To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Actually, I am an ordained non-denominational minster.
***Now, perhaps if you were someone more qualified to rule over affairs of Religion -- say, a Politician, for example -- I might be able to accept your compliment. But as it is....***
Hillary & Arminius in 2008
9 posted on
08/13/2003 8:59:04 PM PDT by
drstevej
To: drstevej; CCWoody; jude24; RnMomof7
Actually, I am an ordained non-denominational minster.Sorry, my bad... rather than Baptist, though, I could have said "credobaptist" minister. That works, right?
I only recently encountered the term "credobaptist" -- from a Presbyterian source, no less -- and I've come to like it very much as a more accurate description than "anabaptist". For after all, excepting Strict Immersionists, not all credobaptists (jude24, for example) would necessarily insist upon the rebaptism of an adult convert who had been baptized into the Faith by affusion or aspersion, but all credobaptists do believe in the receipt of a "profession of faith" prior to Baptism. Hence, "Credo"-"Baptist", but not in every case "Re-Baptizer". In addition, the term "credobaptist" (while intrinsically more accurate) also allows for a useful definitional distinction between Baptistic Christians, and the unitarian "anabaptists" of Munster and the like -- who, rejecting as they did all Trinitarian Baptisms (Reformed, Catholic, and Orthodox), insisted upon "re-baptism" into their heretical religions. Makes sense, no?
Now, perhaps if you were someone more qualified to rule over affairs of Religion -- say, a Politician, for example...
Hillary & Arminius in 2008
LOL. Yes, quite. She is Liberal-Methodist, after all. ;-)
13 posted on
08/13/2003 9:25:10 PM PDT by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
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