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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...

Here is my take. Jn 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. The short answer is that this statement, like all scripture, has a practical application that must not be ignored and then there is liberty for a spiritual application. The practical application is in a Jewish...

Psa 12 has nothing to do with the preservation of the whole Bible. This Psalm was written by David who lived about 1000 years before any NT epistle was penned. As a matter of fact none of the prophetic books of the scriptures had been written when he wrote this Psalm. So many of the things David...

Good Grief! If there were not mystics associated with the KJV believers I would be surprised indeed and if you were not one of the men to find it and report it I would be double surprised. Jn 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I...

Well Dave, you are more of a moderate Calvinist than most on this forum and that is something to like about you. However, moderate as you are, your Reformed view of how God interacts with men still causes you to have several false or skewed foundational doctrines concerning God, man, sin, life...

Gotta luv you, ky but "predetermined" and "allowed" should not be in the same theological sentence, no?

Dave, come and let us reason together. If your course is already predetermined by an all powerful being then another course is not possible and not allowed. An action that over rules the determined course is called free will and another principle besides absolute sovereignty is involved by the...

It is my understanding that angels are spirits. He 1:14. All those sentient beings who are called by the scriptures "sons of God" are also created beings. You can check me on this. The angels before their fall in Ge 6 and also in Job 1. Adam in Lk 3:38. Jesus Christ as it pertained to his...

Not having a clue whether this is true but I heard one time if every person who has ever lived on the earth was given a 3 ft square to stand on, half the state of Texas would suffice for them all. If that is true it would give an awful lot of room to expand. Also, at the beginning of the...

I think you agree with my point. If a man and woman decides the size of their families, and they often do, then God does not determine it no matter what his will is. Natural laws govern among the just and the unjust. My post is about how unreasonable the Reformed doctrine of determinism really...