Any religion that bans drinking and dancing is not a religion but a cult. The Bible allow for both, but baptists think they are better then God. They find out that God won’t be mocked. Those fires are going to be uncomfortable for the Baptist’s.
That’s funny. My church certainly doesn’t object to dancing.
Though when I drink a Budweiser I tend not to tell anyone at church. Except for the guys I have a Budweiser with from church :D
Pray for them, not criticize them. Baptists are part of the Body of CHRIST.
Baptists, it’s said, won’t have sex standing up for fear someone’ll accuse ‘em of dancing.
You certainly have a very mistaken opinion of The Southern Baptist Church. Perhaps you should read the by-laws of one of it’s churches. That being said I am praying for you and your family.
What does God think about liars?
I’ll never forget the day, long ago, when my little Southern Baptist grandson said to me, “Grandma, you are going to Hell because you wear jeans and drink beer.”
Of course he was parroting his redneck blowhard father, who was and still is a Baptist pastor.
BTW, this little boy grew up to rebel, join the navy, serve four years in the submarine service, sailed the seven seas, had fun while in port, and married a wonderful Catholic girl!
Not sure baptists are real high on the cult-like list. I can think of some other denominations that seem much ore obsessed with....weird practices.
I’ve left the SBC because the SBC has left me. And this passage explains why:
“The overly used and fallacious claim that Jesus spoke mildly about sexual transgression and instead reserved his rage at powerful and rich church leaders is tiresome enough. But it is downright ridiculous coming from a well-off megapastor who chums around with the rich and powerful...Greear cannot give permission to someone else to sin against God in the pulpit”
I’m sick of SBC presidents who have gone wobbly on sin so they can suck up to the media. They got so busing “seeking” tares that the tares have taken over the garden.
A Catholic Church near me has a beer garden every year when they celebrate Octoberfest. Kinda odd that they encourage drunkeness. Nevertheless, I’d be interested in what you think it takes to be saved.
Neither a Nazerite nor a Baptist mock God for offering themselves as a living sacrifice to serve Him. Only if the individual is living a pretense life in the pursuit of vanity rather than to honor God are the “lifestyle prohibitions” a negative in any way.
I am hard core patriotic, conservative, and independent Bible/Baptist, who bleeds red, white, and blue. I don’t drink, and have been sober since I was four.
And you really don’t want me dancing, after a life of service in, and related to
“dancing” in SOCOM and the IC.
I believe in the work of that Christ alone (that Nazarene) for my salvation, and that my salvation was truly an act of His love, His payment, His mercy, and His grace in my heart.
I will admit, before I was His, I was His enemy, wanted my own way, to be my own boss, to be god of my own realm, and I was truly blind. Even my man-made, and man motivated efforts to do good were unmasked to be motivated by desire to elevate self. My righteousness was very much “filthy rags”. My righteousness was an effort to show God I was good without His horrific and gruesome payment for my son at the cross, and I didn’t need Him. (It was my humanistic pride).
I don’t even believe a human is capable of understanding the perfect righteous and holiness of God, as Scripture teaches in 1 John 1, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all... And man loved darkness rather than light, because man desired to do evil.”
I know we are all very much sinners, but anyone would be greatly mistaken, who believes sexual/sensual dancing is all good in God’s eyes.
I have always dreamed of being able to ball-room dance with the most beautiful elegant, and intelligent woman God ever made, my wife. But I was never given this chance.
I believe, and greatly wish I had not failed to practice Ephesians 5, which commands, “Husband’s, love your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave [His life] Himself for her.”
While I have failed my wife and family, and I don’t drink or dance, does this make me a member of a cult?