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Yeah. My dad died in 2012 from prostate cancer and everynow and then I still get periods of grief. Especially on his birthday and Father's day

I have heard also, not about the wine Jesus made, but the wine of the day was often mostly pure grape juice with a small amount of alcohol to purify it, take out any germs. Could be wrong seeing people did still get drunk off it, unless the getting drunk off it was a different kind of wine.

Yes, I've learned over the past year that Arminianism shares predestination doctrine with Calvinism

Yeah, thanks I was struggling to remember the spelling. I find it annoying that someone would still put me in the calvinist camp and say I'm a 2 point calvinist or something like that. Or that I'm an Arminian who believes in OSAS. All doctrine doesn't originate in the teachings of the...

Alot of the time, people separate all christendom into either Armenian or Calvinist. I believe the Bible doesn't teach either. Salvation as a free gift, not by works, by placing your faith in Jesus, that cannot be lost. I don't think that is Calvinism, because you aren't regenerated before...

Zigactly! And it can also be in the sense of 'the dog' 'the cat' 'the horse' as one type

Yeah, Mathew 16:18, and Matthew 18 church discipline... are the same church type. Local and visible. Like you showed in the earlier post: Mathew 16:18 is as the institutional sense of church. For eg . 'The horse, the bar, the dog, the cat' Singular standing for plural:) Mathew 18.. as the...

Jesus says He will build His church in Mathew 16:18.. then in Matthew 18, refers to a church that can be spoken to, with a process for church discipline. Would He start with something entirely different to what He refers to later?

They were the main driver under John Wimber for charismatic becoming popular

Many also, when you speak of the church not being all redeemed, assume you are denying them salvation. Since they equate joining the big C church with salvation, and we would deny that entity exists (at least until there is one body in heaven).. they think we are saying they aren't saved...

Yeah charismatic and I think were precursors to the Vineyard movement, ie Lonnie Frisbee

I've tried discussing a pure local body of Christ in other forums, but people just blindly refer to 'the church' usually with a big C..thinking of all redeemed. They don't really think about whether it's Biblical. You can conceive of all believers as a body... if by body you mean a collection...

I started at Christchurch Family Baptist..non calvinist IFB.. in 2004, that was independent missionary Baptist. Planted by a pastor who was trained in the ABA in Arkansas, from Meadow Lake Missionary Baptist. He had a mentor from Little Rock Arkansas, Landol Swinney. Landol was friends with...

I'm part of a Fellowship Bible Baptist church in Christchurch, New Zealand. Oldest IFB church in Christchurch I think. Looks like we may have very similar doctrine to you :)

What I've gleaned, is both Anabaptists and independent Baptists have quite a wide variation in amongst themselves. So, someone says Anabaptists, and immediately comes to mind are groups separate from Baptists, because they are looking at the likes of Mennonites compared to Baptist churches...

I have the book History of the Baptists by John.T.Christian. It fleshes out the references and adds others that you see in the Trail of Blood

The thing is, the references in the likes of the Trail of Blood, are more fully fleshed out in books like My Church, by J.Moody and the Battle for Baptist History by I.K.Cross. If we reject that historical evidence, what is the basis?

This is also what I have learned. What is the basis for rejecting this link from some ifb churches to Anabaptists? Is it confounding groups with one another that actually aren't connected? Like saying Baptists started in the Reformation, when actually that was a different set of baptist groups?

Yeah, because they are both called the Baptist union I assumed the same organization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_Churches_of_New_Zealand Baptist world alliance. Baptist union in nz was just in nz