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A suggestion was made that we should discuss the “Baptist distinctive” of Priesthood of Believers. A quick Google search revealed that it is a broader PROTESTANT concept and not just a Baptist thing. Here is a discussion from GotQuestions to get the ball rolling: The Bible teaches that all...

It reminds me of a quote from "A Man For All Seasons" (1966) ... The Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship! Sir Thomas...

I sort of came into "Baptist" through the side door. I heard the Gospel from Catholic Charismatics, attended a Church of God and Evangelical Free Church and read a LOT of scripture trying to reconcile my personal salvation experience (from nihilistic Atheists criminal) with the Wesleyan...

I don't know ... look at the survey itself: The very first item is "Over 15,000 churches will close in 2025" ... thus defining "Church" as the building or Sunday Assembly. Is the reason we gather on Sunday primarily "evangelism of the lost"? Is the building really full of lost people? Why...

Verses for those in a relationship with God are not to be applied to those still slaves to the old man that will not come to the light. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of...

I am feeling generous, so I will give you God's foreknowledge (you are incorrect about that verse and reading YOUR bias into it, but that was not the critical point of what I quoted). You were seeking an irresistible act of God prior to salvation [technically, you were mocking the idea of an...

Umm ... didn't God also say this: * For whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. * Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; * whom He called, these He also justified; * and whom He...

... you mean like the popularity of FREE WILL and the idea of Man choosing God rather than God choosing men? :Cool

I told you, Hank is the person that taught me about “Calvinism” … before that it was just what I believed based on scripture and my salvation experience. You stated “your own Calvinist teacher says they are the same” and Hank is MY Calvinist teacher, so I commented that I was unaware you knew...

Hank was ancient … I think he might have studied under old Dwight himself. ;) He is an interesting individual. M.Div from Moody (and an MBA and PhD in Economics from somewhere else) then he helped found Campus Crusade before becoming a VP of sales at Coca Cola. When I met him he was retired...

I didn’t even know you knew Hank DeWeerd (the teacher that taught me that what I believed was called ‘Calvinism’). However, I am pretty sure that Hank considers “Compatibalism” and “Hard Determinism” as two different things. (Moody Graduates are usually pretty good at understanding definitions...

That plus "foreknew" before "predestined" before "justified" (and Justified happened before I was born when Christ died and rose).

That sounds like a "YOU" problem. We can explain it TO YOU, but we cannot understand it FOR YOU. How about Genesis 50:20? Compatibalism or Hard Determinism? The story of Job? Compatibalism or Hard Determinism? The fall of Adam? Compatibalism or Hard Determinism?

#6. All true Calvinists believe all 5 points of TULIP! [a variation on "No true Scotsman" ... since Scotsmen are Reformed!] :Cool

Technically, that was not the question. Irrespective of C or A, do you believe Salvation can be lost? That places you on YES or NO to "(P)reservation of the Saints"

What if someone was saved and still damned? What if a man got married and remained a bachelor? What if an omnipotent God created something more powerful than himself? The list of impossible self-contradictions goes on and on ... To be saved is to become a new being ... to have a new nature ...

It says what it says. The problem is that ... as is too often the case ... what it SAYS cannot be what it means. The verse is clear enough that: 1. it is a GIFT. 2. it is given to ALL MEN. 3. the gift provides JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE. ... and we know from many other verses that "all men" do not...

[Rom 3:21-26 KJV] 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and...

That is one of the most disturbing thoughts that I have ever read. Your answer to the philosophical question “Can God create a rock that God cannot lift?” is “Yes, not only can He, but God has!” “God created a Law that is more powerful than even himself … a Law that even God CANNOT violate.”...

Compare that to the current 2022 Russo-Ukraine War: 350,000 killed