Subject: What are Calvins and Arminians? |
Bible Note: 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? :) |