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Recent content by Indybap

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    Are We to Sin Because We are Under Grace?

    I don't know where the idea comes from that OSAS is the most popular belief about eternal salvation. The majority of Christians these days..I think.. are charismatic or Pentecostal. These have by far the biggest congregations and number in the 1000s if not 10s of 1000s of churches. Most of...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Baptists do have a lot in common with Congregationalists in the way the do things.. but Congregationalists now have been influenced strongly by Reformed Baptists and also have taken on some strange doctrines. Baptists have generally stayed clear of invading false teaching and managed to keep a...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    from the “Apud Opera” pp> 112, 113 By Cardinal Hosius, President of the Council of Trent 1524 “Were it not that the Baptist have been grievous tormented (by the Roman catholic Church) and cut off with the knife during the past twelve hundred years, they would swarm in greater number than all the...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Well tell this to historians who say Baptist's have no known human founder. Many Baptist's also reject Calvinism. Not because they disagree with eternal security, but God choosing who does and doesn't go to heaven regardless of their freedom to receive Christ or not. Have a read of the...
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    Why are you a Baptist?

    I get strongly Baptist in the survey but they put me in the Calvinist camp, when I'm rejecting most things calvinist aside from eternal security. Most Christians say there is only Armenism and Calvinism as if those are the only beliefs you can take. I'm not either..since Armenism usually has...
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    Why are you a Baptist?

    I relate fully. I am also divorced and just had a period between churches of looking for one. Funny thing I got though is the small differences in independent Baptist's. Closed Vs close communion. Voting in a member Vs having no membership process. In the end I didn't divide over this and...
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    Not a believer, I think I committed the unpardonable sin.

    You just commented on yourself.. therefore you have a conscious.
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    But they were receiving letters from Paul and others that guided them in the right way
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Well what I mean is .. Jesus did not promise they would have a distinctive set of beliefs.. but the NT churches were characterised by a set of biblical beliefs. I realised I got the wording wrong after posting sorry.
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    What denominations are similar to Baptists?

    Justin A. Smith.. editor of the Chicago Standard a long time ago.. said of Baptist succession.. "The sum of all this is, that whether or not a succession of Baptist churches can, as some think, be traced through centuries of the Middle Ages down to the time when our denominational history in...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Interesting. I'll relook at what I've read. The thing I will say is Jesus promises His churches would be always existing and they would have a general distinctive set of beliefs. Therefore there will be churches with the same central beliefs going all thru history.
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    That's interesting. I know there are two main different takes on the Waldenses... One is that Waldo wasn't the founder of their movement but a key leader among them. That what the Waldenses had was from earlier groups that could link themselves to the apostolic time churches. Also that they...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Okay.. so what historical book is this information from? If it is Catholics writing about Waldenses.. then it has to be taken with a grain of salt. If it's non-christians writing about Waldenses then it will have a no divine intervention bias before even looking at their history. The writers...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Okay, well I am starting to understand the difference more now. I agree there are ana-baptists that are quite different to what we think of as baptists. I just don't think it's truth to give the baptists are starting date in line with the reformers. Baptist distinctive doctrine and churches go...
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    Seperating baptists and ana-baptists

    Well, this is where it gets a bit more interesting. It depends what is meant by Anabaptists. If it just means any group who will re-baptise believers from an unscriptural church or denomination.. then that includes independent Baptists who re-baptise...and not just Mennonites, open brethren...
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