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ky, let me help ou with some bad logic on your part. This is not intended to be critical, just helpful. Just because three things are one does not mean there cannot be division in parts and the unity maintained. Consider the trinity. Three in one and one in three. So, the trinity proves the...

Good deal, Salty. Is there really a wrong way to give to a missionary?

I think this is an excellent answer, ky. We probably would not agree with much going forward but you nailed this. I might word one thing differently. I might change the word "infant" to "gentile." We are in Phillipi, a gentile city in Europe where there are few Jews and no synagogues Gentiles...

We are coming to a place in our conversation where we can begin to understand why we must have a perfect testimony from God. It is because of the parallels that I mentioned. It is because of the circular (if I may say it that way) prophecy where the same things happen again and again and when...

Have you ever heard about "parallels"? Who was more righteous than Jesus Christ. Yet Jesus on the cross when the world turned dark called out to God, "my God, My God, why hath thou forsaken me" without an answer. Most prophecies have at least a 3-fold application. The manner in which God has...

Good questions, Salty. Appreciate it. I am speaking of individual promises. This gives our church a heads up on what we can do through the year for missions. Each person who chooses to participate decides how much he will be giving. Most people choose to divide their giving into either weeks...

We are told in 1 Corinthians 1-4 that the mind of God must be revealed and men in their natural state do not have the ability to discern spiritual truths and follow the logic of a Divine mind. It is inaccessible through human intellect or wisdom. Many times, we are informed, that the ways of God...

Ps 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. I saw in one of the threads in the last few days where someone had made a misapplication of this verse. It was obvious to me that they quoted this psalm to prove that God is angry with sinners now and that he is...

Yes, we support missionaries directly in this sense. The home churches of the missionaries usually act as the boards for those they send out from their churches. We send the missions gifts to those churches who disburse them to the missionaries in the various fields. So, some churches sends out...

My parents were Southern Baptist and I first heard the gospel there and was saved but as I grew in the Lord I came to think there was a better expression of my faith without a lot of the baggage of the SBC. I gravitated to the Independents and eventually our church was introduced to the faith...

We are IFB.

The command is to STUDY to show thyself approved unto God. I think God means to study the scriptures. If he does the meaning of his words are in the scriptures, hidden only to the natural man. If this is not true then how could God, with the same words, reveal his mind to one while with the same...

Dictionaries do not help (snip). I was conversing once on forums like this with someone who believed in limited atonement. That is the doctrine that the death of Jesus Christ did not atone for all but for a limited and very small number of sinners. This led me to opine that according to Romans...

Excellent. We just finished our annual faith promise missions conference where we saw our missions pledges increase about 20% over last year to something over 225K. We support 85 missionaries currently, both foreign and domestic but very heavy on the foreign side. We have at least two families...

How do Baptists who post on this board give to missions and missionaries and how are you involved in translating the scriptures into non English languages?

I would say practically the same thing except I might name the formula as Past, Present, and Future. We have been saved, elected, chosen, redeemed, birthed or any other compatible term that defines a sinner passing from death to life when he believes the gospel of Christ, having heard it or...

1 Cor 1 :1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our...

Who has made that claim?

I am going to agree with your overall point and offer some reasoning of my own. The Reformed cannot accept your view (IMO) because they have divided the "calling" into two distinct callings according to their established system of theology. They are distinguished in their names, the general call...

So you think you are addressing people on this board who are interested in getting the word translated into other languages? Really? It is my experience that people who post on the anti-KJVO threads are not for translations into other languages so much as they are for more translations into the...