Featured Top Ten Reasons not to join a Reformed Baptist Church

The list is filled with:

"There's no this, there's no that..."

"We don't do this, you won't find this here..."

etc.

Good list. I'll stay well far away.

 

Well, that came out of left field...

Seriously, how are these comments in any way related to what Icon posted?

 

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

:laugh::laugh: if you just want activity...go to a circus, or theme park....the water rides are always fun:thumbs:

 

Yes and so does the bible and the bible agrees with just about everything there as being of the Lord if not everything as being of the Lord. One would assume the person standing against the things he mentioned is not a Christian.

 

John,
You have some strange ideas:laugh:

Learning about God and His church ..in a way God has ordained ....is a waste of time

As a Baptist ...I always recommend this one for everyone;
http://www.lulu.com/shop/w-r-downin...l;jsessionid=C2CD375F4B4AD6DDF4F9CD305848B0AF

 

The writer of the article is using the fact that we don't do anything as being a selling point. It's a strange way of trying to attract people to your side.

 

ITL....

The article is an attempt at humor.....It was posted in the Reformed Baptist fellowship....which is usually very serious posting.....This was meant to be humor..sort of like .....you might be a redneck it...Jeff Foxworthy does

 

Icon:
If you really want the truth about Reformed doctrine you will enjoy this man as he expounds it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch6niCdIv_Q&feature=related

 

He forgot to add the point about a robe.

http://www.christurc.org/articles/why_pastor_wears_robe.pdf

 

Hitler gives his opinion of Calvinism


:laugh:

 

Ohhhhh that made my day:laugh:

 

Romans 10:17, "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ."

Acts 19:8, "And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God."

Acts 18:4, "And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks."

Acts 26:28, "Agrippa replied to Paul, "In a short time you will persuade me to become a Christian."

Acts 28:23, "When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening."

2 Cor. 5:11, "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences."

 

Glad I could help. :wavey:

 

DHK,
Thanks for the link....I will listen and respond later on.

 

You'll respond alright. :laugh: If you can get through the whole thing that is.

 

He looks sincere AmyG.....I have listened to dozens of these type sermons....
usually the same 6 verses....build the strawman....destroy the strawman....

Maybe i will be surprised this time:thumbsup:

If not.....that would mean.....he also has an adam who did not die in the fall, and he does not understand the covenant of grace...

I have learned to learn even from those who have a defective view....it is a challenge to identify the error. Once in awhile there is someone who actually does not abuse the scripture so badly......when they go to 2pet3:9...that is a giveaway.....1jn2:2.....etc....but I will listen and give it a chance!

 

The doctrines of God's sovereignty and grace deserve a better name than the likes of Calvin. He had his hand in the Michael Servetus murder, and opposed it as a public relations ploy. His writings include infant baptism, and it is obvious he believed in theocracy. I cannot believe a Baptist would be proud of that name, reformed or not. One is not put to death for a difference of theological opinion. Since I was not there it is not fair to use words to characterize his life, but the words thug and theologically challanged come to mind.

 

What was the law of the land? Were heretics to be executed by law?

I do not think that should be the law in our day, because we have no such commandment now.....if we were OT saints...we would be stoning most of the TBN guys daily....

Calvinism....is not about Calvin. It is about the teaching.
Calvin stands or falls before the Lord for his life,actions , beliefs.

He was only one man....one teacher....all human teachers have missed parts of the truth......God has not given all truth to anyone.....since the Apostles.

While he had some errors...to see he was theologically challenged is mis-guided. Anabaptists....who believed in believers baptism to their credit...had some horrendous theology....yet, we do not grasp fully the situation they were in...How many had access to the scriptures, how many were illiterate,persecuted ,etc....

I am glad for all the reformers,puritans etc, who rescued the truth of the gospel from roman corruption.

 

My guess is that I am more Reformed than you, having been raised in a conservative Presbyterian Church. I have enough respect for the doctrines not to trash them with an unworthy name. Who cares what the law of the land was at the time? Was it right? Are our abortion laws right?

He had some errors? If someone was going to be executed, it should have been him. They had the same Scripture we do. His writings talk against church and state mixture, yet, he was in a position of church-state rule. Sounds kind of like Mitt Romney.