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Recent Content by Mike Stidham

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    Who were the First Baptists?

    Point taken. To which I'd also add that in the Levant of that time period, it was probably a good thing that it wasn't! The wine was necessary...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Jul 17, 2023 in forum: Baptist History
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    20% of UM churches have left!

    There are countless others who left the UM's with or without their church.
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Jul 17, 2023 in forum: Other Christian Denominations
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    Who were the First Baptists?

    Been there done that. As for the history of "grape-juicers", that dates back pre-Prohibition to the Temperance Movement of the late 1800s when a...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Jul 17, 2023 in forum: Baptist History
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    Divorce, Sin, Witnessing, Examination, Thoughts?

    And that's it. I too am divorced and remarried. I have to remind myself of this whenever the hardliners try to tell me I cannot be saved, I'm...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Jul 17, 2023 in forum: General Baptist Discussions
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    I am a Baptist

    Yep. That'll preach.
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Jul 17, 2023 in forum: Baptist Theology & Bible Study
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    Landmark Baptists

    Totally on point. Alexander Campbell's divisive so-called "unity" movement, and his claim that the movement was THE restoration of the New...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Jul 16, 2023 in forum: Fundamental Baptist Forum
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    Ask Marilyn - from Parade Magazine

    I take that challenge. Not knowing Japanese, I will not be able to make it rhyme in that language. However, here is Nash's poem as a haiku: A...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, May 4, 2023 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    My Thoughts on the KJV

    What Bible I use is whatever's the closest at hand when I'm wanting to look up something. That said, I will always have some attachment to the...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, May 4, 2023 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Covenant Theology, Christocentric Theology (New Covenant Theology), and Dispensationalism...oh my

    As a Baptist who spent a number of years in exile as a Methodist (long story), I can't recall, even in seminary classes on Methodist theology,...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, May 4, 2023 in forum: Baptist Theology & Bible Study
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    What exactly is the charismatic movement?

    Trick is, Cloud is not all that careful in their definitions. That statement could refer to anything from "one SBC church preaches charismatic...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Sep 11, 2005 in forum: General Baptist Discussions
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    What School Would Liberal Baptists Support?

    Nah, most liberals would find the Mormon cultural rules to be wayyyyy too confining...not to mention Mormons won't let women preach, either.
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Aug 31, 2005 in forum: Baptist Colleges & Seminaries
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    What School Would Liberal Baptists Support?

    That's it in a nutshell, though I'd probably say (as one whose current membership is in a liberal --CBF-- church) that we might be slightly to the...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Aug 31, 2005 in forum: Baptist Colleges & Seminaries
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    need verses about talking in tongues is not biblical in this generation

    Consistency, thou art a jewel. You quote the anti-charismatics when it comes to tongues, but you'll run straight to a Word of Faith guy to support...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Aug 31, 2005 in forum: 2005 Archive
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    Tithing

    I did. Yeah, a Pentecostal televangelist has a lot to say about how much people ought to give...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Aug 31, 2005 in forum: General Baptist Discussions
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    What is YOUR "Life Verse"

    Cool. You didn't take it seriously, then; though the verse IS in there (and I quoted KJV no less). Probably my real life verse is out of Luke...
    Post by: Mike Stidham, Aug 31, 2005 in forum: 2005 Archive