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FWIIW, this is why I often refrain from. These types of threads. What is the point? No one came here trying to change your groups’ views on marriage. Someone asks or brings up other groups. So you do not agree with the Catholic approach, practice, or reasoning. Got it. No surprise there. You are not...

Off the top of my head, I have no idea. I would thin’ they think so. But since they (and I) are concerned with Sola Scriptura why does that matter? You believe in annulments too. If I put a gun to your head, and tell your daughter I am going to shoot you unless she says “I do” while someone goes thr...

Yes, a marriage can be annulled, which I agree with. Now, does that mean I believe all annulments granted by the RCC were proper? No. Do I look stupid? Many institutions make mistakes. Far too many annulments in recent Catholic Church history are probably wrongly given. But that does not change the ...

I am always perplexed in these conversations how folks use the term divorce when what they often seem to be saying is remarriage. Just as with marriage, we oversimplify or skip over the reality in 21st century america that marriage is both a religious and legal reality. I do not think the Bible forb...

But in reality, are not most of the people using the term Anabaptist equally avoiding discipleship?
By the numbers. I do not mean the old order, or conservative Mennonites or even many in other settings, but to my eye, rank and file LMC or what’s left of Franconia are hardly practicing discipleship?

Sure you can. I am not suggesting one should not learn all the scriptures but do you think first century gentiles converting to. Hristianity were well schooled in the OT?

So I will put out something a bit controversial. I remember discussing the seven year cycle Rod & Staff use to cover the Bible in their Sunday School materials and saying it made no sense to me for it puts equal weight on all the Bible. I think all the Bible has merit, but not equally in terms o...

JohnH, you define abandoning Anabaptism as apostasy but you were not always Anabaptist I think.
Is that correct?


If true, and you yourself have been a convert (maybe more than once?), maybe throwing around that word is a bit, well, unwise?

Not me, said the little red hen

No time, I am praying for souls in purgatory

See, I was the one that didn’t want to bring Catholicism into it. You made me and look at the mess. On a serious note, somebody explain to me, given the vagaries of the human mind ( there are people convinced they are Napoleon:::the general and not the pastry) anyone can state “I am saved”. I am fin...