Fundamentalists abstaining from the appearance of evil?

Go to the website and read.

I dont know.

BTW my maternal grandmother was Jewish.

 

I have studied Torah with the rabbi and Hebrew but only to have a better understanding of the Jewish religion. I was going to marry a devout Jewish woman during my college years and part of that marriage contract was to have the children be raised Jewish... but I couldn’t get past it all. Since then, Christ has become my Lord and Savior... it is he that I follow. And praise God, my dear wife is a believer too.

Does that answer your question?

 

But you were not raised as a Jew?

 

I didn't ask a question. You did.

 

Typical goy answer :Laugh

Come on, you wanted to know if I thought myself part of the “Chosen Race”

However you dropped the conversation about Primitive Baptists quite early. I am still curious why you mentioned that at all. Care to elaborate?

 

No. I was raised as a Catholic.

My maternal grandmother immigrated (Eastern Europe - Prussian) to America in the late 1800's and married an Italian immigrant - my maternal grandfather.

She nominally accepted Catholicism and was married in the church to receive the blessings of the RCC and avoid antisemitism in Boston where my mother was born.

Both my paternal grandparents are Italian.

Almost all of our Jewish identity was lost and in fact we thought she (My maternal grandmother) was of German (or maybe Irish) descent until my sister did an historic trace through birth records.

 

I think you said or implied something about "origins" :)

I had no idea concerning your cultural/racial biological origins.

 

Gotta go, off to church...

 

Soooo..... you are from the North East!

That in itself should define ya more than anything else

Being Catholic also...& Italian. When my father died, it was my mothers family the Italian Catholics who took us in, fed us, taught us Christianity. However I had much less pigmentation than they did and was referred to as “the Pollak”. They couldn’t get over how I burned when I went outside or why my hair was so blonde. I still think that I embarrassed my Grandfather simply because I looked differently from his brood. Could you imagination taking me to an Italian Clam Bake or a Religious Festival? LOL... so, linking me to the Pollak’s became an acceptable excuse.

 

Ya, I have blue eyes and fair complexion as well :)

 

There would be the problem though, as many would label "Reformed" as being the standard for/of orthodoxy, others Evangelical, while others new Calvinists, Dispy theology, and so on!

 

Within that broad umbrella under Fundamentalism though would be grouped the likes of Reformed, Evangelical,, Dispy, etc?

 

No, rather most of us believe in the one true Church of Christ, the Church Universal, within its ranks being all of the saved in the NC!

 

Would get probably same response as for term Baptists, as being those who are right wing religious radicals that hate Gays, minorities, and women, and are Islamiphobes!

 

I believe we abstain from the appearance of evil in several aspects. For instance, while drinking a beer is not in itself a sin, very few, if any, Baptists will publicly drink beer. Same with "cussing". While the only real cursing is wrongly using God's name or title, or verbally condemning another to hell, or badmouthing the Holy Spirit, we don't use the common euphemisms for certain body parts, elimination of body wastes, or the common names for those wastes because doing so could cause another to "stumble", believing such things to be OK because they saw/heard a known Christian doing it, despite their own consciences saying it's wrong.

That's NOT like "eating food possibly offered to idols", etc.

 

One big problem seems to be when a church or an individual places personal convictions /preferences elevated to the place of doctrines!

 

As long as the scriptures call those activities a sin!

 

I will use alcohol for an example.

If I had invited your family to join mine at a nice restaurant, and knew that you were very adamnet against drinking period, I would not order any wine at all, have my diet pop.
I I was out with just my family at same restaurant next week, and you just happen to be there and unseen by me, i woudl order my glass of wine.