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I can live with this. Looks like most of us Baptists would be on the same page here. I believe there is a line to be drawn here between being cautious and being overly contentious. If a prospective congregation was being overly contentious about my baptism, I am not sure this would be some...

Hell will freeze over before I vote for this clown!

Actually, I would as well. You have Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen who are going out into combat with no guarantee that they will make it home so of course I am sympathetic to this but there may be some issues when they do return home and affiliate (as they should) with a local...

I have heard this before but personally, I think my KJV is more "Calvinist" than the ESV! 😉

I guess this would be where I am a stickler for baptism being an ordinance of the church and would be adamant of the fact that military chaplains may be viable religious leaders and perhaps even possess a saving faith and be orthodox in their doctrine but they are still not operating under the...

I guess that's what a Babtist gets for insisting on using a Bible translated by a bunch of "Baby Sprinklers!"

We also have the Didache which alluded to baptism modes aside from immersion all the way back to the first century. Didache is not inspired but is considered by most as a valuable historic document regarding early church practices.

Hard to say. All the Apostles were baptized with John's baptism which was supposed to be so akin to "Proselyte Baptism." Baptism did not correlate with Christ's death and resurrection until after Christ's ascension. Those who were "Baptized with the baptism of John" were some really interesting...

All that may be so but at least Israel is not the one strapping bombs on their own children and sending them out to blow themselves up in public marketplaces! I agree that modern-day Judaism has little to nothing in common with Old Testament Judaism. Israelis without Christ are lost as a goose...

Its a good song with a good message and well wishes. Let's lay off the "Bible Prophecy" and "End Times" stuff though. May Christ be glorified and magnified, may Israel look upon him whom they have pierced, may God show the Islamists the emptiness and bankruptness of their false religion and may...

I would be content with JD Vance in 2028 but I am becoming more and more convinced that Marco Rubio would be the better candidate. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a big fight among the Republicans but that the two would work together and perhaps it would be JD Vance's time in 2036? I love the...

Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not...

I agree with you 100% but I was also trying to make a joke here that only "Truck Drivers" could possibly understand in regards to automatic vs. standard transmission trucks corelating a "real truck driver" with with a Christian who has had a "real baptism!" I was thinking there may be one or two...

This is what I was thinking and this would be my position as well. And so long as my "Baptist buddies" aren't lurking about, I would turn a blind eye in regards to the mode so long as it is not brought up. If I were a PCA elder, I would actively counsel new converts to always choose baptism by...

Billy Graham, despite being as "Eccumenical" as he was, never conducted a Baptism service during his crusades. He left this to those who would "follow up" and get them into their respective churches. I remember watching the beach baptism service at the beach in the "Jesus Revolution" movie and...

Philip is the classic "go to" example of "What Church was he baptized into?" and I believe this is worthy of discussion. In Acts 6, Philip was numbered among the original "Deacons" who were selected by the Church and ordained by the Apostles. Of course you have the stoning of "Deacon Stephen" in...

The membership attests to the testimony of the baptism candidate and with the act of baptism, one is received into the church. To the church and to the world, the one being baptized is testifying that their "Old Man" is dead, that they have been raised to walk in newness of life. Whatever their...

With the way that the Marxist news media has each and every action of the Trump administration under an "Electron Microscope" looking for any and every possible spec of dirt, his cabinet would be best advised to take the IFBx interpretation of "Abstain from all appearance of evil" and magnify it...

I have heard discussion among Presby's and Reformed Baptists that the two could actually have "communion" one with another if the subject of baptism was settled. I have heard some lectures on "Refnet" concerning this. I started another thread on this subject entitled "Alien Baptism." Perhaps...

I think I may have hijacked the Tim Keller thread speaking of Baptism but there has been some interesting discussion worthy of its own thread so why don't we move the conversation here? I'll start by asking what exactly makes a baptism a legitimate, "New Testament Church" baptism? Who has the...