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1 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10573 | ||
Dear Norrie: Your writing is fresh and delightful to read, and you have a decidedly disarming conversational style that is very attractive. "Till the cows come home" is as good a way as anyone could describe the way some issues have been agrued on the forum and will, I suppose, continue to be argued by Christians. Still and all, we Christians do agree on many if not most really important issues and on the one crucial issue: Who is our Lord and Savior?....... I'm a Baptist too, Norrie (Southern Baptist, ma'am!) and had usually considered the term "Baptist Christian" to be redundant, something like saying "widow woman." But you do make a perfectly good case when you say you consider yourself a Christian and only incidentally a Baptist. So, come to think of it, maybe the term "Baptist Christian" is not so redundant after all. There could be (but I hope not) a Baptist or two around who calls himself a Christian but who really doesn't have a saving knowledge of Jesus, so he wouldn't be a Christian then, would he?...... Now about this Calvinism-Arminianism (election-free will) issue -- well, I know some people who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Saved, I say. Children of the King. But they don't know beans about either doctrine. Doesn't that put these issues in a little better perspective?..... One book other than the Bible itself that's good to read in order to get away from the trees of denominationalism and see the forest of Christianity is "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis. That man knew how to write and he had some worthwhile things to say. Blessings to you in your life and walk with the Lord. --Hank | ||||||
2 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 10637 | ||
My daughter is getting baptized Sun even. service. We had to go see the youth minister today for counseling (we're So. Bapt church too). Anyway, he was telling her that it's wonderful that she's 9 and knows that Jesus is her Savior, that there are many people that go to church and are 60 and don't know that yet, they know all about Him, just haven't make that decision to put Him on the throne of their life. That does seem sad, doesn't it. :( But I grew up Catholic, born and raised as they say. Then I fell out from the church and became a total heathen for a decade or so, then I accepted Jesus. I mostly listened to Copeland who I never heard say anything wrong back then, he seemed to follow the Bible. I traveled so never found a church home. Then when I finally settled down here, eventually I went to this church and loved it. I had been to several Baptist churches in my travels, some nondenom. churches too w/all the tongue talking, prophecying people, none turned me on enough to want to stay. Then it seemed all the Bapt churches had the same sermon, trying to get you saved. Well, I'm already saved, I wanted a meat church where they preach the Bible and you find out what to do after you're saved and now I have that. But I don't know enough about Baptists to claim being one even tho I belong to that church. Then my mil belongs to a Baptist church that is totally different from ours, seems there's Southern, Independant, Missionary, Primitive, who knows how many others. :) All I know is what I believe and this church seems to believe the same way. Shoot, I asked the youth minister today about the different Baptists and he didn't know either. :) Then I've heard Baptists are very legalist before, these people don't seem so, in fact I wish they were a tad more legalistic. Some of the teenagers dress terrible, girls look like hookers! Anyway, I'm def. not a Baptist expert but I was a Catholic expert at one time. :) I've been on several different type forums and been thru many arguments and know that it's useless to change people's mind once it's made up, but I've never heard Calvinism and Arminian before. :) I guess I must be one of them people that don't know beans about doctrines, maybe I might be better off staying that way? :) |
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3 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Makarios | 10641 | ||
Congratulations on your daughter being baptized, Norrie! How old is she? Thats great! Nolan |
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4 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 10652 | ||
Thanks! She's 9 but has been saved since she was 6, she was just afraid to go underwater. :) | ||||||
5 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Makarios | 10654 | ||
Wow, I can imagine! Norrie, I was baptized on September 9, 1976 in a United Methodist Church and I was 'sprinkled'. :) Nolan |
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6 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 10714 | ||
So you never had a full immersion baptism? I guess I was sprinkled when I was 2 wks old. :) Then after I got saved, I couldn't find anybody to baptize me, it seemed you had to join the church in order to ger baptized and there wasn't a church I wanted to join, I just wanted to get baptized because of obedience. Then in 86 I went w/my aunt to a camp meeting in Rocky Mt, NC, this was one of the nondenom. spirit filled, prophecying places, but I'd been praying for baptism and they decided they were going to do baptisms in the creek. Then they decided the creek wouldn't work and the preacher had a pool that had been covered over all winter, still had cover on, so went to his house and took the cover off and got baptized in that nasty water. :) Oh well, at least I got baptized! | ||||||
7 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Makarios | 10727 | ||
Hello Norrie! No! I've never been immersed! But I can think of a few siblings of mine who would be glad to do it for me.. :) Nasty water? :) Anyways, that is also one of the reasons why I left the United Methodist Church. I found myself coming to the conclusion that I needed to be re-baptized because I had no clue what was going on when I was sprinkled as an infant in 1976! :) And the Conservative Mennonite Church that I attend has Anabaptist roots, and they will more than gladly re-baptize me, since that is one of the 'hallmarks' of their history. :) Nolan |
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