Conservatives Only!

I was with you all the way and edited "Lazurus" to the richman in hell for obvious reasons. I hope you're ready for ...(INCOMING!)

I'm still with you and all the way! I "concur!"

 

Every time this pops up I am amazed at the accusations.

Nobody is going to criticise you for holding your own standards. Unless those standards are straights from the word of God don't try to foist them on others. THAT is where the problems come in.

 

Wow, that was like taking a big gulp from a fire hydrant...I just can't figure out why I feel that burning sensation though. I guess it was all that talk of hell.

I'm all for holding the standard high and for communicating repentance to those who would seek to trust Christ, but people don't need a church that will only tell them what they can't do...they need a church to tell them what they can do through the power of the Holy Spirit and in Christian liberty. It is for some of the same reasons listed above (and in the way that they were listed) that many Independent Baptist churches have remained "us four and no more." Let's try to remember that we live in an age of grace and that Paul said we should become "all things to all men" (1 Cor. 9). I'm not implying that we dumb down the Gospel, but I am saying that we need to reach people with the unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ within biblical boundaries. This is true missions - not some tirade about dress, head coverings, slavery, etc.

 

No Brother Roger, the problems just come in synco-sematic from those who already have a problem with people who stand for a Christian mode of conduct, especially in the area of dress. They always come in with that, "Well, I just don't want people to feel uncomfortable around me" and "Who do you think you are to judge me by the way I dress?"

My wife and I don't feel uncomfortable around women in modest apparel, or men in modest apparel, it's when we get around those who are immodest she gets to looking at my eyes and scowling at the immodest, me too!

It amazes me how people out in the world know how a Christian should dress and conduct themselves, but so many Christians don't.

 

Modesty of course IS a scriptural mandate. Christian men and women are mandated to modest dress. You would be stunned to learn the very conservative standards that our family holds to oursleves. Our problem comes in defining what is modest. I have found that we accomplish much more in loving Biblical instruction than in the ranting and raving that is so common here.

 

Amen, Brother! Preach it!

Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Tit 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

 

This is just one example of the kind of forced standards raving I am talking about. My hair has always been short, very short. But I could get it shorter - I could just shave it. KJV you say "as short as you can get it!" Do you really mean that every Christian man must look like a skinhead?

You also said that no one will get saved without outward standards in your OP. Do you really believe that the Word of God is not enough?

I do qualify here - I am VERY conservative, but some of the arguments presented here are WAY over the top.

 

And now I have a vision of a sundayservice at my church all the menfolk sitting there with their heads cleanshaven, next to them all of the womenfolk wearing huge straw hats.

 

Proverbs 28:23 (HCSB):
One who rebukes a person
will later find more favor than
one who flatters with his tongue.

Once I had a problem with the
poster now named SheEagle. She humored
me by change her moniker. You know,
you can change your handle seen (you
can't change your log-in handle very easy).

I am offended by the name "Baptist1611KJV".
If perchance the one bearing this name
is a user of the actual King James Version,
1611 Edition (KJV1611), that is fine. If i find out they
even use the Gothic font KJV1611.

Anyway, it seems that most who call
themselves "AV KJV 1611" don't use the 1611 Edition.


Baptist1611KJV: "Why is it my Pastor was kicked out for doing nothing?"

Why was i kicked out of a KJV1611 site for quoting
from the KJV1611 (the King James Version, 1611 edition)
instead of the KJV1769 (the King James VErsion, 1769 edition)?

Baptist1611KJV: "Why is it that baptist never want to change their ways?"

My American Indian friend used to like to say:
"White man speak with forked tongue".
Here in the same message you try to tell me that
I aught to be a conservative and ask this question?
That is confusing and i find your message self-contradictory.
"Conservative" means "one not for change".

As for slavery, i have one question:
Why in 2004 are all the slaves sold
in the world Christians captured by Muslims?

 

Todd you are absolutely right about reaching the lost with the Gospel. The Bible says that the carnal man knows not the way of God.

But the people on BB claim to have Christ as their saviour and are not in need of the Gospel. The scripture is given for instruction, reproof, doctrine and righteous living. Why then do Christians bark at it so?

1Co 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

 

Yes, I did. I believed it was more important to make a "friend" on here, than to offend, even though I had personal valid reasons for my former screen name. (Probably the only time I ever backed down from my personal preferences, LOL.)

But, please, Brother Ed, don't drag me into this dog fight. I have no "bones" to pick in this thread.

 

That's a lie. And your reasoning for saying this is also a lie.

 

Yes, I did. I believed it was more important to make a "friend" on here, than to offend, even though I had personal valid reasons for my former screen name. (Probably the only time I ever backed down from my personal preferences, LOL.)

But, please, Brother Ed, don't drag me into this dog fight. I have no "bones" to pick in this thread. </font>[/QUOTE]Thank you for your kind consideration.
Sorry to implicate you here.

To whom it may concern: LadyEagle can
say her own opinion, I'll not be speaking
for her, i'll not be speaking against her.

 

That's a lie. And your reasoning for saying this is also a lie. </font>[/QUOTE]Amen, Brother Grace1998 -- Preach it!

Here is the new reading of
Romans X:9 (Ed's version):

That if thou shall confesse with
thy mouth the Lord Iesus, and shalt
beleeue in thine heart, that God hath
raised him from the dead,
and serue thy pastor's outward standards,
thou shalt be saued.

 

Baptist1611KJV: "Why are the moderators bias?"

Do you mean this?: 'Why are the moderators biased?'

[levity] They are biased, but moderately biased [/levity]

I've experinced in my 20 years of bulletin board usage
several times the mixed blessing of being an
administrator or moderator on a board. It is harder than
one might think. So i have nothing but admiration
of an administrator or moderator who manages to keep
their head above water.

 

T'ain't ranting, t'ain't raving, just stating the facts and No, I wouldn't be stunned by your modesty, I've seen the extremes all the way down to the most lax.

The day I can figure out how to copy and paste love from my heart to the window and it not be trod upon and cast back at me in the effort to rend me, I will rejoice and be exceedingly glad!

 

Nope. Wasn't accusing YOU of ranting and raving. Was referring to the OP.

 

&gt;&gt;Alright Bible Believers, Why is their foolish jesting here? The Bible teaches aganist this sin!!!!!&lt;&lt;

What is "foolish jesting"?
Seriously! What is he-the OP-meaning by this?
Anyone?

 

That was a post in the Humour forum where he was attacking having fun.