Demoninational differences

[Vickiek]

I am new here and I hope I am posting this in the right forum. What is the difference between Baptist, Methodist and Luthern churches. I am trying to learn more about God and I have been attending a bible study fellowship that is non-denominational. I now want to start attending a church but I just don't know what the differences are between these demonimation. Can someone please help?

Vickie

 

[SavedByGrace3]

I am new here and I hope I am posting this in the right forum. What is the difference between Baptist, Methodist and Luthern churches. I am trying to learn more about God and I have been attending a bible study fellowship that is non-denominational. I now want to start attending a church but I just don't know what the differences are between these demonimation. Can someone please help?

Vickie

If you sit down with the regular, guy in the pew member of each of these "denominations" and ask them specifically what the difference is, the vast majority will not be able to tell you. This is because very few people choose their church based on the teachings of the denomination. Most go to the church they were born into or the one they got saved in or the one their Christian friends go to. Some may change because of the style of worship. (I started in an Episcopalian, and went to a Pentecostal, and finally a charismatic. In each case it was primarily due to my desire to worship freely in the spirit.)

 

[InquisitorKind]

I am new here and I hope I am posting this in the right forum. What is the difference between Baptist, Methodist and Luthern churches. I am trying to learn more about God and I have been attending a bible study fellowship that is non-denominational. I now want to start attending a church but I just don't know what the differences are between these demonimation. Can someone please help?

Vickie

If you want to find out the differences, I recommend starting by reading the statements of faith for each denomination and comparing and contrasting them.

~Matt

 

[BBAS 64]

I am new here and I hope I am posting this in the right forum. What is the difference between Baptist, Methodist and Luthern churches. I am trying to learn more about God and I have been attending a bible study fellowship that is non-denominational. I now want to start attending a church but I just don't know what the differences are between these demonimation. Can someone please help?

Vickie

Vickiek,

Here is a link to another thread some what related to this issue, hope it helps

http://www.christianforums.com/t64203

If you search this fourm I am sure there are more.

BBAS

 

[dignitized]

Methodist - http://www.umc.org/abouttheumc/beliefs/

Lutheran - http://www.lcms.org/belief.asp

The first two are easy since they each have a major body which speaks for the majority of their denominations.

Baptists - thats another story. http://www.apologeticsindex.org/b89.html

 

[jenptcfan]

I'm Southern Baptist...here's what we believe (in a nutshell).

http://www.conwayfbc.com/default.asp?pid=32

I can't really tell you anything about the others. Good luck to you in finding the church God wants you to be a part of.

 

[Drotar]

There are some huge differences there.

On the Trinity and the person of Christ- Baptists and Methodists teach that Christ Jesus was fully God and fully man, something technically known as dyophysitim (I think that's how you spell it). Lutherans have a unique additional view of the communication of attributes given to Christ- this accomodates their view of the Lord's Supper sacrament.

On salvation-

Methodists- full Arminian
Baptists- four point Calvinist (Amyraldian)
Lutherans- semi-Pelagian with a strong emphasis on baptism

On eschatology, Baptists and Methodists agree on pre-trib pre-mill. Lutherans are typically postmill or amill.

Lutherans are very firm on covenant theology as a result of their holding to what they do on baptism. Baptists typically hold to dispensationalism, and Methodists I'm not really sure.

You picked three interesting denominations because they all view the Lord's Supper differently. Lutherans are consubstantiationists, which means that they believe that the Lord is present in, through, and under the bread and wine. Baptists have a hardcore memorial view, and usually do communion sparingly. Methodists have really more of a Reformed view in practice, they believe it's a memorial and a symbol, but that it empowers the Christian. They take part in it weekly.


THE BIG QUESTION- Are you referring to Baptists or Southern Baptists? I used to be SB now I'm just regular Baptist. There is a huge differnce in theology.

Umm... let's see... Those are the big potatoes. I can't think of anything else that they might differ on. TTYL Jesus loves you!

 

[Drotar]

Which Baptists were you referring to?

 

[CSMR]

Just a note on the Pelagian heresy from the web. "Pelagius said that man was basically good and did, indeed, have control of his own eternal destiny."
Lutheraninsm, the exact opposite, says that man is totally sinful, that grace is the gift of God, not a work of man, and indeed that man has no free will but an enslaved will.

 

[theologia crucis]

CSMR is correct.



The theological term for what Lutherans believe, teach, and confess is divine monergism, which means that God and God alone (through the perfect life and death of His Son Jesus the Christ) saves us.



Salvation is purely passive on our part; God is the one who acts. Lutherans are NOT Pelagians, Semi-Pelagians, or synergists. All of those require some act of humans in salvation. Divine monergism is purely an act of God, therefore, we can be confident in our salvation, because it is God who saves!