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If it was not, I would have stayed where I was born -- the EOC. Look friend, I did not mean to be too harsh with you, but I see in you a tendency which I also discovered in me, and that is to make "truth" so narrow that, in the end and carried to its logical conclusion, you would be able to...

Well, let's you and I form our own church, since we are the only ones to know and hold to truth. All we need is two, right? Then we can exclude everyone else because they are heretics.

Okay, I see what you mean. Thanks for explaining.

JonC, what doctrines would you consider primary?

That's good to know. I'm happy for you that you have found this way to co-exist.

Thanks, Salty. Although familiar with the info presented, I still found it enjoyable and informative.

But brother, who determines what "Truth" is? If it was easy, there wouldn't be so many denominations. Believe me, I sympathize with you. But what I have decided for myself is this: I will try to find a local church that has a loving spirit and that I can mostly agree with. If we decide not to...

As for myself, if not Baptist, and considering where I live, I would probably go with an independent Charismatic church, but not one which held to the Prosperity gospel.

Thanks for your comments and good advice. I'll keep that in mind.

Could you be more specific? Mennonite? Brethren? Other? Thanks!

I knew someone would say that. :)

what do you think you would be? I thought this might be an interesting discussion, partly fun and partly serious. I asked myself this back when I was Orthodox but before I began an earnest quest for the NT church, assuming in my younger years that the EOC was the original church established by...

Ah, yes,I forgot about that provision of designating my offerings only to the local church. That would allow me to join and have believer's baptism. Thanks! I welcome comments from other SBC members or potential members, or anyone else!

Some background, before I get to my main point: Some time ago, I left the EOC in search of a NT church. Having discounted apostolic succession, infant baptism, and any kind of connectionalism in polity, I was left with Anabaptists and Baptists, Pentecostals and Charismatics, and the Restoration...

Actually, they did not. Ignatius was projecting what he wished for the churches, not what they already had or were doing. The three offices were not established until the mid-second century or later. The true apostolic ministry was that of bishop/pastor (one office) and deacon, as shown in the...

Sorry, but in the New Testament, and the churches of the first century, bishop and pastor was one and the same office. That is history. In the First Epistle of Clement, Clement being a supposed "bishop" of Rome, Clement uses the terms "bishop" and "presbyter" interchangeably. All these facts...

Only by counting invalid votes. I am in favor of voter suppression -- I want to suppress dead people's votes, illegal aliens' votes, prisoners' votes, out-of-state votes, multiple votes by the same person, and on and on. Now, if the Republicans could be taught to be the filthy, lying demonic...

And I'm against the Republicans trying to unify with people who would burn down and loot businesses, burn churches, assault and kill police and innocent bystanders, and censor free speech.

God did not choose Biden. He cannot choose evil. Anyone who can approve of something as hideous as partial-birth abortion is a demoniac. God would never choose such a person to lead a nation. Satan would, but God would not.

So, God installed Hitler, and Stalin? Tell that to the Jews, and others.