Search results

I've always been impressed with the fact that when the earliest followers of Jesus were freshly filled with the Holy Spirit, as reported in Acts 2 and Acts 4, they were of one heart and one mind and there were no poor among them because they had all things common. So in answer to the OP "What...

Jesus proclaimed that the Kingdom of God is within our grasp (at hand) and that it is among us. Sadly most of us choose not to be a part of that Kingdom, we choose to keep our possessions rather than see that there are no poor among us (because we have all things common). Then we align ourselves...

I've never heard of Old Order Amish becoming Quaker. More commonly they drift into liberal and Protestantized strains of the Mennonites or evangelical Protestantism. There really are few commonalities between Quakerism and Anabaptism except at the most liberal end of each group.

Amish and Mennonites do not live communally, Hutterites do. You could not really be a part of an old order group (like the Old Order Amish) without living in proximity with other church members. As most Anabaptists generally practice some degree of "community", it is difficult to be a member...

You understand Anabaptism better than most Anabaptist.

What do you think the "basic core beliefs" of Anabaptism are?

All the things you mention are true. The bigger distinction is in the difference between how Protestants (including Baptists) view the scriptures and how the Anabaptist's view the scriptures. While most Baptists would claim to take the Words of Jesus and the rest of the New Testament scriptures...

It no longer exists and the owner of the forum is rather tight lipped about what happened to it, but it appears to not be coming back. There is a new forum being put together by the old moderator: http://forum.mennonet.com/

As an expression of a systematic theology, Anabaptist would not hold to any of the Solas. In principle, defined in their own terms (not Calvin's or Luther's or Augustine's), and modified by other "solas" they would hold to them all. So much of Protestant (and I include Baptists in this)...

The Hutterites, in their earliest days, put all of Jesus' words into practice. I expect there are a few groups that can claim the same, but they are probably too obscure and small ("Little flocks" as Jesus referred to his disciples) to draw much notice.

Anabaptists (and their modern descendants) would not likely be well acquainted with the term or concept of "Total Depravity". Only those who have come into contact with or have been side-tracked onto some strain of Protestantism would really be familiar with the theological vocabulary and...

It seems to me that, in fact, progressive churches have things precisely backwards believing that: "We welcome all, so God welcomes all."

Anabaptism is not a stricter, less worldly version of Protestantism. It is as fundamentally different from Protestantism as Protestantism is from Catholicism. To suggest that one could be “Anabaptist” and not be non-resistant would be like a Roman Catholic converting to a Baptist and still...

It seems in the very least to be a matter of simple idolatry, to make a solemn pledge to a piece of cloth. And to what state should followers of Jesus give their allegiance? the "republic for which it stands" or the Kingdom of God? And while it is a fine ideal to think of America as one nation...

"The teaching of the Lord has been given for the purpose of being put into practice"- Conrad Grebel

If you kill me or commit any violence aginst me, it does not matter what your intent was, I will not believe that you, or your God, actually love me.

In one Anabaptist church I was a part of they would say the hardest thing to repent of is your own goodness. In America it is considered honorable and good to serve in the military, to protect the nation against one’s enemies. But even when done compassionately the military must try to harm our...

The grandson of a Hutterite woman told me how she believed that the earth is flat. She believed it because the bible said so, and because it was obvious to her as she looked out across the Manitoba prairie. I respect her perspective - her worldview. It is consistent and sincere. Young...

Could you name specifically the groups and any leaders of the groups you are referring to? The only one's I know of are Oswald Glaidt and Andreas Fischer. The larger body of Anabaptists, including those who practiced voluntary poverty and community of goods, did not maintain a seventh day Sabbath.

There were a mere handful of "Seventh Day Anabaptists" and they turned from seventh day sabaterianism and were absorbed by other groups.