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by Judas Maccabeus
Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Monkeypox
Replies: 47
Views: 1782

Re: Monkeypox

2024 Mpox outbreak reported in Cleveland area after 9 cases reported: What is the disease? https://www.aol.com/mpox-outbreak-reported-cleveland-area-174349414.html?guccounter=1 M.pox vaccine https://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?t=4908 Relax. Considering what the demographic group where almost a...
by Judas Maccabeus
Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Replies: 118
Views: 2462

Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises

Flawed as the conservative Mennonite community may be, the finances, emotions, and time invested in trying to help newcomers and their families assimilate into the community stands as a testament to a desire that the new community members will share in the cultural capital of the community. I'm not...
by Judas Maccabeus
Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:22 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?
Replies: 14
Views: 531

Re: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?

I love the channel Ready to Harvest. This was a neat and thorough video looking at the very very small number of anabaptist church groups in the UK today. https://youtu.be/BJoTjDCAUDk?feature=shared There are bruderhof comunities in the UK I know. They fled there as well when escaping the Nazis. AF...
by Judas Maccabeus
Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Israel is Babylon the Great
Replies: 122
Views: 3176

Re: Israel is Babylon the Great

Peace to you. First of all, this is not anti-Semitism/racism. The Bible itself does not teach racism. When the Bible speaks negatively about Jews, it refers to Jews who are not Christians, not ethnic Jews in general. After much research, I found out that according to the Bible, Israel is Babylon th...
by Judas Maccabeus
Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?
Replies: 14
Views: 531

Re: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?

I have long been under the impression that there have never been large numbers of Anabaptist Christians in the UK... Unless you count the Plymouth Brethren. Nothing against them, but while they would technically rebaptize anybody baptized as an infant and anybody who wasn't baptized by immersion, f...
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
Replies: 11
Views: 332

Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills

In the first couple centuries of the church, they had the "rule of faith". (The "Apostles' Creed" is actually significantly newer - from the 400s, 500s, or so). There were plenty of other important things that they talked about, sometimes disagreeing, sometimes agreeing; but wit...
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:58 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Replies: 118
Views: 2462

Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises

There are many things...from straight cuts to teetotaling to no ties to fundamentalist creeds, etc etc... do you think that any group of people are absolutely unchanged after 150 years? All groups adapt and define. Controversy forces definition. I would suggest that what you are misidentifying as &...
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Replies: 118
Views: 2462

Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises

Vanishingly few people are in the churches their grandparents or great grandparents are in. That applies to basically every plain ordnung out there including Eastern, Pilgrim, Groffdale, Weaverland, etc...none of which existed 140 or so years ago... I don't know what you are seeing that I am not......
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Monkeypox
Replies: 47
Views: 1782

Re: Monkeypox

2024 Mpox outbreak reported in Cleveland area after 9 cases reported: What is the disease? https://www.aol.com/mpox-outbreak-reported-cleveland-area-174349414.html?guccounter=1 M.pox vaccine https://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?t=4908 Relax. Considering what the demographic group where almost a...
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
Replies: 118
Views: 2462

Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises

I am not convinced that the movement in Anabaptist churches is primarily driven by "what we are allowed to do." That is a factor...however their are larger sociological and ecclesiological issues at play I think that are sector wide in the western/protestant churches that have folks lacki...