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You might be an Independent Baptist if everyone agrees to have lunch at...any buffet style venue.

Then there are the 7 point Calvinists, who follow John Piper. However the 'total depravity' of a lost soul, I could identify with. All humanity requires a redeemer...redeemed how I love to proclaim it!

I agree with Calvin on one point of the 'TULIP'... Total Depravity of Man - Jeremiah 17:9, Ephesians 2:12 I don't agree with Calvin on... Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints. I agree with Arminius on four points... Free Will or Human Ability - Romans 10:9, Revelation 22:17 Conditional Election - John 3:36 Universal Redemption or General Atonement - 2 Corinthians 5:15, John 2:2, Hebrews 10:10 The Holy Spirit Can Be Resisted - Acts 7:51, 2 Timothy 3:8 I don't agree with Arminius on... Falling from Grace - John 14:3, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Hebrews 7:25, John 10:29, Romans 8:38-39 So, I'm neither of the above I'm a Bible believing Christian.

To the groom... Proverbs 31:10 "Who can find a virtuous woman?" Follow up with, 'If the wisest man in the world needed help to find a virtuous woman what makes you think you did? Probably not the best advice .

When I'm away from my local church traveling I don't attend Sunday and/or Wednesday services...unless I'm visiting with folks who do go when the doors are open and then I go to their morning and evening services.

You might have been in an Independent Baptist Church if you've heard the preacher say... "There is no place, anywhere like this place, anywhere near this place, so this must be the place."

“Even the mob engaged in pillage and murder is not the disorganized thing it appears to be. Somewhere behind the violence is a leader whose ideas it is simply putting into effect." Aiden W. Tozer

I don't have a knowledge of other local churches and how they conduct their worship activities. Therefore I'm probably naive about them. However, in much of my reading both in scripture and Christian authors, it would seem to depend on how they position Jesus Christ in their worship as to whether they are a cult. I know of an 'SBC' church which in a very short time went from Baptist to "Church" including having the name 'Baptist' dropped from their sign out front. Now they're quote, "VIBE Casual, Creative, Spirit-filled, Friendly, Young families, Lots of kids" This is one of their shows or what they call services.

As much as I detest the political position of the city, university, and in many instances the state's political position. When football season arrives I will watch every game of The Ohio State Buckeyes and if they do well in basketball I may watch some of it.

"The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God's method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter." C.H. Spurgeon

God didn't change anything, if that's what you're trying to say. God spared Nineveh because they fell in line with God's eternal direction (His will). If I were to put it in the common vernacular, "my way or the highway." "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." [2 Peter 3:9] "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." [Malachi 3:6]

Meanings are expressed in words, but it is one of the misfortunes of life that words tend to persist long after their meanings have departed, with the result that thoughtless men and women believe they have the reality because they have the word for it. That’s where we are now. ~ Aiden W. Tozer

"As the King can never die, so His grace can never fail." C. H. Spurgeon Dabid dia charis.

Welcome aboard! We surely have some topics come up that I hope will encourage your faith and draw you nearer to God's word.

Yes, I agree that, "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." [2 Timothy 3:12] however, to what degree all depends on the Lord. But, according to everything else I've read or studied and been taught, born again Christians will not suffer "great tribulation." I may see some tribulation, I think we all will, but not the seven years of of it from Daniel. The original question is what I wanted to find out more about but, I'm beginning to believe I have the answer. That answer being the inclusion of... There are so many key words in scriptures pointing toward this end time prophecy that I may be listening to Jesus explain it before I satisfy my curiosity.