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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Israel is Babylon the Great
- Replies: 121
- Views: 2613
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Where are the Anabaptists in the UK?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 466
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 11
- Views: 294
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2285
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 &...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2285
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......
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Monkeypox
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1710
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2285
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1287
Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
And distant leaders are likely to be perceived as illegitimate, since they have no relationship with the people they purport to lead. Unless hierarchy is built into your model of church, like the Anglicans, Catholics, Orthodox, Methodists, and some Anabaptists. In our circles, the Bishop is by once...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2285
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right? Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job. How long did you attend a Nationwide ch...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2285
Re: Churches, Dealerships, and Franchises
IIRC they have restrictions on employment that even Eastern does not have, right? Yeah, I couldn’t work as a nurse or any academics. This would effectively leave me with untrained manual labor. That won’t pay the bills unless I’m being given a generosity job. Yeah. Do you know what their issue is w...