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Good post, but I have to say that Calvinism is not a Baptist doctrine.

Sorry, I'm not going to change on believing that Baptist ecclesiology (and anyone else who follows the points I laid out) is closest to Scripture. Now there are so-called Baptists who don't follow the Baptist distinctives, and I do not consider them to be true to the faith. But you see, I was...

Is it biblical to be baptized by immersion? Is it biblical to take the Lord's Supper? Is it biblical to make the Bible your sole rule of faith and practice? Is it biblical to have each church be autonomous? (There are no denominational headquarters in the Bible.) Should a church have just two...

Well said. Along that line, I had a friend who was supported by one church at $500 a month. The problem was, he had to document every expenditure right down to a candy bar! I would have turned down the support, myself. :oops:

We Baptists believe that being a Baptist is to be as Biblical as possible. I heard about a Japanese church which was often visited by Baptists from a nearby US military base who could not speak Japanese, but nevertheless attended and always had their Bible out. When the Japanese church...

I'm not against such financing, just against a completely free ride (complete scholarships). My son got through college and his MA and MDiv by working, but the PhD was very expensive. My students nowadays graduate with tens of thousands in debt, which takes forever to pay. Where I teach we have...

That was a really tough but principled decision for Judson to make. They were very far from home, only regular mail for communication, which went by ship for weeks at a time, and with family to care for and bills to pay.

That's exactly what I got one time, a 7 page questionnaire from a supporting church with stuff like you mentioned. As soon as I saw it I knew that support was going to disappear and the friendship with the pastor was over, but I answered the whole thing as a matter of principle. I had taken...

That's a good question. Don't know! Generally missionary biographies and mission histories don't have that information. But I'll say this, I've never known a missionary who thought he had enough support! :Coffee

Heh, heh. :Biggrin

English: KJV, NKJV, NASB, ESV. EMV (English Majority) Japanese: Shinkai Yaku (like the NASB), Kogo Yaku (1st Japanese colloquial), Lifeline Japanese NT. Greek: TR, Byzantine Textform, Majority 2nd ed., UBS 4 Hebrew: Leningrad Hebrew OT

Yeah, but don't tell my wife. I have her fooled. ;)

I am against full scholarships myself. The student with a full ride, a free college education, may not value his or her education enough. I worked for two years as a stage hand (long nights sometimes), then for four years full time in a factory to pay for my college education, and was debt free...

You're bald.

I was about to recommend caution, it being only online and free, but then I looked at the list of profs, and there are some major scholars listed. Go for it! (Thanks Mikey for listing some of the scholar-professors.) The caveat is that you can get an education online, but you usually won't get...

I can only find "glutton" in the Bible twice: Deut. 20:21 ands Prov. 23:21, with two different Hebrew words. Neither Hebrew word is about over-eating in the BDB lexicon, though Prov. 23:20 clarifies v. 21. I'm not saying it's a good thing to be overweight, but it's not treated as a sin anywhere...

I have read that he smoked cigars, but quit when he saw his name used in an advertisement: "The Cigar Spurgeon Smokes!"

There are still little corners of research in various areas. My son's PhD dissertation at Southeastern BTS was on: "A Foreknown Destiny for the Socially Destitute: An Examination of 1 Peter's Concept of Foreknowledge in the Establishment of Social-Spiritual Identity." In it he does original...

Aha! Thank you.

One thing for sure, the DD (Doctor of Divinity) degree does not indicate a scholar! It's a political degree, IMO. If you know the president of a Bible college well enough, you might get one. I remember hearing that a certain Bible college founder in IN, whose initials are JH, made a deal with BG...