ted Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 276 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 7,474 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 51 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1966 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I belong to an Indy Baptist church. It's the closest to what I believe, doctrine-wise, I reckon. t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittylover0991 Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 490 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2,726 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 5 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/06/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/25/1990 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 What "Indy Baptist" and what is "eternal security doctrine"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONE WHO WISHES TO LOVE GOD Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 191 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 8 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/25/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/25/1972 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Hey everyone. This is my first time doing a "poll" and I have my brother's help so I am not quite sure how this will turn out. Basically, as many of you know, I am in Comparative Religions class. We were given a research paper today that we have to write and I am down to these four denominations. I was wondering if ya'll could put your imput in on this. I think he chose this topic because our next unit is "Christianity" and it can be "confusing with the different sects". I would appreciate your imput Thankyou With sisterly love in Christ Jesus, Crystal Hello Crystal I am none denomanitonal Because I truly believe that we already are given a title that of Christian and as we dived into denominations we have a tendency to think our own brand name of Christianity is the only or best brand of Christianity. However I saw a great movie about Martin Luther and it seems to be an acurate acount. The Movies name is L_THER Staring a Joseph Fien_es so it might help with your study about the Lutheran Denomination.......well I hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razberry Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Junior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 108 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/30/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted January 5, 2006 What "Indy Baptist" and what is "eternal security doctrine"? Indy, I assume, is short for Independent. Eternal security is the same as "once saved, always saved" doctrine. YSIC, robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Durnan Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,782 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 49 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/14/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted January 5, 2006 God richly bless all the Baptists indeed! They're wonderful folk. However, with all due respect, which disciple of our Lord called himself a "Baptist"? Was Jesus Himself a "Baptist"? hmm. Very interesting, yes? http://arthurdurnan.freeyellow.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.92 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted January 5, 2006 That's easy - John the Baptist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittylover0991 Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 490 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2,726 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 5 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/06/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/25/1990 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 God richly bless all the Baptists indeed! They're wonderful folk. However, with all due respect, which disciple of our Lord called himself a "Baptist"? Was Jesus Himself a "Baptist"? hmm. Very interesting, yes? I have been starting to study the history of "baptists" and we weren't called Baptists at first, although we were called Anabaptists at some point, but the history of our "beleifs" can be traced back all the way to the first church http://arthurdurnan.freeyellow.com That's easy - John the Baptist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 276 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 7,474 Content Per Day: 0.96 Reputation: 51 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1966 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Indy, I assume, is short for Independent. Yup. Sorry, but less letters typed means less fingers hurting. I don't get too wrapped up in denominations, myself. Some of the more conservative Baptist church's Statements of faith and stuff like that pretty much sum up how I feel about stuff. I tend to lean more on trusting what the Bible says about Jesus rather than some of what more "progressive" and modern churches say about him...in general, that is. Baptist is just the name of the denomination which I associate my beliefs with, that's all. Not so much the Southern Baptist stuff, but more along the lines of the Independent movement that broke off with them back in the 50's -80's. The SBC had kinda moved away from fundamentalism back then and some of their people decided to get back to their roots and broke off. Today, the SBC is pretty split down the middle between conservative and more liberal groups, much like the Methodists are. Check out some of the junk in the Lifeway Bookstores sometime. The SBC owns that chain. And still do, as far as I know. In short, that's why there was a resurgence in Independent Baptist Churches over the past 30-50 years, or so. Each church is self governing and has no higher authority other than Jesus. There are no "higher-ups" to tell them what to preach or tell them which new organization to align themselves with. In fact, most of the IndyBap churches shy away from any alliances with other groups like the World Baptist Alliance or groups like that. Why? Because most of these groups will turn more liberal to gain members. So, we kinda just stick to ourselves. That way, we can handle problems locally, within our own membership. To tell you the truth, I'm probably more in line with the Amish or Mennonite groups, but I just can't bring myself to live like a hermit just yet. t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGR Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 512 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 8,601 Content Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 125 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/16/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/04/1973 Share Posted January 5, 2006 By name, I'm Pentecostal but our church is more akin to the Baptist. Maybe not so much in beliefes (we're not OSAS and do believe in women preachers) but we're not flashy or any sort of thing. We don't do the hard driving music but rely on the old hymnals w/o a whole lot of instrumentation, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razberry Posted January 5, 2006 Group: Junior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 108 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/30/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted January 5, 2006 (edited) Indy, I assume, is short for Independent. Yup. Sorry, but less letters typed means less fingers hurting. I don't get too wrapped up in denominations, myself. Some of the more conservative Baptist church's Statements of faith and stuff like that pretty much sum up how I feel about stuff. I tend to lean more on trusting what the Bible says about Jesus rather than some of what more "progressive" and modern churches say about him...in general, that is. Baptist is just the name of the denomination which I associate my beliefs with, that's all. Not so much the Southern Baptist stuff, but more along the lines of the Independent movement that broke off with them back in the 50's -80's. The SBC had kinda moved away from fundamentalism back then and some of their people decided to get back to their roots and broke off. Today, the SBC is pretty split down the middle between conservative and more liberal groups, much like the Methodists are. Check out some of the junk in the Lifeway Bookstores sometime. The SBC owns that chain. And still do, as far as I know. In short, that's why there was a resurgence in Independent Baptist Churches over the past 30-50 years, or so. Each church is self governing and has no higher authority other than Jesus. There are no "higher-ups" to tell them what to preach or tell them which new organization to align themselves with. In fact, most of the IndyBap churches shy away from any alliances with other groups like the World Baptist Alliance or groups like that. Why? Because most of these groups will turn more liberal to gain members. So, we kinda just stick to ourselves. That way, we can handle problems locally, within our own membership. To tell you the truth, I'm probably more in line with the Amish or Mennonite groups, but I just can't bring myself to live like a hermit just yet. t. I have to say I wasn't aware southern baptists were split down the middle, so I just want to say I'm on the conservative side. I wasn't aware the SBC allowed women to preach either, which another poster mentioned. The Baptist churches I've attended are very informal (just happy to see you there), and sing all the old hymms with a piano player. Just good old fashioned worship, I guess you'd say. Missionary work is very important though. I honestly don't worry about denominations though. I started off in a Baptist church because they had the doctrine that made complete sense to me, however, I don't believe Baptist's, or any other denomination, have the market cornered on God or salvation. After all, God was the one who loved us enough to send His Son, and without the Holy Spirit revealing that knowledge to each of us, we'd all still be lost. Now, we're His children!! Amish or Mennonite! Being a hermit I could handle, no electricity though--yikes. I really like a hot bath at my fingertips. Not to mention, no computers. Edited January 5, 2006 by Razberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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