• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Here is a poll for suggested forum names

What should be the name of the Baptist/Anabaptist forum?

  • Bible Believers

  • Amazing Grace

  • Give us potluck or give us death ^_^

  • We don't splash babies ^_^

  • Faith, Hope, and Love (or Charity)

  • Bible Belt Buckles

  • A Royal Priesthood

  • Bible thumpers

  • The Word and the Water

  • Other or none of the above


Results are only viewable after voting.
Status
Not open for further replies.

SumTinWong

Living with BPD
Apr 30, 2004
6,469
744
In a house
Visit site
✟25,386.00
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
theseed said:
Why don't Quakers baptize when Jesus told us to?
I don't know.

Why don't many Baptists love their neighbor as themselves and love God with all their heart and mind? That I believe was a command.
 
Upvote 0

theseed

Contributor
Site Supporter
Dec 25, 2003
6,026
132
Clarksville, TN
Visit site
✟75,788.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
Lollard said:
I don't know.

Why don't many Baptists love their neighbor as themselves and love God with all their heart and mind? That I believe was a command.
Because they're sinners.

Why are you being so caustic?
 
Upvote 0

CrystalBrooke

I'm almost positive I don't care what you think
Jun 16, 2004
14,942
932
Tennessee
Visit site
✟19,777.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
could you please explain i dont understand what you mean? I didnt mean it was mocking us, i was talking about Catholics and Lutherans, people who still baptize infants, if i were one of them i would be fairly offended, actually being baptist im offended and quite disappointed.
 
Upvote 0

theseed

Contributor
Site Supporter
Dec 25, 2003
6,026
132
Clarksville, TN
Visit site
✟75,788.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
And bible believers would not be offensive? Implying that others don't believe the bible?
 
Upvote 0

eldermike

Pray
Site Supporter
Mar 24, 2002
12,089
624
76
NC
Visit site
✟20,209.00
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Republican
i misread this part, but i dont understand the "its funny in a historical way"
Well actually i am not defending it, only explaining it. But now that I consider your point I'll have to defer to the one who proposed it, they may have a different context than I do.
 
Upvote 0

SumTinWong

Living with BPD
Apr 30, 2004
6,469
744
In a house
Visit site
✟25,386.00
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
theseed said:
Because they're sinners.

Why are you being so caustic?
Why are you trying to possibly start an argument with the Quakers?

You said "Why don't Quakers baptize when Jesus told us to?" .

Why add in the "when Jesus told us to"? Why not just ask the direct question of why Quakers don't baptize? Why take a jab at them with the latter half as if they don't care what Jesus said?

So I asked why don't Baptists love their neighbors... as Jesus said, to personalize it the way you did.

But to answer your question:
 
Upvote 0

CrystalBrooke

I'm almost positive I don't care what you think
Jun 16, 2004
14,942
932
Tennessee
Visit site
✟19,777.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
theseed said:
And bible believers would not be offensive? Implying that others don't believe the bible?
Well if you want to put it that way, then any of the names that we can choose from could be offensive.
 
Upvote 0

theseed

Contributor
Site Supporter
Dec 25, 2003
6,026
132
Clarksville, TN
Visit site
✟75,788.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
Lollard said:
Why are you trying to possibly start an argument with the Quakers?
I would only possibly be trying to start an argument if I only possibly wanted to argue.


Why add in the "when Jesus told us to"? Why not just ask the direct question of why Quakers don't baptize? Why take a jab at them with the latter half as if they don't care what Jesus said?

Am I not allowed to have 2 part questions? It should be quite obvious and seeming logical on why I would add the clause. If I did not think Jesus told us to, then I would not even have asked it. If I asked only "Why do Quakers not baptize", only later to have to ask "But Jesus told us too", would be inefficent.

Moreover, where does the bible say that we should not arue at all? I believe it only says that we should avoid useless arguments--there is a difference.

So I asked why don't Baptists love their neighbors... as Jesus said, to personalize it the way you did.

And if this question is analagous to mine, then that would mean that the Quakers are not true to The Bible.
But to answer your question:


Thats all I wanted, thanks.


 
Upvote 0

SumTinWong

Living with BPD
Apr 30, 2004
6,469
744
In a house
Visit site
✟25,386.00
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
theseed said:
I would only possibly be trying to start an argument if I only possibly wanted to argue.
But you are a grown up and now how the game is played. Making statements the way you did, normally leads to arguements / fights / disagreements.

Ahh so it is efficiency you want. Then why not do as I did and type in Quakers and baptism on google, and get the same answer I did, and avoid all this nonsense to begin with? That would have given you what you desired: The knowledge of why without the extra work involved.

Moreover, where does the bible say that we should not arue at all? I believe it only says that we should avoid useless arguments--there is a difference.
No, but it does speak of at all times try to make peace. Romans 12:18 "If it is possible, as far as is in you, being in peace with all men." You do what ever you want and take what I say with a grain of salt. Just ignore me.
 
Upvote 0

Crazy Liz

Well-Known Member
Oct 28, 2003
17,090
1,106
California
✟23,305.00
Faith
Christian
Bizzlebin Imperatoris said:
Maybe Quakers cannot be correctly associated with us?

Baptists tend to think of every association as voluntarily, and tend to disassociate themselves from those with whom they disagree more readily than most Christian denominations (as evidenced by another thread that is currently active.

As I have pointed out before, we do have many things in common as Free Church Protestants. The greatest core belief we hold in common is that no one may be compelled by other humans to be a Christian. This includes both parents and governments. That's why none of us "splash babies."

(BTW, I posted that to be humorous, not as a serious proposal for a forum name. It is simply a true statement we all hold in common. I certainly don't want a forum name that sounds derisive in any way.)
 
Upvote 0

seebs

God Made Me A Skeptic
Apr 9, 2002
31,917
1,530
20
Saint Paul, MN
Visit site
✟70,235.00
Faith
Seeker
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Republican
On second thought, maybe the Quakers should be put in a separate Congregation forum. I think there are maybe three of us on the site, although I'm the only regular poster.

But it'd be sorta cool to have a Congregation forum where people weren't allowed to debate my position unless they were Quakers.
 
Upvote 0
Status
Not open for further replies.