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You are using gross generalizations to apply to a large group of people that you have no way of knowing whether it’s true. It would be like me saying that all creoles and Cajuns are inbred rural swamp-dwellers who hunt alligators and speak unintelligible English because I saw one on TV once.

Agreed, but then again I’m not a Rushdoony Reconstructionist or Christian Nationalist.

I’d say the Democratic Socialists are winning the “who can burn it down faster” race.

And at least three separate times in the other thread I either implied or stated that the decision would be the collective effort of the church after deliberation on the matter. If you read Tarheel’s response, he said “we decided”. That means that either a group of elders or the church body...

For whatever it’s worth, speaking anecdotally, both my wife and mother have vestiges of expectations that they ought to wear a dress to church. Neither grew up IFB, nor gleaned it from their time in an IFB church. It’s related to cultural norms of that era more than any explicit doctrinal teaching.

How are you defining the word “cult”?

I fully respect that 👍🏻

I think the nature of the doctrine of church discipline, among other things, is the strongest argument against the interpretation that the parable is about the church.

I totally agree we need to be careful and patient before judging somebody merely prayed a prayer. The Billy Graham Crusades, however, is a different context than a short commercial. The content of the gospel presentation at the Crusade was always thorough. And I certainly am not denying that...

Yes, what you describe is worthy of a personal talking-to for disrupting the solemnity of the assembly. If the Elder or leaders approached them in humility to try to understand what the reason and rational for being late is there is possibility that greater understanding could be had, and...

Maybe a better question is why should we (hermeneutically speaking) interpret the parable to be Jesus teaching a chronology of eschatology, rather than patience for believers to realize the kingdom wasn’t going to instantaneously usher in a (political) purge of the enemies of God?

I just find it interesting that in light of that simple and straightforward explanation by Jesus that so many prominent theologians ( Augustine, church fathers , Ryle, etc) insist on forcing it onto the church. “This parable teaches us that good and evil will always be found together in the...

Yeah, I know I refuse to discuss the Trinity with those heretics too. 😉

Matthew‬ ‭13‬:‭24‬-‭30‬ Is this parable about the church or the world? “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But...

As often is the case with common sense issues in things that are not explicitly commanded in scriptures, I think a one size fits all approach doesn’t work well. For instance, in agreement with the “lock the doors“ theory, we did that at one time at our church for a while because of an awareness...

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Not a fan. There are many reasons why people might be running late that are legitimate reasons to show grace. I would say if I was visiting a church and that was the policy that I encountered at the door I would know that I made the right choice in moving onto the next possible Church home. To...

A stadium full of what? People who may or may not understand the gospel and have questions about whether they say the right words in a canned prayer?

It was post 140. That was hyperbolic rhetoric. In other words, the obvious expected answer to my question then was “no”. For homework, see Reductio ad absurdum. And my question, rhetorical as it was, stemmed from the statement (about removing them completely from access to the public) you made...

I have no issue with your general observation and personal “standard” at all. That’s just not what the opening post is about as it relates to some harder core IFBs and their expectations of members to adopt the standards that are preached from the pulpit.