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It is what gives us the, "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" - 1 Peter 1:8

I started out Baptist and my membership is now Pentecostal Holiness (PH). The PH have altar services where saints and sinners meet for prayer. I have since learned that our services were carried out in same Methods as the Methodist 100 years before us. The mourners bench is the best place to...

Most anabaptist believed, "True Christian believers are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter..." And we're non violent. Jan Mattys was an exception, and was not at all like his elder, Melchior Hoffman. Most anabaptist would agree that Mattys should of remained as a non violent sheep, and...

''True Christian believers are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter...' - Conrad Grebel, cofounder of a Swiss Bretheren movement , an anabaptist in that he had baptized folk the second time. If the year was 1524, and I had my choice of being a Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, or...

What bishop Mark Hansen showed here was more than an apology... This was pure repentance! You can see great determination in this mans eyes to settle this thing right, in which he did. And you also see a godly joy in the people around him, proud of the decision he had made.

We have a Presbyterian church near by. Instead of bible studies they want to talk about environmental issues. So that is not my kind of place either. Come to think about it, it is hard to find people who like discussing bible these days. I bet most people do not know who John Calvin and Jacob...

There is such a wide array of spirits in churches these days. I would have to visit and see. I visited a Baptist Church once where the young people met in a seperate building where you could hear the religious rock and roll through the walls. Then there are Baptist churches that are more...

I believe there are bad apples that grow on every denominational tree.

I consider myself Wesleyan. However a good Wesleyan revival is only good for a few decades before it grows cold and we become just as Laodicean as the rest of the church. So I lean more non denominational.

Calvin, at times, could be quite irritable, but much of this can be attributed to his ill health. He was plagued with constant headaches which hardly ever left him. The pain was so intense that many nights he could not sleep. He also had some kind of disease of the trachea which, when he spoke...

Luther had been suffering from ill health for years, including Ménière's disease, vertigo, fainting, tinnitus, and a cataract in one eye. From 1531 to 1546 his health deteriorated further. The years of struggle with Rome, the antagonisms with and among his fellow reformers, and the scandal that...

I believe both Martin Luther and John Calvin started out with good intentions, but really got cold and hateful in their writings as they would age. The both of them would also suffer health problems and did not at all die in peace.

And John Calvin describing the Anabaptist in misleading and damaging ways. Here is a list of the name calling.... 1. Called their doctrine a bottomless bit 2. Accused them as being a canker, differing from all other sects of heretics. 3. Accused them of foolish and false opinions 4. Called...

In the statement, titled "Action on the Legacy of Lutheran Persecution of Anabaptists," the assembly repented for violent persecution of Anabaptists and for the ways in which Lutheran reformers supported persecutions with theological arguments. The statement asks for forgiveness "from God and...

To define the Anabaptist.... "Anabaptists are Christians who believe that baptism is valid only when the candidate confesses his or her faith in Christ and wants to be baptized." - Anabaptism - Wikipedia " I have never taught Anabaptism.... But the right baptism of Christ, which is preceded...

I am a long time supporter of the Bible Broadcasting Network, founded by the late Lowell Davey, who would later rebuke and take the John MacArthur program off the air.... "In December 1989, the Bible Broadcasting Network terminated MacArthur's Grace to You program. In explaining that step, BBN...

John Calvin justified killing his theological opponents with the Bible John Calvin’s interpretation of the Bible justified the murder of his theological opponents. Calvin justified capital punishment of heretics with Leviticus 24:16. “The one who blasphemes the name of the Lord should be put...

"TO write against all the false opinions & errours of the Anabaptists, should be a thing too long, & such a bottomless pit, as I could not well come out of." - John Calvin Wow!!!!

If you think John Calvin was a warm and loving guy... I've got news for You!

"For their principles are to confound all differences between good & ill, & to mingle God so with the Devil that it should not be discerned between the one and the other, and so to make men not only without all feeling in their consciences before God: but also without shame before the world."...