I am curious if there any people here that have attended or still do a Free Will or Freewill Baptist church.
Free Will or Freewill Baptist
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No, but apart from the wording, what's the difference between a "Free Will" and a "Free Will Baptist"?
I have relatives who are Freewill Baptists. They reject the idea of eternal security and believe that if you sin willingly, you stand a chance of losing your salvation. They also include foot washing as an ordinance. They also, at one time, had a couple of Bible colleges to train their preachers.
Is there such a thing as being able to sin unwillingly?
Both are Baptist. There are Free Will two words and Freewill one word. As a rule, the Freewill one word would view the Free Will two words as liberals.
The Freewill in my area are very KJV only. Many that I know believe if you die with unconfessed sin, you are hell bound.
They have absolutely no understanding of salvation.
Extra-biblical. But hey, if that's your thing, go for it. Just don't expect me to participate.
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Why are you curious about them? Are you familiar with Arminianism?
My question was are there people here familiar with them. I am quite familiar. I see several similarities between some of the churches I attended and some of the mindset from HAC. That would be more in the Freewill than the Free Will.
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Excuse me for being a bit blunt, but I find the premise of your claim of there being a difference in the two (Free Will or Freewill) to be a distinction without a difference. Are you pulling our leg?
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No, I looked it up after he explained it to me. "Free Will" Baptists are like the southern convention, and "Freewill" Baptists are like the northern convention. They each have their own spelling.
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Following the age old Baptist tradition of splitting.
In Tennessee, there are churches, that are Freewill, one word, that will not belong to the state or national association of FWB. The ones that are two words will.
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At least they're not splitting over the spelling of "Free Will."
Then they'd be Presbyterian.
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I see. I suppose I can say I ain’t surprised. You said earlier “Freewill one word would view the Free Will two words as liberals”, so could you elaborate on what issues make up the division (ie, what makes them “liberal”)?
For one, the churches that I attended were mostly rural or small town churches. In one associational meeting, it was clarified to be on record to use "the old fashioned" King James Version(I think they did call it a version).
The churches that were considered liberal, aren't. I think they would be open to different Bible versions. Would also have a more modern type worship service.
Many of the churches I attended were more or less Church of God without tongues.
It was very much based on emotion and "moving". Coming to the altar.
I am not sure about all Free Will Baptist churches, but the ones I attended were for total abstinence from alcohol.
I think insecurity of the believer was also focused on for more in the more "conservative" chruches.
"Sin willingly" means to reject Christ and attribute the work of the Spirit to the Devil. It's not about the common failures of men.
I probably should have said wilfully instead of willingly, but they mean the same thing,
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
As Ekk pointed out, that verse is about rejecting Christ. Nothing to do with the sin of adultery or murder or any other sin.