MennoNet.com

Menno even excommunicated the Swiss Brethren for not accepting his strict views on excommunication. MattY, I just want to say that thus sentence made me laugh out loud. Luther also "excommunicated" Zwingli and the reformed church in Geneva because they couldn't agree on the metaphysics at...

Neto brought up intriguing information in another thread: Another major difference is that the church governance in at least the MB conference is markedly different than that of any Swiss Brethren background congregation to which I have been exposed (admittedly, almost entirely Beach Amish-Mennonit...

I listened to this podcast episode recently, part of the History of the Christian Church podcast series by Lance Ralston. He talked about Pietism, with some interesting comments about where Pietists went too far. It goes along with what I have been thinking lately about the danger of reactionary the...

It seems to me that the *description* of early church baptisms in the book of Acts - both Jew and Gentile - is that they were baptized immediately upon confession of faith. But there is no *prescription* for either immediate baptism or a time of preparation/instruction prior to baptism, which, accor...

Too much is being made of types and shadows here. You can't just take one verse and build an entire theology off of it. That usually results in taking the verse out of context. Hebrews 10:5-7 is a quote from Psalm 40:6-8. The writer of Hebrews is quoting the Greek Septuagint. It's not the original H...

Does MennoNet log you out frequently for no reason? Have you ever typed up an entire comment, multiple paragraphs, etc., and hit "Preview" only for MennoNet to demand that you log in? And after you do, everything you typed has disappeared and can't be recovered, including by trying to go b...

Jesus started the Church with His Apostles. The Holy Spirit then was poured out on them and the church began and it was said long before Constantine by Origen that the Apostles themselves taught to baptize infants. This was not a late invention. Certainly the ancient Church can go make a Scriptural...

It's fine to oppose Zionism politically, if you can do so without dipping into conspiracy theories about how the "Jews rule the world." :roll: :roll: But anti-Zionist conspiracy theories are inevitably antisemitic. Of course, a deeper question is why the objection is “anti-semitism” as op...

:hi5 If Jews controlled the world, you'd think things would be going better for Jews historically, or currently. Things are going pretty well for them right now, wouldn’t you say? Palestinians aren’t doing so well in Gaza or in the West Bank, though. Not really. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/polit...

:blah: :blah: This is disgraceful. Why do conspiracy theorists always land on "the Jews"? :? :? :roll: :roll: If Jews controlled the world, you'd think things would be going better for Jews historically, or currently. It's fine to oppose Zionism politically, if you can do so without dippin...