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  1. I agree with you - but the US baptist culture is very odd (maybe odd is a better word than 'wierd'). It's a laughing stock across the world but I'm not sure anyone involved in it can accept that (because they're so involved in it!!). I can only ever come back to, and rely on, the Bible. It's such a shame that US Baptist's don't do that and rely on political manifestos. So sad to watch Yea but it's turned from the Bible to politics. It's very well documented that evangelical in the USA have turned from the Bible to trump as their ultimate authority...it's very odd to watch it happen in real time but so be it. It's not my place to try to turn a nation back (although in arguing for that as kindly and politely as I can)
  2. Yes - anyone who disagrees leaves. It's called an 'echo chamber'. The bullying on this site is unreal ? The rage is absolutely clear. If you can't see it then you've become immune to it. i don't affiliate with any US party. They've made some real mistakes and watching Baptists vote for trump is extremely worrying. Sad really You guys tie yourself in knots by trying to argue trumpism. It's clearly anti Christian, anti Bible and anti baptist. But your religion has become trumpism over all...it's very documented outside your own country
  3. Oh come on!! This site is marked by absolute, uncontrolled rage! Nobody who posts on here regularly could dispute that? I've followed this site for then years, and in the last three 'fundamental Baptist's' have become the same as 'trumpist-republicans'. It's odd to watch in slow time (the worlds press reports in it but people In the bubble don't seem conscious of it). Christian doesn't equal republican!! Evangeilical doesn't equal trump! Its almost funny watching from Europe as you guys tie yourselves knots. Just stop, and look to the Bible rather than your wierd culture ?
  4. But that's like saying I can judge USA on the Catholics, or democrats. They don't stand for much! Europe has lots of different people in, like myself who's a Bible believer. Solidly so! It's this 'all or nothing' that conservative shave latched onto recently...very odd. Nothing like our heritage! The difference is how angry folk are. The rage on this site is unchecked, and nothing like it was 4 years ago. I'm a conservative and so see lurches one way or the other as to be a bit suspect.
  5. As an outsider what is really interesting is how evangelicals have 'picked a side'. In the uk and Europe sites like this one are studied - until about 3 years ago they were full of Bible, and theology etc. That's simply disappeared as sites like Online Baptist have become political hotbeds. I would naturally fall on the republican side, but the obsessive and conspiratorial nature of evangelicals is odd to look at (from outside in!). In the uk and Europe you can still have political freedom whatever your religion. It's like the pilgrim fathers went the other way!!
  6. I am not sure this was directly what they meant. I think the article was more about how on political and cultural issues the two sides are so far apart that governing them as "one nation" (as your constitution repeats) looked impossible. Its amazing how often (always?!) great powers can resist almost any external threat, but seem to tear themselves apart.
  7. There was an interesting article on the BBC website this week about how the USA was now 'ungovernable'. (I know people have strong opinions on reliability of certain sites, but I choose to judge each article on its merits.) The factions do indeed - to an outsider - seem irreconcilable. I am glad that this has not resulted in the violence that manifested itself in Northern Ireland, but I wonder what lessons could be learned from that province where two 'irreconcilable' communities have learned to live in a semblance of peace? An awful lot of grace and forgiveness on both sides, that's for sure. And difficult, sometimes brutal conversations
  8. Deuteronomy 6 is quoted by Jesus in Matthew 4. The KGV renders the word 'tempt', which I love: "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord your God" This word "tempt" probably relates better to the word "test" in todays English, but I love the word tempt here as it shows that being tempted is not a sin in itself (for if God is capable of being tempted then it cannot be a sin). I do wonder whether handling snakes in such a way crosses the boundary into tempting and testing God?
  9. In church I pray with my head bowed and my eyes close, because I was taught that way to pray when I was converted. I was taught it was respectful and so I stick to it. Now, I'm not saying what I was taught was correct, or that I'm 'RIGHT' in what I do. But as it's not instructed in the Bible I am at liberty, and for me this shows respect for the Lord and for others in the congregation. There is a practical plus-side...with my eyes shut if another in the congregation, using their own liberty, prays in a pose contrary to my own preference - well, I simply don't know about it!
  10. Hi Timothy. I live in the South West of England not far from the border with Wales. Nice part of the world, the Romans in particular liked it here for it's good farming land and temperate climate.
  11. I think there are threats and dangers in every age, and these change. Also they change depending on where in the world you are. For some of our persecuted brothers and sisters pluralism would seem like a good thing, to be allowed to practice our faith free from threat. In the western world the problem is the negative change towards pluralism from a place where the Bible stood front and centre of our culture. This is so sad, and surely a sign of degradation in the end times. Don't get me started on postmodernism...
  12. Good morning brothers and sisters I am joining the site as have recently been incapacitated and find myself unable to attend my local chapel. They've been really good and look out for me but the more avenues I have to fellowship with like minded believers the better! I am KJV using (not only, although I use it exclusively) baptist of a strict and particular persuasion. I was born again as a young man in 1978 and have been glad to follow the Lord to the best of my abilities since then. Not always perfectly but always with a sincere heart! I look forward to meeting you all
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