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I did not intend to throw any verses. I intended to quote from the source of doctrine, the scriptures. This in a setting where Jesus addressed the very issue of the will. Are there scriptures that says something different? Dave, to whom would you suggest we go to find the truth? What would be...

Thanks, Van. The reason I posted as I did on the subject of the Nicolaitans is because I am a context man. I know that Paul the apostle and Barnabas did not begin their first missionary journey from Antioch Syria that took them through the region of Asia Minor before 42 AD. I know that they had...

Nothing that Zaatar1 posted is true but here is a Biblical story that refutes what he claims about faith and the will. John 20:19 Then the same day (resurrection day) at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the...

When a Jew is forced out of his country it is a sign that he is cut off from his covenants with God. There are several reasons for this that I will not go into now but I will say that the government of God was and is a theocracy. The citizenship of the kingdom agreed to this form of government...

As a matter of interest, the 12 apostles and the 70 elders who were summoned to the mountain in Galilee and who were to occupy the physical ruling political offices in the kingdom, were also the foundation of the church of Jesus Christ, a separate entity but in the same kingdom over which Jesus...

A preparation for the study of the Jewish Christian epistles and the identity of of the strangers and foreigners to whom they were addressed should naturally begin in Hosea chapter 1 and proceeds from there. No, actually, it should go back to the division of the kingdom into the nation of Judah...

They were the foundation of organized false Christianity, IMO. ACTS 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation...

One thing I like to do is to consider a passage in it's historical context especially if it is important enough to be brought up by the author. In this case of Mt 28:19 it is. By writing this baptismal formula here yet not recording the apostles and elders ever using it God wants us to stop and...

I have proven to myself over the years that the word of God is a supernatural book in all respects, including the words the supernatural God chose and the number of times he chose to use them. I also have found that a numerical structure exists through words and not just numbers. Some are easy...

There is no such thing, IMO, as a Baptist Arminian and there is no such thing as a Baptist Calvinist. In reality one is either a Baptist or an Arminian or a Calvinist. These are totally different belief systems and they all define the person of God and his work of salvation in completely...

I am reading this command to the apostles in the context that Matthew puts it, which is one week after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and it is in Galilee, called in some passages, "Galilee of the nations." Mt 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them (the Mary's V1), Be not afraid: go tell my brethren...

As always, the answer is to be found in the scriptures. It is "no." 1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. The apostle to the gentiles, Paul, did not mention foot washing as an ordinance in his 13 letters to...

Yeah, all us Baptists say amen. I am just wondering if, given the emphasis that Matthew puts on the kingdom in his book, if this is to be the baptismal formula in the future context of the gospel of the kingdom. At this point I do not have enough light to be sure. Mt 24:14 And this gospel of...

What is the issue and what does it matter to us Baptists here? I looked at a couple articles on line to see what anti trinitarian people thinks about Mt 28:19 but I did not find anything suggesting that Baptists of any stripe were confused about the trinitarian nature of God.

It has been my experience that the opposite is true. Nearly every Calvinist whose testimony I have heard or read has said they were a so called Armenian before they saw the light of Calvinism and converted to it. What is your testimony?

Has someone taught it is wrong to do that?

I would take the position that we must view this in a collective sense, not an individual sense. This is the body of Christ and it is he in whom we dwell, that is, in his body. It is he who is being spiritually circumcised here. Read it carefully here. We as a collective make up the members of...

I have no light on that passage except to say it must be an apostolic commission only pertaining to the 12 and 70 that were chosen by Jesus to preach his gospel to the Jews and may be in some way connected to the "gospel of the kingdom." I do not have any doubt that Jesus said it to them and...

I am a Baptist Christian and therefore trinitarian in every way and consider anti - trinitarians to be ignorant and unsaved but what is their logic and reasoning for denying the doctrine based on Mt 28:19? They are not likely to show up on a Baptist only forum to explain themselves.

Reading the comments here I think the biblical definition of salvation differs from one poster to the next and it causes confusion because it is misunderstood. I would say that being "saved" is a New Testament doctrine and it is specifically by believing what God the Father of Jesus Christ says...