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Wayne, the rules clearly state that we can't reveal personally identifable information about ourselves or other users. That's why Debbie blotted out any information that could lead someone to identify her. It sounds to me that you are trying to trap me into violating the rules so you can have...

Wayne, why would her obit be in the Tribune Chronicle? Your negativity is just too much. Even when she's dead, you're still harassing her.

I'm afraid it's true. I'm at Zi's house right now helping her family get it ready to put on the market. Zi was very nice to me more than once. I met her here and we hit it off as friends, and when I needed a place to go to get away from the pressures of medical school for a while, she let...

Look up some of the older threads. This has already been discussed quite a lot in this forum and in the Baptist forum.

We could discuss it by PM, I guess. Mods, is having this kind of discussion allowed through PMing?

The Amish are here?

Most of my Amish relatives have cell phones. They charge them in the barn, where they are required to have electric service to run the milk coolers, or in the wood shop, where they use electricity to run the saws, planes and other power tools, or they charge them at their family's restaurant or...

Totally not true. Each man still had to go before his draft board and defend why he should be granted CO status, and even then, many were turned down. In my present church, there are five men who have been lifelong Anabaptists who were drafted into WW2 and Vietnam. Their applications for CO...

Since it is against the rules to discuss any negatives of a denomination, I would guess this thread will be repeatedly reported by Wayne, and then closed down. That happened to three threads in the recent past.

You take every disagreement as a personal attack Wayne. That's why everyone else has dropped out of this "discussion." Good luck and see ya around.

With so much negativity being brought in by a few surly people, I thought it would be good for us to start a thread that would bring us together in unity. I thought we could share something we are happy about! I'm happy because my aunt, who was near death for three weeks, is getting better...

I haven't either. I, like others who have tried to participate in this thread, have been trying to amend Wayne's statement based on what be believe and observe, and Wayne is unwilling to accept those amendments. Whenever someone makes a suggestion, he shoots it down because it doesn't jibe...

Yeah, right. Read back over your earlier posts and look at how they read. It is apparent to me and to others in this forum that you are looking for a definition that will exclude those who don't agree with your very narrow definition of Anabaptism. If it were not so, you would be more open...

The reason Wayne started this thread is to create standard by which the Anabaptist "sheep" can be separated from the non-Anabaptist "goats." So although you didn't know it, you have been discussing who should belong to this forum.

That's interesting because I work at an inner city Mennonite mission at lot and it's brought up all the time. You don't really believe that believing in Christ and striving to obey his commandments will lead to salvation, do you?

Excellent thought Celtic! When the early Anabaptists were writing their confessions of faith, they weren't defining what it meant to be Anabaptist, they were defining what it meant to be Christian. All this endless arguing about who is and who isn't, who should be and who shouldn't, the...

I have to wonder if when we stand before God when it is out time, if we won't be ashamed of how much time we spent arguing about who does and who doesn't belong in this forum and how little time we spent actually being the hands and feet of Christ to the world.

True. Some established Anabaptist groups have adopted evangelical modernism. But that in itself is an attribute of Anabaptism. Conservative Anabaptism is no more the "true" or "original" Anabaptism than mainstream Anabaptism is. Anabaptism isn't one line unbroken in thought, teaching...

Thanks tulc. :)

I'm always amazed by your ability to read something that isn't there. You have an ability to twist what's been said into what you want to hear. Please provide the source(s). Who was included in your research and where was this research done. Do you think a couple dozen responses are enough...