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Well... Ronald Reagan said it best... OzXPWZ0HKts

Well, to start with ... how do you know I'm referring to you?  I don't recall saying that this is a description of "Recovering IFB," or your claim to exclusive use of the term "freebirds."  But apparently, when I tossed the rock into the pack, guess who yelped? Consider 2Peter 2:9-22. ...

Yes Yes No No. Big difference between what a local congregation believes and practices and limits its membership to, and forcing others to conform by law or burning at the stake  those who disagree.    If you don't like or agree with a church's statement of faith, you do NOT have to join it...

Excellent!  To the point, fits well with the overall context, and agrees with cross references.  I whole-heartedly concur. 

If I am not mistaken, I think John R Rice also had a similar view in his book on The Home, Courtship and Marriage.

So-called "Freebirds" have a great disconnect between evanglism and Christian living.  They seem to firmly believe that it is best to hide any cross-bearing or commandment keeping in order to attract others into the fold. However, Christ in the great commission included that we are to teach the...

So, you believe the man who said "Sola Scriptura" was an IFB?!? I kind of place you in the "Solum Patres" camp.  Those who seem to consistently elevate their creeds and patristic writings far above the Word of God. Baptist history has long been filled with teaching the priesthood of the...

Stick with the Bible, and you should be okay.  It's like training someone to recognize counterfeits.  You do that by letting them become familiar with the real thing. Regardless how you cut it or what others tell you, God is NOT willing that any should perish.  He would still have all men to be...

Ya reckon it could be a guitar-wielding charismaniac from the olden days? Or perhaps one of his relatives?

There are so many to choose from!  The "freebirds" love to proclaim how Jesus "ate with sinners."  They seem to ignore just where that accusation was coming from and question its validity.  Much like Simon the Pharisee who thought to himself privately that if the LORD just knew about that...

No, that is the problem of those who consistently reject an unchangeable word of God and worship at the feet of mortal men and their "scholarship."  We, on the other hand, teach that the Bible is a book to be lived, God's commands to be obeyed.  You  just cherry pick some proof-texts for vanity...

Agreed.  Twin sins that are both destructive.  Interesting how much a certain diet figures into sin.  For example, The first command and the first sin ... eating the forbidden fruit The people of Israel in the wilderness and their lust for meat instead of manna Daniel who refused to defile...

I love that topic.  Something you often miss is the context of where you cherry-pick your verses from. Matt 23:23  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these...

Well, I know your penchant for playing Jehoiakim with the penknife, but I wasn't aware the verse about "private interpretation" was one of those your "scholarship" had excised from God's preserved word.  Praise God for a WHOLE Bible that includes all of 2Peter chapter 1.  Aren't those...

Nice thread.  Unfortunately, don't have time to wade through all of it.  But here is my offering: Titus 2: 11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in...