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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Christian Denominations
- Topic: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1484
Re: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
All forms of photography (things like a document scanner scanning documents is not in scope, nor things like taking photos of items on a shelf for a business). When required for eg government ID Holdemans will allow someone else to take a photo. Some Amish groups hold a similar stance. The Beachys ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Denominations
- Topic: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1484
Re: Questions for Anabaptists: Plain or Old Order
Do Holdemans resist all forms of photography or only ones that involve pictures of themselves ? All forms of photography (things like a document scanner scanning documents is not in scope, nor things like taking photos of items on a shelf for a business). When required for eg government ID Holdeman...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2490
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Quite an interesting read, this thread. Now for a little shot at 'conservative Christians'. The 'holier-than-thou' group. ;) It often sounds to me like the most godly, most spiritual, most holy 'culture' in how to follow Jesus is the one today labelled in Anabaptism as 'Conservative'. This sounds qu...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 11
- Views: 339
Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
This might be controversial, but I would draw a line between doctrines, not based on how important they are, but by how certain I think we can be of them from scripture. There are some things that seem very clear and straightforward, others seem to be open to some interpretation. Zwingli's stance a...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Re: Works of the flesh observations
Dissensions - implies strife or discord and stresses a division into factions. Sounds to me like what has happened to many Anabaptists. Perhaps the most fragmented group in church history. The city and vicinity where I live in southern Ontario has many Mennonite groups that at some point in time ap...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Re: Works of the flesh observations
This letter was to a church, so these characteristics are ones that represent behaviours that can show up in a church when they are living according to the flesh and not according to the Spirit.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Re: Works of the flesh observations
Dissensions - implies strife or discord and stresses a division into factions. Sounds to me like what has happened to many Anabaptists. Perhaps the most fragmented group in church history. The city and vicinity where I live in southern Ontario has many Mennonite groups that at some point in time app...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Works of the flesh observations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 246
Works of the flesh observations
In Gal 5:19-21 NKJV Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
- Replies: 26
- Views: 896
Re: The Danger of Reactionary Theology
I believe it is a good thing our salvation and our rewards won't be judged someday on what other Christians believe is sinning and what is not sinning based on their interpretations of scripture. Jesus sure put the Pharisees straight with their high opinion of themselves and their religious ways. Th...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2490
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
I also don’t see it working to try to compose a church / school of people with wildly varying practices. It seems such a congregation lacks unity at a fundamental level. I don't know what you mean by wildly varying, but as I said earlier, there needs to be parameters of course. I'd rather be in a c...