What type of Baptist are you?

Well I know above is a joke and that it is funny, but I think there is also something real behind that I do not really understand, but at the same time I am very curious.

So, I have a few questions:

1. Why is Calvinism so tempting?

2. Why is it common to equal calvinism with the dark side?

3. What are the horrible consequences of accepting calvinism?

Note that I mean this message to be friendly and it commes out of lack of knowledge.

Best Regards

"Luke" (Psalm 95)

 

Particular or General:

I'm somewhere in the middle.

HankD

 

Does not the following verse settle the issue.

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Nobody on their own cares for or desires anything of Jesus (it is foolishness to them). God chose those who would be saved form the beginning of the world. At some point in their lives that God chooses, those predestined for salvation are drawn to Jesus by the Father.

Blessings.

 

So with this scripure I believe in. What Do I fall under. @ pe 3:9 The lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but longsuffering to us-ward, not WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT ALL COME TO REPENTANCE.

 

The phrase "God;s sovereign decree" can not be found in the Bible (not mine anyway). I suspect it can be found in the theology books written by men. I like the Bible assessment :

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

This sounds better to me than "God;s sovereign decree" because I can identify with John 1:12.

I can also identify with the following passage:

John 11
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

One day I was reading this passage and it was if Jesus was there in the room with me asking me this question. I quite all my struggle and disbelief and said exactly what Martha said "yeah Lord".

Did I choose at that point? I don't know.

So as far as I am concerned this puts me somewhere in the middle.

HankD

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Oh goody, another Calvin free will debate. Time for one on alcohol again.

 

I am an Anglo-Catholic Baptist, so called by my enemies, but believe I am true to New Testament and historical definitions. We just happen to be called Baptists, just as Christians were labelled by what they did and not by their own declaration in the beginning.

Cheers,

Jim

Oh, I am Calvinist to the core and have been all my new born life.

 

[inappropriate remark removed]

 

I am a member at a Free Will Baptist Church.

 

That's a rather nasty thing to say, even in jest.

Thankfully, I am Canadian and NOT American.

Cheers,

Jim

 

I am just Joking with you:thumbs: I am sorry if you took it the wrong way. No this is not a joke this time, I am sorry. Did you hear about that man that kidnap that little girl and tried to make her a Christain that is who I am talking about. That one picture on the left kind of looks like that man.

 

Your beef is with an individual, not a nation. I don't believe America did anything to you.

 

I am a follower of Christ who is a member of a Baptist Church.