TimV
Puritanboard Botanist
Is this another subject that has been done to death? I've had trouble lately with a fellow who's name I wont post at this time, although I might later.
There are a fairly large group of churches out here in Ca. that are totally Calvinistic in their soteriology but believe any church that practices things like infant baptism are all daughters of the Great Whore of Babylon.
This one fellow, who is based in the South, seems to have influence in some of the more orthodox churches. This influence seems to consist of, at least in part, emails between himself and housewives.
I started to engage him in debate, but he ran. His big thing is that Calvin, and by association ourselves, murdered Servetus because he held to "the Sonship" of Christ, and we hate that doctrine so much we tortured Servetus to death. Another gem was "Luther had his peasants go out and kill Baptists".
My first attempts to reason with him proved fruitless, in part because he refused as sources, anything written by anyone having anything to do with a paedobaptistic church or tradition.
The Bible of these people, at least out here, is a book by Bill Downing "The New Testament Church". I read it 20 years ago, and the man didn't even check his own footnotes, which were often taken from secondary sources and contraditory.
Have any of you read this book? And do any of you have experience with these people?
Thanks
There are a fairly large group of churches out here in Ca. that are totally Calvinistic in their soteriology but believe any church that practices things like infant baptism are all daughters of the Great Whore of Babylon.
This one fellow, who is based in the South, seems to have influence in some of the more orthodox churches. This influence seems to consist of, at least in part, emails between himself and housewives.
I started to engage him in debate, but he ran. His big thing is that Calvin, and by association ourselves, murdered Servetus because he held to "the Sonship" of Christ, and we hate that doctrine so much we tortured Servetus to death. Another gem was "Luther had his peasants go out and kill Baptists".
My first attempts to reason with him proved fruitless, in part because he refused as sources, anything written by anyone having anything to do with a paedobaptistic church or tradition.
The Bible of these people, at least out here, is a book by Bill Downing "The New Testament Church". I read it 20 years ago, and the man didn't even check his own footnotes, which were often taken from secondary sources and contraditory.
Have any of you read this book? And do any of you have experience with these people?
Thanks