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What are your three most significant objections to Anabaptism?

barnhart wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:38 am What are your three most significant objections to Anabaptism?

First I want to say I admire so much about the people and their pursuit of pious life unconfirmed to the world

1. In my studies, I do not agree with some of their interpretations (I do agree with others where the differences are.

2. Too skeptical of Hy Spirits involvement & gifts. I love the focus on Jesus but find focus on what we believe about the Holy Spirits role to be much less in Anabaptism

3. Too difficult to determine a sect for a seeker as they are so divided & the emphasis on making those certain sect divisions even more distinct by regulating dress rules. Covering types

I grew up protestant and as I talk to friends now the biggest thing is non resistance- whether it is applying to war or an intruder in your home, just the whole idea of not fighting back, turning the other cheek. It was a new concept to me when I married my husband.
You get into discussions about pro life and once you finish talking about abortion- that is it for them and not only is it a new thought but many are appalled by it. The first argument they will bring up will be but what about WWII.

Not sure of other issues.

How do you justify Christians taking part in killing in self-defense and war given the teachings of Jesus and Paul regarding love for one's enemies and not resisting evildoers or taking vengeance?

Are there Mainline Protestants here to answer these questions? Are there Evangelicals here that believe in the justified use of violence?

I am no longer mainline protestant and actually you have more mainline protestants that are pacifists as opposed to non resistant then you have either in the Evangelical circles. Many of my friends are Evangelical and they talk about just wars and you end up talking across each other and getting no where.
So I hear just wars, defending your family even if not yourself and many other thoughts tho no biblical back up.
Many say that the part in the Sermon on the Mount that is related to turning the other cheek, loving your enemy - nonresistance - is hyperbole or for a future kingdom not now. And you get no more.

Several of us converted… but I don’t know we fit to answer questions.

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