If I were pastoring a Primitive Baptist church today, I wouldn't allow any PB to preach who held to Absolute Predestination. There are those who do, but I think most old timer PB's have them identified so it wouldn't be a problem. I know I wouldn't want a PB preacher based somewhere in Indiana to preach, because they hold to a no-hell doctrine in that church.
Heck, when I was pastoring a PB church some years ago, I didn't even want that church to be associated with the modernism that tried to bite into our people at that time like it tried to during the Black Rock address era.
But looking at some of the answers here, like the ones about the CoC I couldn't help but shake my head and sigh.
How sure are we that the doctrines we hold on to today, regardless of Baptist denomination, would be accepted into fellowship by the churches that sprouted out and branched off from the Jerusalem church down through the ages ?
Or how sure are we that we would allow offshoots of even, say, 5th century churches into our pulpits ?
Not to say denominations are not good, they are, like doctrines
Helps to keep purity of denominational doctrines within, and if the New Testament church is to be the pattern, well, I would say it certainly is encouraged, but we need to keep in mind the why by considering the context in which they lived, then.
But if doctrines are to be the bases for our judging who is redeemed and saved andwho is not, especially among those of other denominational churches, well, we'd be kicking each other out of heaven, for sure.
