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What about "Free Wheel Baptists"? Heard about them as a child. Thought they all rode unicycles!
I have been around many Baptists and still know nothing about Baptists -- they are so diverse. It is hard to nail down any one definition for any one Baptist group, even though they use the same terminology.
All Baptists believe in being born again, of the Living Spirit, and in water baptism by immersion for believers.
All Baptists believe in the Triune YHWH.
All Baptists believe the Word of God is inerrent in its original manuscripts, and that Revelation is the last Word from God the Word by inspiration to man.
All Baptists believe in the priesthood of the believer.
Beyond that, the reason there are many groups is that people differ and have the freedom to differ, in the body of Christ, and to gather together with like minded believers.
None of the Baptists believe in polygamy or in Joe Smith as a prophet of God, nor in any prophet of God after Jesus, in that sense. So Baptists are not like Mormons in their differences, and I believe that is the OP question.
No new different books after Revelation, and no polygamy for NT Christians is allowed who will hold any office in the Church of Christ, for a man must be the husband of one wife to be a leader in the Church of Christ.
All Baptists believe in being born again, of the Living Spirit, and in water baptism by immersion for believers.
All Baptists believe in the Triune YHWH.
All Baptists believe the Word of God is inerrent in its original manuscripts, and that Revelation is the last Word from God the Word by inspiration to man.
All Baptists believe in the priesthood of the believer.
Beyond that, the reason there are many groups is that people differ and have the freedom to differ, in the body of Christ, and to gather together with like minded believers.
None of the Baptists believe in polygamy or in Joe Smith as a prophet of God, nor in any prophet of God after Jesus, in that sense. So Baptists are not like Mormons in their differences, and I believe that is the OP question.
No new different books after Revelation, and no polygamy for NT Christians is allowed who will hold any office in the Church of Christ, for a man must be the husband of one wife to be a leader in the Church of Christ.
I may be wrong - but I don't think that the question was are Mormons and Baptists alike. It was that people assume that all sects of LDS are one group just like people think all Baptist denominations are the same. She was trying to understand the difference in the Baptist sects because she had never thought of that before. But I could be wrong - I don't mean to speak for someone else - but I think you misunderstood the question.
I may be wrong - but I don't think that the question was are Mormons and Baptists alike. It was that people assume that all sects of LDS are one group just like people think all Baptist denominations are the same. She was trying to understand the difference in the Baptist sects because she had never thought of that before. But I could be wrong - I don't mean to speak for someone else - but I think you misunderstood the question.
I think the OP sought to compare differences in Baptist groups with differences in Mormon groups, so as to say that just because one is of Mormon fundamentalist groups who still practice polygamy they should not be compared to Mormon groups who have stopped polygamy, by seeing what divides Baptist groups, to compare.
I think the OP sought to compare differences in Baptist groups with differences in Mormon groups, so as to say that just because one is of Mormon fundamentalist groups who still practice polygamy they should not be compared to Mormon groups who have stopped polygamy, by seeing what divides Baptist groups, to compare.
I agree. I thought in your last paragraph you were pointing out the differences bewteen Baptists and Mormons. That's all.
None of the Baptists believe in polygamy or in Joe Smith as a prophet of God, nor in any prophet of God after Jesus, in that sense. So Baptists are not like Mormons in their differences, and I believe that is the OP question.
No new different books after Revelation, and no polygamy for NT Christians is allowed who will hold any office in the Church of Christ, for a man must be the husband of one wife to be a leader in the Church of Christ.
I believe you missed my point entirely, or maybe you just figured this was as good an opportunity as any to share your views on Mormonism. Nobody else seemed to think this was a thread about Mormonism; I wonder why you did.
I believe you missed my point entirely, or maybe you just figured this was as good an opportunity as any to share your views on Mormonism. Nobody else seemed to think this was a thread about Mormonism; I wonder why you did.
I think I answered according to the OP and your stated reason. I'm sorry if I gave more than you wanted, and I hoped I was helpful.
Since the different Baptist fellowships can be googled why did you even ask???
BTW, I don't know if you are aware, but Baptist Churches are not organized in a way that there are men somewhere making the decisions for what the many associated Churches must believe or follow, rather they associate in fellowships because they are like-minded. When a mind is not like, new groups form, and so the Church increases, overall, with no one the worse.
See, in Christianity, the Head of the Church is Jesus. All earthly Churches are just local bodies of the One Church, and they can differ in points, but not in essentials of the One Faith, and they can fellowship worldwide in the body of Christ.
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... The reason I asked is that I attended a conference a couple of weeks ago. It was not sponsored by my the LDS Church, but was primarily intended for LDS people. One of the speakers, LDS himself, and a public opinion pollster, talked about a nationwide public opinion poll done recently in which 1000 people were asked questions about the LDS Church. He said the vast many of them make no distinction (or else a very fuzzy distinction) between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the more than 150 splinter groups that have grown out of it, some of which still practice polygamy, etc. He said, "They do the same thing to us that we do to other religions. How many of you make a distinction between, say, a Southern Baptist and an American Baptist?" I realized that I don't. To me, a Baptist is a Baptist. So, I figured I'd try to find out what the differences are.
I think I answered according to the OP and your stated reason. I'm sorry if I gave more than you wanted, and I hoped I was helpful.
Since the different Baptist fellowships can be googled why did you even ask???
Maybe I wanted the input from forum members. Ever think of that?
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See, in Christianity, the Head of the Church is Jesus. All earthly Churches are just local bodies of the One Church, and they can differ in points, but not in essentials of the One Faith, and they can fellowship worldwide in the body of Christ.
Yeah, but those "essentials" can be a pretty big "gotcha"!
I'm getting such objective answers. I should have known.
One starts with American and one starts with Southern. Since Christ was very regionally oriented, these two groups divided up the land and took charge of their designated region. But doesn't Southern overlap American? Okay, that can't be right. Never mind.
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