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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: The two ways of being a Christian
- Replies: 1
- Views: 70
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 ...
- 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...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: How vengeful are you?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 350
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Have you had a COVID-19 vaccination?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1458
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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Written Word
- Topic: AW comment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 443
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...