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Trying to move away from the discussion of nonresistance and the Trinity, and back to the four categories in my original post. Fundamentalists and liberals tend toward opposite errors. Liberals deny the existence of any first-tier issues, and make everything a third-tier issue; the result is doctrin...

Basically, I think I have brothers and sisters in evangelical and Protestant churches, and I'm not going to relegate them to "the world" or "the ungodly", or act like Mennonites are better or more godly than they are. It is easy to judge someone or feel superior to them; but that...

I think killing people is sort of a big deal. Unlike a molehill. I thought, surely I don't have to add again that I think nonresistance important. But apparently I do. I never said it is a molehill. I've had devotions at church about how Isaac and Joseph were types of NT nonresistance/love of enemi...

Consider two hypothetical men. One man is a member of a nonresistant church, nods firmly when his pastors speak of it, would never defend himself with a gun, and teaches his children the same. But he resents his neighbor for an old dispute about the boundary line on their property; he gets angry at ...

The command to love God and love your neighbor is explicit and required. Love your enemy and don't resist evil is as well. The prohibition of serving in the military, or in law enforcement, or in political positions that have to do with the law enforcement or military? That's implicit - it follows f...

No I agree. Because it was much earlier, and not by a council, but by teaching passed down from the beginning. Are you appealing to oral tradition? Or some specific writing? I don’t see the Trinity in the early church writings. I see things that could be alluding to it, but the same could be said o...

Yup.

https://courses.washington.edu/hist112/ ... 0FAITH.htm

Sixth. concerning the sword: The sword is ordained of God outside the perfection of Christ. It punishes and puts to death the wicked, and guards and protects the good.

Without looking it up, I recognize the quote from Hubmaier on the role of the state, because it's actually from the Schleitheim Confession. Perhaps GPT messed up? Unless they are dependent on the same source, or one of them is actually using the other's wording about something that they agree on.

I don’t believe in the trinity. One could ask the question, when did the church decide on the co-deity of the Holy Spirit? I’ll give you a hint, it wasn’t the first council Constantine called for. No I agree. Because it was much earlier, and not by a council, but by teaching passed down from the be...

When I think of the Trinity at the basic and fundamental level, I don't think of a word, or of technical details, or doctrinal development in explicating it. Like, you don't need to know all those things. I'm willing to discuss and defend the details, but the core of the Trinity is very significant ...