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1 Cor 2:2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

1 Cor 1:20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling...

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There are two paradoxical teachings in the bible regarding the possibility of Christians choosing to reject the salvation that was once theirs in Christ and falling away from the faith.

Let's pretend that we are listing verses in two columns. In the first column we will list verses that indicate that God will preserve his children to the end. (All scripture quotations in this post are from the ESV Bible.)

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There is ample evidence in scripture, and little dispute, that God has elected and predestined those to to be saved whom he has given the ability to believe in Christ's complete payment, once and for all, for all their sins on the cross. Here are a few of the scripture references to that effect.

There are, however, those who claim that the bible also teaches that God has predestined others to damnation, in effect creating them solely for destruction.

There is scant evidence,...

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What is baptism?

I was a Baptist for forty-some years. When asked, the boilerplate answer given to this question was something like "Our first act of obedience to God" or "A public profession of faith in Jesus Christ".

Trouble is, for being very Berean in their approach to doctrine, Baptists totally miss what the bible plainly says about baptism, and instead spend vats of ink, decades of time, and billions of electrons trying to make the bible mean something...

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I was raised a Baptist and all my family are still in that church. Over the last 20 years or so I had begun to question and have doubts about some points of Baptist theology. At times it seemed as though they were using elaborate work-arounds to try to make the bible fit their theology instead of making their theology fit the bible. Sometimes I thought that it was as if they were consciously trying to make the bible mean something different than what it plainly says even when it says the same thing...

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