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SNAP urges Baptists to speak out on abuse ("Falsely saved" ministers or "out of fellowship" w/God?
Associated Baptist Press ^ | 1/10/2014 | Bob Allen

Posted on 01/22/2014 9:30:46 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist

Advocates say it isn't enough for churches to enact policies to prevent child sexual abuse, but churches where abuse has already occured must be more vocal in helping police catch predators.

A victim support group held signs outside a Houston megachurch Jan. 9 calling for greater transparency about the reporting of child sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches.

A former youth pastor...

A former youth minister...

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(Excerpt) Read more at abpnews.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: backslid; baptists; calvinism; eternalsecuritylie; homosexualagenda; romancatholicism
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

LOL ok you get a couple of points for that. Just waiting now for the hetero/sodomite comparison post.


61 posted on 01/22/2014 9:02:06 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: metmom

“If we had to earn His forgiveness, it wouldn’t be mercy and grace, it would be wages due for behavior performed.”

You just had to drop in this thread and make sense again:)


62 posted on 01/22/2014 9:04:35 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: Gamecock

Yes imagine a Baptist media source skewering their own denomination. Having an arm of independent accountability is good. Kind of how the American press STARTED out.


63 posted on 01/22/2014 9:09:14 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: redleghunter

Yeah, I know. I’m such a wet blanket.


64 posted on 01/22/2014 9:10:04 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: AbnSarge

Good source. Wonder if it cost the archdiocese the same amount of money the Army spent on similar programs for sexual assault. It wasn’t cheap.


65 posted on 01/22/2014 9:11:33 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: metmom

And the foot washing analogy is one of my favorites. Just think hours later Peter denied His Lord. Yet the Lord preserved Peter ensuring his opportunity to confess his transgression. We sometimes forget we are not orphans in this relationship.


66 posted on 01/22/2014 9:29:34 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
"IMHO, it is BOTH/AND in this case with calvinism/arminianism"

That is impossible because Calvinism and Arminianism are the antithesis of each other. The law of non-contradiction controls.

67 posted on 01/23/2014 5:53:31 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity; Laissez-faire capitalist
"IMHO, it is BOTH/AND in this case with calvinism/arminianism"

That is impossible because Calvinism and Arminianism are the antithesis of each other. The law of non-contradiction controls.

I eagerly await his thread series on all the things wrong with Arminianism.

68 posted on 01/23/2014 5:56:18 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: redleghunter; Laissez-faire capitalist

“If Baptists can’t police up their own and put offenders on notice then why bother having a paper.”

EAch congregation remains an independent church. I’m part of a SBC church, but the SBC doesn’t even know how many members we have. It doesn’t know our attendance. It doesn’t know our budget.

The SBC exists to pool resources for seminaries and missions. It has no top down authority.


69 posted on 01/23/2014 6:43:35 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: metmom
there is no forgiveness of sin without confession.

So, in your view would this mean that - if we do not confess - He would not forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness?

70 posted on 01/23/2014 7:41:50 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: metmom

I’m confused here on your distinction for the saved person. You say for the saved “they need to confess that sin to open the lines of communication,” but not whether - if we do not confess - He “forgives us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

You say no for the unsaved, I’m asking about the saved, if they do not confess.


71 posted on 01/23/2014 7:54:58 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Sort of like a confederacy. Understand.


72 posted on 01/23/2014 12:27:51 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: D-fendr

Here is the moral of the story from the NT....We should not be stubborn idiots and refuse to confess our sins. Such an attitude would mean we are arrogant thinking we are better than God’s commands. If someone is in such a state of open rebellion to God, then Paul and Peter tell us to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith.


73 posted on 01/23/2014 12:30:43 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: redleghunter

My previous threads were what could be called the massive body blows that each (in their turn) turned the Calvinist stomach, intestines, etc, etc, to mush.

This was the jawbreaking blow to the face that knocked Calvinism OUT.

All metaphorically speaking, of course...


74 posted on 01/23/2014 1:09:42 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: editor-surveyor; All
But...but... I have heard some Baptists say that they did this or that over the weekened (quite a few things that weren't so good), and said they were still saved and on their way to heaven --- as they had unconditional eternal security. How can this be??? How many sins did they commit or have to commit to show they were "falsely saved" or were "out of fellowship" with God but nonetheless still saved? Oh, the humanity...
75 posted on 01/23/2014 1:13:00 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
This was the jawbreaking blow to the face that knocked Calvinism OUT. All metaphorically speaking, of course...

Especially when one is shadow boxing.

76 posted on 01/23/2014 1:28:42 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: redleghunter

>> “ Most of these type churches have elders who can remove a minister or pastor. Basically they can fire them so they no longer lead.” <<

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Yes, they can, but in the rare instances when they do, it is usually for an essentially political reason. Doctrinally, they are in hypnotic lock-step in most congregations.


77 posted on 01/23/2014 3:07:07 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Alex Murphy

78 posted on 01/23/2014 3:11:28 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: D-fendr; metmom
>> “You say no for the unsaved, I’m asking about the saved, if they do not confess” <<

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By Yeshua’s words, there is no salvation until the end, for anyone.

Matthew 24:

[12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
[13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Can anyone show us a verse that says there can be salvation before the end?

As to confession and repentance 1John 1:9 is pretty clear that both are required (as many times as the Holy Spirit shows us a sin).

79 posted on 01/23/2014 3:19:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
Having grown up in a Baptist church, I can say with confidence that few baptists will find themselves “saved” when the Last Trump blows.

Well then, I thank God that YOU aren't going to be the one who determines that.

80 posted on 01/23/2014 3:24:12 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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