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Our church has the new member take a 6 hour welcome to our church, going over by laws, theology, membership etc, and also have interviews by elders as to their confession of faith in Christ now Ah, good ole Elect in the Son: A Study of the Doctrine of Election by Robert Shank!

Think still some confusion on my side for how Reformed Non Baptists see the Sacraments, as they tend to be using verbiage and terms and descriptions that seem to be granting to them some measure of some kind of effectual gracing, as still cannot get from my reformed friends difference in sight...

Yes, as we do accept the validity of others water baptism IF was done as a believers baptism, but the "disputed" one would be say as infant baptism in catholic or lutheryn church , as would then expect a believers baptism as would not accept validity of first one , That would just be in were...

Yes, but when satan can get a "big name" to fall, that really gives a black eye to the body and work of Christ

That would seem to be straining at gnats and swallowing a hippo

Based upon him stating that recent president Obama disclosures that he knew Ufos existed and were real violated secret information, so he decided to have it now released to general public

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While in the AOG, had a pastor who always would take off his watch on the podiu while preaching, and asked him about that,"was it to keep track of the time?" No he answered, was tat some of the older saints held to ONLY wedding rings could be worn as jewelry, so in order not to offend, took of...

Think that we have had too many examples of those who were in leadership among Christians and yet were really acting nasty out of the limelight, see Phillip Yancy and Ravi Zacharias for examples

The Elect of God in Christ jesus shall continue in the Faith, as while will and can sin still, will not reject the Lord who saved them, as Bible admonition to those doing that were all lost persons who never had really been saved

Think Calvin had this right when he stated that while its indeed truth we are saved by grace alone thru faith alone, the faith that saves us will not be alone, as it will be resulting in us having good works as fruit and evidence that we have now been saved

Why I prefer the reformed doctrine of The Perseverance of the Saints, as we would see it as one who is confessing have been saved, shall confirm that until death

My Baptist church leadership has caught some flack i that we will not baptize children before age 12, tied into the concept of accountability

Sda holds to another gospel, a false one, and Dr martin was lied to by the Sda leadership, and many in top leadership still accepted EW as inspired prophetess and her IJ heresy. even Dr martin later stated just before he died on John Ackerberg show that if the SDA kept holding to her as their...

Per a Baptist mindset regarding water Baptism, it would do 2 things. First would be a public declaration in Jesus as our Lord and Savior now, a Confession of the faith, but also confessing identification with a local assembly of like minded believers

Reminds me of when was still in the AOG, as a teaching Elder, and in one of our Elder Board meetings, a new Elder who was from Arkansas had just now moved up to Mi, and he went on a rant about us Northern folks being lax and loose with morals. Asked him for an example, and he stated that he saw...

No issue with saying was traised in a Christian home, or in a Christian church, but we should not say always been a Christian

On ther practical side also, many churches would require that for membership and being in leadership

Sda theology has those 2 damnable doctrines of Ellen White, first being must keep Jewish Sabbath, and other is Investigative Judgement, which would mean none would ever get saved

Yes they are, but they would be in disobedience if they know that the Bible commands them to do that once were saved