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by PetrChelcicky
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: The two ways of being a Christian
Replies: 1
Views: 19

The two ways of being a Christian

If one views salvation as primarily involving personal absolution and the "finished work" (which by the way is not a biblical term) of Jesus by grace alone through faith...through the lever of penal substitutionary atonement, for an ultimate futuristic, eschatalogical salvation, then the ...
by PetrChelcicky
Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Lent and Ash Wednesday
Replies: 57
Views: 1238

Re: Lent and Ash Wednesday

As for ostentatively working in order to pique your neighbours: Here in the Rhineland, for historical political reasons there often was a strictly Catholic village and a strictly Protestant village next to it. And it was often told that the Protestant farmers ostentatively worked in the fields at Co...
by PetrChelcicky
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: How vengeful are you?
Replies: 10
Views: 349

Re: How vengeful are you?

I don't think that I am "vengeful". I am irascible and on very rare occasions I have decided to let my rage flow. But that was more a rational decision. On the other hand, against Steve, I must confess that the opposite of vengefulness is in my case not something noble like "forgiving...
by PetrChelcicky
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Nonviolence?
Replies: 23
Views: 775

Re: Nonviolence?

As for non-resistance I suppose that it is a matter of personal judgment. At least everyone ought to consider if his kind of resistance makes a violent escalation more probable or less probable. Nobody should retreat into an attitude of "well, I did not use violence myself, and if my opponent r...
by PetrChelcicky
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Nonviolence?
Replies: 23
Views: 775

Re: Nonviolence?

Pacifism encourages a peaceful protest that I think is inconsistent with true Anabaptist traditions and theology. An opinion, but one I think is accurate and points at how Anabaptist thought has been corrupted by it’s more liberal members. Pacifism and political activism are two completely separate...
by PetrChelcicky
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Have you had a COVID-19 vaccination?
Replies: 61
Views: 1455

Re: Have you had a COVID-19 vaccination?

Accepted vaccination, because my bosses demanded that (had to give proof). Didn't get Covid. No opinion about the efforts of the vaccination. But I am rather miffed by our government which ignored the fact the vaccination is an intrusion into a basic right and as such can only be done with the conse...
by PetrChelcicky
Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:37 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Lent and Ash Wednesday
Replies: 57
Views: 1238

Lent and Ash Wednesday

I am somewhat surprised that in "Anabaptist World", Lent and Ash Wednesday are treated as common Christian traditions. I have been raised in a strictly Protestant region, in which only the Catholics came back at Ash Wednesday with an Ash cross on their forehead - it was a Catholic particul...
by PetrChelcicky
Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:12 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: The first Christian Church was Jewish
Replies: 43
Views: 943

Re: The first Christian Church was Jewish

The interesting thing is in my eyes the upcoming of Phariseeism (the church as a community of the just or saint people) and, as its counterpart, the Jesus movement (the church as a community of sinners). That is a division which needs to be kept up, even if it is uncomfortable for Anabaptists.
by PetrChelcicky
Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:04 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: The first Christian Church was Jewish
Replies: 43
Views: 943

Re: The first Christian Church was Jewish

I don't think that the bible, as a whole, CAN be the foundation of any religion. You cannot copy all role models at the same time. The book developed over nearly thousand years.
by PetrChelcicky
Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:34 am
Forum: Written Word
Topic: AW comment
Replies: 4
Views: 439

AW comment

I have decided to pack my sporadic comments of AW ("Anabaptist World") articles into one regular topic, commenting articles I find particularly obnoxious, disturbing and absurd. (In former times I have written letters-to-the-editors, but in the meantime the editors have decided that they d...