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Yes, I do.

Thanks. I am happy for you. I have a firm beliefs in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. I just wish I knew him like the Apostle Thomas came to know him.

In the West, John Wesley was influenced by Orthodoxy, and I am attracted to some aspects of Wesleyan theology. I much prefer the EOC to the RCC but could never belong to either. I was raised Baptist, drifted away, but came back.

I've got lots of head knowledge, from 50 years of my passion being church history and theology. And I have some firm beliefs. But life circumstances have me questioning everything -- again. I did this originally in my early twenties. I've had a few experiences that I was certain were from God...

I guess I'm pretty much where you are on all this.

Yes, I've posted a lot. I've got many strong beliefs, but very few certainties, so I'm exploring. I can appreciate struggling to find what you believe. Thanks for sharing part of your journey.

What do you believe? Premillenialism? Dispensationalism? Amillenialism? Do you believe in a rapture? I'm not sure where I am in this, but I am sure where I am not: Dispensationalism, and a rapture theology.

Yes, I think so too, and to early Quakerism. I could never be Orthodox for other reasons. I could maybe be a Quaker, in some parts of the country, but not a liberal Quaker. That's if there was no acceptable Baptist church around. I'm conservative, but not fundamentalist, and not liberal. I'm not...

I agree that Covid was real, and a killer. I know people who died from it, and people who got it at church. One of my best friends got it at work and was hospitalized; he survived but had trouble with his breathing and oxygen levels for quite some time. I wish, though, that churches could have...

Presbyterians are certainly covenantal in their theology.

Hopefully this is an interesting and enlightening thread. So, what makes you a Baptist? As for me, I hold to all of the "Baptist Distinctives". I have tried to fit in elsewhere, for various reasons, but I have found it very difficult to give up any of the Baptist distinctives.

Since Calvin and Luther were directly responsible for the murder of thousands of Christians, in that sense they were indeed mass murderers. I don't idealize the Anabaptists or the Baptists or the Quakers. But while the Protestants and Catholics were professing Jesus while their churches were...

I can't say it better than Ascetic X did in his reply to you.

Nobody wants to do that either.

Sounds like you've got a good church there. I'm 70 -- it kind of sneaked up on me. :) When I was young, we had 'BTU' on Sunday night -- Baptist Training Union, a kind of night Sunday School, and then a worship service. BTU faded away some years ago. I miss those days. I think the reason...

That would be the ideal for me, too. Before Covid, almost all Baptist churches around here that I knew of, as well as Charismatic/Pentecostal, and Church of the Nazarene had Sunday morning and Sunday night worship services, and Wednesday night Bible study. But now, many of those churches only...

For reasons I won't go into, I can only attend evening church services. The only churches in this area that have evening services are Baptist, RC, and Charismatic/Pentecostal. However, since Covid, many churches have ceased their evening services. I have only gone to church one time since Covid...

True. But that still doesn't answer the question of why there is such a lack of healing and miracles in today's church and among Christians. Of course Charismatiics would say there are such healings and miracles in their circles. I've been in those circles, and I didn't see it there either.

I think you have a point about the leadership. But I don't think the lack of healings and miracles can be laid entirely on the leadership.

Thank you for your post. I'd rather not start a thread on PSA. In the past, and in other places, I have argued and discussed that to the point I wearied of it. I'll just say this: My atonement views align with those held by the earliest churches; those views were neither RC nor Protestant. The...