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At this point I think there seem to be different working definitions of what the doctrine of the trinity is; specifically, what claims are necessary for any given description to be considered "the doctrine of the Trinity". Maybe this was done in the early pages of this thread, but if so, m...

.... But, back to Dordrecht: "one ... God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" sounds at least implicitly trinitarian to me. But I think Josh is right that they were not trying to distinguish their beliefs on that subject from the rest of Christianity, nor to rehash the historic arguments, b...

I agree this is an Anabaptist forum, but- because the Anabaptists were not there when all of this took place and focused on their own doctrines in writing up their particular 'confessions of the faith'- that if a question comes up to try to understand the Trinity, why this doctrine was articulated,...

So Menno Simons was not the only early anabaptist who slipped up and went beyond Scripture. (Referring to certain elements of his doctrine of the incarnation, that Mary contributed nothing to the child she bore, Jesus, the Son of God.) All the more important that we do not do the same. (I would excu...

Personally, I would consider the context to suggest he is talking about the human experience rather than more concrete things such as technology, perhaps. Or perhaps I should say the human experience from his perspective. I would agree with this, and just add that this is a book that should be take...

It's not that men should not have tried to 'define' it, the Church had an understanding that Arius tried to undermine and change. Therefore HE is the one who was being a heretic- to say something different, than what Christ had said about Himself and the Apostles passed down. I know that God wants ...

This tract on divorce is sometimes attributed to Michael Sattler. It was part of a sammelband, a collection of Swiss-Brethren pamphlets that included the earliest known printing of the Schleitlheim Brotherly Articles. This translation was done by J.C. Wenger ans was published in MQR (April 1947):11...

.... Strangely, those who hold strongly to the inerrancy of scripture are the ones who also stand the strongest behind this construct, which, as I said, is entirely manmade. .... This is an interesting observation. I remember when I was being considered for membership in Wycliffe Bible Translators....

Chris wrote: ...we [do] not ... have any of the common items worth stealing.

Hand tools & coin collections used to be big theft items, at least where I grew up. (Oklahoma has a lot of pawn shops - most every small town has at least one, often two or more. I don't see them too often here in Ohio.)

I think it's negative for our witness to the world if we demand strange ways to speak. Worldly people know what foul language is vs not foul language. But words like "kids" aren't in that. Ultimately, if we want to use language to separate ourselves, some Anabaptists (a majority in the US...