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ntchristian

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what do you think you would be? I thought this might be an interesting discussion, partly fun and partly serious. I asked myself this back when I was Orthodox but before I began an earnest quest for the NT church, assuming in my younger years that the EOC was the original church established by Jesus and the apostles, as I had been taught. My answer for myself at that time was conservative Anglican.

So, I'll be very interested in seeing your answers.
 
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Will7

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I would probably be church of Christ because that's where I went before going to the independent baptist church I ended up at.
 
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AustinC

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I could worship in the Presbyterian Church in America. While they practice infant baptism, they still consider the children to be reprobate sinners until there is an observed confession of faith and life of grace confirming that confession.
 
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AustinC said:
Which version of Mennonite? There are multiple flavors. Mennonite Brethren are perhaps the closest to Arminian Baptists.
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No particular version. I would disagree with Arminianism (and some other distinctive doctrines), which is why I am not Anabaptist. But I appreciate Anabaptist theology (and several of their theologians) in several areas.

That said, I would have to know more about their Arminian views (as their atonement views are so different from traditional Arminianism). That is a topic I have not devoted enough time to explore I guess.
 
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There is the genuine NT Christianity and there are the counterfeit, 2 Corinthians 11:4, "For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him."
 
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AustinC said:
I could worship in the Presbyterian Church in America. While they practice infant baptism, they still consider the children to be reprobate sinners until there is an observed confession of faith and life of grace confirming that confession.
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I would go to the one of the presbie churches that do hold to premil!
 
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I was saved in a Presbyterian church. Have been in Wesleyan, Lutheran, Calvary Chapel and Evangelical Free. I consider Calvary Chapel and Evangelical Free to be baptistic. The only one I would go out of my way to avoid is Lutheran. I have come to the point in my life where I accept that no church is perfect and it is up to me to have my personal theology based on the Bible. I would cringe when there is a infant baptism or sprinkle even with adults but if that was the best I could find I would live with it. A friend goes to a Bible Fellowship church that seems solid.

But I'm Baptist for a reason, for what I consider really good reasons but some of the wide range of beliefs/practices within Baptists are just as bad as some of the other traditions from my prospective.
 
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thomas15 said:
I was saved in a Presbyterian church. Have been in Wesleyan, Lutheran, Calvary Chapel and Evangelical Free. I consider Calvary Chapel and Evangelical Free to be baptistic. The only one I would go out of my way to avoid is Lutheran. I have come to the point in my life where I accept that no church is perfect and it is up to me to have my personal theology based on the Bible. I would cringe when there is a infant baptism or sprinkle even with adults but if that was the best I could find I would live with it. A friend goes to a Bible Fellowship church that seems solid.

But I'm Baptist for a reason, for what I consider really good reasons but some of the wide range of beliefs/practices within Baptists are just as bad as some of the other traditions from my prospective.
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IF one was not a Calvinist, Evangelical free Church would be the way to go!
 
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JonC said:
No. Like many who would be Catholic do not mean LGBTQIA+ affirming Catholics (I know many Catholics who are, but just as many who are not).
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However, what 'some nominal Catholics believe' is not what the Church teaches. Many Mennonite churches teach that LGBTQIA+ is 'A-OK'. It is part of their churches teachings.

Does not matter what individual Catholics or even priests, deacons, bishops, etc believe. What the Catholic Church ACTUALLY teaches (Catechism) is what matters. Mennonites churches (just like Baptists) are all over the place in their beliefs. Here is a biggy, can you lose your salvation (as a Mennonite or Baptist) or can't you? I know that most Mennonites/Amish/Hutterite and other Anabaptist believe you can lose your salvation.
 
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