-
Welcome to Christian Forums, a Christian Forum that recognizes that all Christians are a work in progress.
You will need to register to be able to join in fellowship with Christians all over the world.
We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!
Hi Andy aka BA! Whooohooo!
Welcome aboard sweetie!
I hope you enjoy your time here!
Bless you! ^_^
Welcome aboard sweetie!
I hope you enjoy your time here!
Bless you! ^_^
Prentis
New Member
Welcome here Andy! :)
Blessings in the Lord to you... Just don't get yourself kicked off too fast! :lol:
Blessings in the Lord to you... Just don't get yourself kicked off too fast! :lol:
no worries about that...I know this crazy fun loving guy and if he wants to do that...I'm sure he will...[but he wont] ;)
Prentis
New Member
- Dec 31, 2010
- 5,591
- 2,758
- 113
- Faith
- Christian
- Country
- United States
Hello Big Andy and welcome! I have not been here long, but have found many sincere Christians here. I am sure that you will be a blessing here and hope that you will be blessed!
Aww sorry thought you were going to let me a joke LOL. just the way they did it so people could sit together there, but sadly being used by teens drinking and damaging it.
Ok, I am resurrecting my intro thread to actually do an intro not of me, but of where I am coming from vis-a-vis a Christian perspective. Let's call this:
I am a Reformed Baptist (for the most part). That means I take the Sovereignty of God VERY seriously. Everything I encounter either scripturally or through prayer, lesson, or experience is first filtered over and against if it does violence to the Sovereignty of God. If there is even a hint that we would remove, deflect, or appropriate even the smallest portion of the Glory and Honor due to God I
am very wary and skeptical until I can study my concerns further.
Next is Predestination, in this instance, Double Predestination; briefly, we are already born condemned so our Election is an ACTIVE, monergistic justification from our sin we receive from the Lord (i.e. God "saves" us with no input or acceptance from our part at all -- we are DEAD in our sin, and once quickened we are already saved), second Condemnation is a PASSIVE act, for the Lord allows those He does not choose to save to continue on in their sin and receive the just penalty for their sin.
I am also a Pre-Tribber (pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Body of Christ).
Next up on my quick "Theology of BiggAndyy" overview, I am a Partial Cessationist, that is, the Signs and Wonders Gifts of the Holy Spirit have temporarily ceased when Judah was finally conquered at the Battle of Masada and later when the final Apostle (John) died on the Isle of Patmos. The Gifts of Healing, Prophesy, Tongues, and Miracles are no longer volitionally exercised by the Believer today. I do not deny those events still occur, but they occur at the behest of God and not of our own will (making them acts of God not the freewill exercise of our individual Spiritual Gift).
Another stop on this small journey is the Inspiration of Scripture. I am of the firm opinion that the Word of God was not only divinely inspired but it was also divinely protected throughout the ages. However, only the autographs (original letters themselves) bear the mark of true inspiration. The copies and copies of copies (and so on) can and probably do bear the mark of divinely protected so that an enormous amount of ancient manuscript evidence is abundant for us today to be able to reconstruct what the autographs actually contained from the day they were written, to an astonishing level of accuracy and dependability. No translation from the original (donor) language to a second (receptor) language can bear either of those marks, but through diligent scholarship of gifted and Spirit filled men and women, we can hold in our hands (as closely as is allowed by human language) the very words of God Himself, in whatever receptor language we desire to translate the scripture to.
Hope this clears up a bit what I firmly believe and hold to be the Truth of Scripture and of The Lord.
BiggAndyy's Teeny-Tiny-Itsy-Bitsy Catechism.
(This is reprinted from my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/basplace
I am a Reformed Baptist (for the most part). That means I take the Sovereignty of God VERY seriously. Everything I encounter either scripturally or through prayer, lesson, or experience is first filtered over and against if it does violence to the Sovereignty of God. If there is even a hint that we would remove, deflect, or appropriate even the smallest portion of the Glory and Honor due to God I
am very wary and skeptical until I can study my concerns further.
Next is Predestination, in this instance, Double Predestination; briefly, we are already born condemned so our Election is an ACTIVE, monergistic justification from our sin we receive from the Lord (i.e. God "saves" us with no input or acceptance from our part at all -- we are DEAD in our sin, and once quickened we are already saved), second Condemnation is a PASSIVE act, for the Lord allows those He does not choose to save to continue on in their sin and receive the just penalty for their sin.
I am also a Pre-Tribber (pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Body of Christ).
Next up on my quick "Theology of BiggAndyy" overview, I am a Partial Cessationist, that is, the Signs and Wonders Gifts of the Holy Spirit have temporarily ceased when Judah was finally conquered at the Battle of Masada and later when the final Apostle (John) died on the Isle of Patmos. The Gifts of Healing, Prophesy, Tongues, and Miracles are no longer volitionally exercised by the Believer today. I do not deny those events still occur, but they occur at the behest of God and not of our own will (making them acts of God not the freewill exercise of our individual Spiritual Gift).
Another stop on this small journey is the Inspiration of Scripture. I am of the firm opinion that the Word of God was not only divinely inspired but it was also divinely protected throughout the ages. However, only the autographs (original letters themselves) bear the mark of true inspiration. The copies and copies of copies (and so on) can and probably do bear the mark of divinely protected so that an enormous amount of ancient manuscript evidence is abundant for us today to be able to reconstruct what the autographs actually contained from the day they were written, to an astonishing level of accuracy and dependability. No translation from the original (donor) language to a second (receptor) language can bear either of those marks, but through diligent scholarship of gifted and Spirit filled men and women, we can hold in our hands (as closely as is allowed by human language) the very words of God Himself, in whatever receptor language we desire to translate the scripture to.
Hope this clears up a bit what I firmly believe and hold to be the Truth of Scripture and of The Lord.
