[RnMomof7]

**Calvinism has no place in Baptists Churches, it is antithesis to our heritage of "soul liberty"! **




Someone should have told the authors of the 1644 and 1689 confessions..both of which were calvinist..seems the Arminians stole the church and are whinning now that it seeks its historic roots

http://www.mtsbc.org/old_baptist_documents1.htm

[FreeRep]

Hi, RnMomof7. I agree we need to get back SBC roots, and I am no Arminian, just worried about Church evangelism.

[Gamecock]

Hiya Mom! (BTW: RN=Reformed Nurse? ;-))

Two great "Calvinist" quotes by a guy that Baptists love to quote:

1. "I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will."

2. "The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Peace unto you <><