to.

After the SECOND Revolution and changing the fledgling Republic from the Confederation of states - the government Patriots wanted and fought and won the FIRST revolution 1775-1783 by blood into a new entity by a new, radical Constitution - there was a bloodless, destructive overthrow in 1789...

In working with churches that have had horrific issues with a pastor, I say that a church gets the kind of pastor they deserve. They saw a man with ability and power to solve problems and a few years later realize he was a dictator actually destroying the fabric of the church. Methinks that it...

Hey, you DO listen to God's Word on occasion and heard me! "Saved" is a wonderful shorthand word that encompasses ALL that goes into this eternal life business!! Salvation begins and ends with God. Since man cannot do one right thing (in God's eyes) and even our most righteous deeds (again...

Absolute truth. God's Spirit MUST work first to sanctify (make soul a new spiritual creation) before anyone can believe. Those who say God gives the Gospel and it is up to us to make the choice, THEN God calls us must believe MAN is sovereign choice-maker in salvation, not God. We know that...