Attention all Non Baptist / Anabaptist Guests please read!

[P_G]

We are so happy that you came to fellowship with us today in the Baptist - Anabaptist forum.

We have a rich and wonderful faith and heritige and we are glad to share it with you. However as a mod there is an issue that needs to be addressed and as a moderator on this forum and as part of the moderator staff I need to speak to you on this.

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The following is a rule in the Baptist / Anabaptist forum:

3) Non-Baptist/Anabaptist members (eg. Catholic,Charasmatic, Weselyan, Lutheran, etc... members) can only post fellowship posts here or posts to ask a question regarding Baptist/Anabaptist doctrine. Once the question is answered, there shall be no debate over the answer in this forum by the Non-Baptist/Anabaptist members. Any debate posts by Non-Baptist/Anabaptist members will be deleted or moved to the appropriate forum. In other words, only Baptist/Anabaptist members can debate here.

We are pretty liberal about how we determine if you are a Baptist or Anabaptist. Some who come in here have generic Christian icons. Others like me have some thing else even still. We will look to see what church you belong to in your profile and maybe even ask you. In my case I belong to Great Shepherd Mennonite Christian Fellowship as Well as Congregation Nehmiah Center.

However if you are not Baptist or Anabaptist in any way shape or form. You cannot debate here. You may ask a question and what ever the answer is you must accept that answer as it is given. You may ask a follow up question if you need clarification to be sure but debate or discuss the issue you may not do.

You may post a fellowship message "Happy Birthday" "Please Pray for Me" "I got a new car". Fellowship posts do not make people want to argue with you or send us reports.

There have been a rash of non Baptist / Anabaptist comming in trolling and arguing. I would ask that you would stop this. If you choose to do this be aware you will be warned and possibly banned as is appropriate. There will be no more second chances or quietly making the post go away or allow you to edit them. The mod staff is running ragged dealing with these problems. And it must stop.

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Please help us here ok?
Have some potatoe salad and Tuna Mac cassarole. But no more hurting ok?

Blessings

Pastor George

[5solas]

You may post a fellowship message "Happy Birthday" "Please Pray for Me" "I got a new car".
I didn't know that the Shetland Islands now belong to Pennsylvania... :D - or does Pennsylvania now belong to the Shetland Islands. Difficult question :P

[Stefan Davidovich]

I'm new to this website and I wonder if someone could help me with the rules. I am a member of a Baptist church, however i have not identified myself as a Baptist on my profile. Does this limit my ability to discuss on this forum?

thank you for your help.

Stephen

[RED that's ME]

Hi Stephen Welcome to Christian Forums. :wave: Any member who's a Baptist/AnaBaptist member is allowed to post in the forum. :) If you have any other questions feel free to ask or PM a staff member. :)

[1SweetJream]

O.K. this may be a dumb question so please forgive my ignorance (sp?)

Can some1 please explain what an AnaBaptist is? :scratch:

I've been a Baptist all my life & have never heard of this. :confused:

[Facing East]

I come from a Mennonite heritage. Mennonite or anabaptists as they are often called refer to people who are "re-baptisers" in that they beleive firmly in believer's baptism....as well as other tenets of the Reformation faith in it's various forms and interpretations.

[McDLT]

I'm a little confused as to why Anabaptist and Baptist are together? They come from 2 very separate and distinctive movements. Any clarification would be helpful. Thanks

[McDLT]

O.K. this may be a dumb question so please forgive my ignorance (sp?)

Can some1 please explain what an AnaBaptist is? :scratch:

I've been a Baptist all my life & have never heard of this. :confused:

You may never have heard of Anabaptists because Baptists and Anabaptists are 2 separate denominations from distinctive backgrounds, not related except through Christ.

From the Mennonite Brethren denimonation website:
Zwingli attracted a group of young radicals who wanted even more reform. Conrad Grebel was a bright but rebellious son of high society. His decadent life had been transformed through new birth in Christ. His colleague, Felix Manz and he disagreed with Zwingli on the issue of baptism, arguing for believers’ baptism, rather than infant baptism. They also advocated the separation of church and state. The Zurich Council ordered Grebel and Manz to stop their home Bible studies and thus the group broke completely with the established church. On January 21, 1525 this group met to pray about their critical situation. Moved by the Spirit and with great fear, every person present was baptized and pledged to live in separation from the world. Anabaptism – to be baptized again – was born.
Hope this helps a bit. :)

[RED that's ME]

The reason why AnaBaptists was included in the Baptist forum is because they're a small group on CF and the Baptists were the closes on doctrine to join with. Faith groups that are too small for their own forum are joined with similiar groups.

