Posted on 07/18/2008 6:46:18 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
If you aren’t redeemed according to the Baptists, you’re going to fry in hell for all of eternity. Nice message /s
*** “God will somehow understand in the end that we were pretty good people, and based on our overall behavior He should let us into heaven.” ***
Pelagius would be proud.
Nope. That’s according to Christ.
Does it truly hurt Christianity if Ronald Reagan used the words from a poem in memorializing national heroes? I can understand the greater point, but still...
I've got some news for you:
1) I'm not a Baptist.
2) If you aren’t redeemed, you’re going to fry in hell for all of eternity.
Amen. Being focused on the world is dangerous. Too many evangelicals see lost man as their primary focus, rather than Christ Jesus. This results in church becoming a haven for spiritually dead people, with the saints being droned into submission or departing for a true church. Worldlings invite other worldlings to entertaining event-driven religious meetings, all the while convincing one another that they are approved in the Lord. Spurgeon said, “If your religion does not make you holy it will damn you to hell.”
The church must first and foremost focus on the Lord. It’s primary mission on Earth is to disciple saints of God so they are equipped to go and proclaim Christ to those who are perishing.
But how else can we get the lost into the church!?! < sarc>
Has anyone out there actually thought about the possibility that the worldliness we are told to avoid might just mean during worship?
Ping
Not a Baptist message, but a Scriptural one.
Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is enternal life.
Romans 5:8 - But God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him "I am the way the truth and the life; no man cometh to the Father but by me."
Baptists, historically, have had to back-to-back distinctives that are noteworthy:
a) Individual soul liberty;
b) the priesthood of the believer.
Baptists who understand their Bibles and their heritage are not likely to make a statement that implies that there is any such thing as a Baptist redemption. Baptists don’t believe that they have any corner on redemption or salvation. They don’t believe that being a member of their churches is either pre-requisite to, or sustaining of, salvation. Baptists don’t believe that water baptism (by any mode) can save, can keep one saved, or contribute to salvation.
Baptists don’t believe in a “Baptist way” to Christ or to the soul’s salvation. They do believe that there is a Bible way, and that is a Person, Christ Himself in the virtue of His Blood Sacrifice (for our sins) and Resurrection (for our justification). (Romans 8:3; 4:25; etc.)
“If you aren’t redeemed according to the Baptists, you’re going to fry in hell for all of eternity. Nice message /s”
I think they actually read that somewhere...
Yes, just the other day when I attended a rock concert (Journey, Heart, and Cheap Trick) I was struck that the crowd was reacting much the same way as some of the worshippers I see at the new Evangelical Churches I attend. - - Enraptured, swaying back and forth, arms raised in the air.
I think we need to remember it isn't the music, but the Lord we worship.
You'd better believe it.
no, the doctrine didnt ‘come from the bible’, it came from Christ’s mouth to his apostles, they in turn preached it, and wrote in their letters to the various churches to their appointed bishops and priests to preach it....after that that one holy catholic and apostolic church preserved those writings and under the guide of the holy spirit, brought together the books that became the bible, and preserved that for future generations.
So what about people, past and present who have never had the opportunity to hear of Christ? Just suppose they have never ‘sinned’, and by their nature unkbnowingly abided by the 10 commandments? Are you telling me Jesus Christ would send them to fry in Hell?
I believe Jesus is Love, not vengence and hate.
Are you familiar with all 10 commandments?
Hmm...Where do you get that idea? It's not mentioned in the Scriptures anywhere that I can find.
It does? Please tell me where you find it.
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