Explain Baptists to me!!!

[ballmode]

Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

 

[dartworth]

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[SandInMyShoes]

Since my girlfriend of 3 months is a Calvinist, I can offer a little bit of limited insight... Free will baptists (typically based off of Arminius' doctrine) believe in man's free will to choose his destiny--follow God, or follow the devil.

"5 point" (or most) Calvinists believe God is in control of everything, including your salvation. You are predestined to heaven or hell, and you can only follow God as if you're one of the ones he chose to be saved, and hope you really are one of the saved.

Pretty much all baptists tend to fall into one camp or the other. Southern baptists are typically of the free will flavor.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Baptists stand in water. They dunk people under water and then smack their head while chanting things.

John was one of the most experienced and respected.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm Lutheran too. Explain Missouri Synod vs. ALCA to me.

 

[evident]

baptists = evangelical meaning they have no sacraments (except baptism, but it's a little bit different) vs lutheran which i think is a sacramental religion, similar to catholics and episcopalians.

baptists believe that faith in christ alone will bring them to salvation,, and reject infant baptism (you have to be "of age" to be baptized. what this is, can vary depending on how the people around you feel your maturity is. i don't know what lutherans believe in particulary though


please, let this not devolve into a "religion is gay" or a "my religion is better than yours thread"

 

[Fenixgoon]

eh, it's all christianity

 

[KK]

they're closet drinkers.

 

[ballmode]

thanks guys

 

[EGGO]

Stay far away from the Pentecostals...my experience with them are the types that get slapped in the head by the pastor and faint because of the power of god.

 

[preslove]

My Grandfather was a baptist and my uncle & aunt are methodists. I went to a methodist church with all of them and they made some reference to the fact that methodists only sing a certain number of lines in their hymnals, while baptists sing all of them. This made them laugh & me confused

 

[sandorski]

Lutherans=Boring..............Baptists=Batshit Insane!

 

[dennilfloss]

If I were to convert from Catholicism, I think the main candidate would be High Church Anglicanism.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: ballmode
Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family are baptists. Basically, they are racists, they hate everyone who isn't white...and baptist...and a die hard conservative. They are the holiest of the holier than thou.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ballmode
Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family are baptists. Basically, they are racists, they hate everyone who isn't white...and baptist...and a die hard conservative. They are the holiest of the holier than thou.

You're a fucking idiot considering many, many Baptists are southern Baptists, and BLACK. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, at all.

Also, Baptists don't chant, like someone said about when they are Baptized.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: evident
baptists = evangelical meaning they have no sacraments (except baptism, but it's a little bit different) vs lutheran which i think is a sacramental religion, similar to catholics and episcopalians.

baptists believe that faith in christ alone will bring them to salvation,, and reject infant baptism (you have to be "of age" to be baptized. what this is, can vary depending on how the people around you feel your maturity is. i don't know what lutherans believe in particulary though


please, let this not devolve into a "religion is gay" or a "my religion is better than yours thread"

This guy is the closest to the basics.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ballmode
Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family are baptists. Basically, they are racists, they hate everyone who isn't white...and baptist...and a die hard conservative. They are the holiest of the holier than thou.

You're a fucking idiot considering many, many Baptists are southern Baptists, and BLACK. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, at all.

Also, Baptists don't chant, like someone said about when they are Baptized.

I was talking about my grandparents fool.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ballmode
Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family are baptists. Basically, they are racists, they hate everyone who isn't white...and baptist...and a die hard conservative. They are the holiest of the holier than thou.

You're a fucking idiot considering many, many Baptists are southern Baptists, and BLACK. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, at all.

Also, Baptists don't chant, like someone said about when they are Baptized.

I was talking about my grandparents fool.

Then you need to learn how to use pronouns.

grandparents should have been used after baptists if you were referring to the grandparents. Your use of the pronoun pointed to Baptists.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ballmode
Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family are baptists. Basically, they are racists, they hate everyone who isn't white...and baptist...and a die hard conservative. They are the holiest of the holier than thou.

You're a fucking idiot considering many, many Baptists are southern Baptists, and BLACK. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, at all.

Also, Baptists don't chant, like someone said about when they are Baptized.

I was talking about my grandparents fool.

Then you need to learn how to use pronouns.

grandparents should have been used after baptists if you were referring to the grandparents. Your use of the pronoun pointed to Baptists.

Yeah, that was actually intentional.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
I'm Lutheran too. Explain Missouri Synod vs. ALCA to me.

ROFL! I haven't been active in many, many years, but IIRC, there used to be several different synods to the Lutheran Church, (a couple "merged" to form the ACLA) and the Missouri Synod was considered to be the most hard-core, most conservative, closest to the original Catholic theology of them all...

/me is/was LCMS.

http://camassia.notfrisco2.com/archives/003092.html

http://www.google.com/search?s...S203&q=lutheran+synods

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: ballmode
Please in a nutshell!!!

Cherry on top

My grandparents on my Dad's side of the family are baptists. Basically, they are racists, they hate everyone who isn't white...and baptist...and a die hard conservative. They are the holiest of the holier than thou.

You're a fucking idiot considering many, many Baptists are southern Baptists, and BLACK. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, at all.

Also, Baptists don't chant, like someone said about when they are Baptized.

I was talking about my grandparents fool.

Then you need to learn how to use pronouns.

grandparents should have been used after baptists if you were referring to the grandparents. Your use of the pronoun pointed to Baptists.

Yeah, that was actually intentional.

...yeah, ok :roll:

=)