[McDLT]

The reason why AnaBaptists was included in the Baptist forum is because they're a small group on CF and the Baptists were the closes on doctrine to join with. Faith groups that are too small for their own forum are joined with similiar groups.
Thanks for the reply.

[Salsa_1960]

Thanks for the reply.


If you had never been baptised, but were bapisted as a believer's baptism, are you an anabaptist or a baptist? How are re-baptisms defined ?

[McDLT]

If you had never been baptised, but were bapisted as a believer's baptism, are you an anabaptist or a baptist? How are re-baptisms defined ?

I'd say this would make a great thread on its own.

[JPPT1974]

I am baptized through faith as I went under the water, I got rid of my sins and rose up to become a new beliver in an new body in Christ!

[BygTex]

I am baptized through faith as I went under the water, I got rid of my sins and rose up to become a new beliver in an new body in Christ!

:amen::amen::amen::amen::amen:

[JPPT1974]

Thanks Big Tex and God bless you too!!

[SonSeeker]

O.K. this may be a dumb question so please forgive my ignorance (sp?)

Can some1 please explain what an AnaBaptist is? :scratch:

I've been a Baptist all my life & have never heard of this. :confused:

Not a dumb question at all. I understand the explanation of what an Anabaptist is, but is this a new denomination? I also have been a Baptist all my life and never heard of this group.

[JPPT1974]

I have been an baptist all of my life but never heard of anabaptist either myself.

[RufustheRed]

Not a dumb question at all. I understand the explanation of what an Anabaptist is, but is this a new denomination? I also have been a Baptist all my life and never heard of this group.

Not really new. It started on January 21, 1525. Perhaps you have heard of the more common names such as Amish, Mennonites, Hutterite, "Black Bumper" Mennonites, etc.

Have a great day :wave:

Sven

[McDLT]

Not a dumb question at all. I understand the explanation of what an Anabaptist is, but is this a new denomination? I also have been a Baptist all my life and never heard of this group.

Baptist and Anabaptists are 2 separate denominations. Here's a bit about Anabaptists (go to this link to read the rest of the article ~ http://www.mbconf.ca/believe/story.en.html)
The Reformation

In the early 1500s Martin Luther, a German priest began studying the Bible in a way that critiqued some of the problems in the established church at the time. He became convinced that God offered the divine gift of righteousness to believers in God. He also was blocked in his efforts to reform the established church, so in 1517 he went public with 95 theses, which were indictments of church abuses. That started the Reformation movement that touched many countries and regions simultaneously in Europe.

In Switzerland, two other reformers reached similar conclusions. In Geneva, John Calvin, a former lawyer reacted much the same way as Luther. In Zurich, Ulrich Zwingli also preached reform. Known as “the People’s Priest”, Zwingli was flamboyant, energetic and a powerful preacher.

The Radical Reformation – Anabaptists

Zwingli attracted a group of young radicals who wanted even more reform. Conrad Grebel was a bright but rebellious son of high society. His decadent life had been transformed through new birth in Christ. His colleague, Felix Manz and he disagreed with Zwingli on the issue of baptism, arguing for believers’ baptism, rather than infant baptism. They also advocated the separation of church and state. The Zurich Council ordered Grebel and Manz to stop their home Bible studies and thus the group broke completely with the established church. On January 21, 1525 this group met to pray about their critical situation. Moved by the Spirit and with great fear, every person present was baptized and pledged to live in separation from the world. Anabaptism – to be baptized again – was born.

[JPPT1974]

Not really new. It started on January 21, 1525. Perhaps you have heard of the more common names such as Amish, Mennonites, Hutterite, "Black Bumper" Mennonites, etc.

Have a great day :wave:

Sven

Thanks for summing it up my friend! :wave: