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NASB | 1 Corinthians 11:2 ¶ Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 11:2 ¶ I praise and appreciate you because you remember me in everything and you firmly hold to the traditions [the substance of my instructions], just as I have passed them on to you. |
Subject: Baptists |
Bible Note: "We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others; nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the consciences of others under the control of man. We have ever been ready to suffer, as our martyrologies will prove, but we are not ready to accept any help from the State, to prostitute the purity of the Bride of Christ to any alliance with Government, and we will never make the Church, although the Queen, the despot over the consciences of men." --Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) * *Not sure I entirely agree, but the general sense presents a consensus among Baptists (Take it with a grain of salt). On the other hand, Spurgeon would be someone with whom you could have far greater confidence in than with me! |