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I have some more from history. :Sneaky Here are two of the earliest church documents we have, the Didache (AD 100) and The Shepherd of Hermes (AD 150). The Didache: “Let every apostle, when he cometh to you, be received as the Lord; but he shall not abide more than a single day, or if there be...

I know that "evangelist" is the term used by some theologians (Chafer, etc.) for the modern church planting missionary, but that doesn't hold water. Modern evangelists such as John R. Rice object to this position. Rice had a genuine brouhaha with Chafer over this. Note: 1. Philip is the only...

That's a good OP, but there is something missing: there were more apostles than just the 12 and Paul. The most immediate example is that Paul and Barnabas were called apostles together in Acts 14:14: "the apostles, Barnabas and Paul." However, beyond that, there were others: Andronicus and...

A major difference, again, is the autonomy of the local church. This website shows the hierarchy of a main denomination of the Mennonites: Church Structure | Mennonite Church USA. Mennonites are a denomination, as this website says, but the typical Baptist will deny that there is a Baptist...

Easy peasy if you grew up in the '60's. It's the plastic water bottle.

Well, it's a hymn. Who pays attention to the lyrics?? :Biggrin

Nope. You used the generic "Independent Baptists." That's better. I did not use the term "mainstream." I think IFBs are two independent to have a "mainstream!" ;) Of course there was influence. But there were no direct connections. No early Baptist pastor or other leader I know of came from...

Point taken.

We can accept the narrative of the Trail of Blood if we dumb down what it means to be a Baptist so that it simply means to baptize by immersion. Some of the groups in The Trail of Blood rejected some of the Baptist distinctives. For example, the author has Montanists seeming to be in the true...

Independent Baptist seminaries that do not hold to Baptist perpetuity or recognize an Anabaptist origin: BJU (not explicitly Baptist, but the students generally are) Central Baptist Theological Seminary Maranatha Baptist Theological Seminary Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary Baptist...

There are various groups of Independent Baptists, so please do not lump us all together. It is a complicated movement. Many if not most of us do not adhere to "Baptist Perpetuity." My crowd does not, and the GARBC crowd generally does not. My seminary "Baptist History" prof listed three views...

No. 1. There is no historical congruence. When you look at the histories, they do not intersect. For example, none of the 17th century English Baptist pastors came from or were connected to the Anabaptists. 2. Many of the Anabaptists had doctrines contradictory to the Baptist distinctives. For...

Technically I eat 3 meals a day, but my lunch is usually just a cup of yogurt and some fruit. My wife insists! This has allowed me to maintain the same weight for years.

Catholics, JWs, Mormons, Lutherans, Methodists, and many others might simply identify themselves as followers of Christ. But to me, that says almost nothing about what they truly believe.

Not a distinctive. Back in the day the SBC churches usually thought a child could not be saved until age 12, but that is not the doctrine of the age of accountability.

If they follow these distinctives, we Baptist call them "Baptistic." If there is a denominational structure that local churches have to obey, they are not Baptist nor Baptistic, even if they generally follow the distinctives. The autonomy of the local church is hugely important to Baptists, and...

Almost all Americans overeat, with 3 meals a day, typically. Visit a 3rd world country. Almost no one is obese. They work hard for a subsistence livelihood.

Believe it or not, I have actually heard or read that said! But whoever says that has not ever tried to teach ESL (English as a second language) to a Japanese! They will tell you themselves that they are terrible at learning foreign languages. Confused This is in spite of them having to take 6...

So, please tell me what the equivalent of the KJV is in Japanese. (It is not the Classical Japanese Bible as Peter Ruckman thought; that version has significant departures from the TR & KJV.)(me I'm pretty sure you won't be able to do that, so instead, please give me principles whereby I may...

:D:D I don't go to gyms, but my wife and I sometimes use the walking circuit at the YMCA. For old codgers, walking is a good workout. We have a nice woods here that she and I like to walk, sometimes seeing a deer or other wild animal. I believe in full body workouts rather than one muscle at a...