I am at that. Although I am a New Testament Baptist, (not southern Baptist) I have issues with some of the doctrine. In fact I have issues with a lot of doctrines. Most of these are born out of personal study as opposed to the schema advanced by the individual church leaders. My father was a fundamental Baptist preacher. And everyone knows about "Preacher's kids!" :-)
They are taught in the seminaries to use the expository method of preaching/teaching the gospel, however, this ends up with them using out-of-context passages of scripture to prove an absolute, which I consider to be in error. This consequently makes their followers adopt the dogma without doing personal study therefore are arguing a single person's interpretation, as opposed to the general theme that the bible teaches which is salvation by faith. One must realize that most any point can be "proven" by grabbing a single chapter or verse from somewhere in the collection of books. It is a little more difficult to be Catholic, because the Church has adopted additional books to be a part of their doctrine. Following the doctrine of separation of church and state, which, incidentally is NOT a provision of the US constitution, I have issues with any biblical "law" that is adopted into civil law, and then enforced against those who subscribe to a different doctrine. I do not have issues with those who, by personal choice, choose to obey these biblical laws. I do have issues with their use of these to discriminate against others, or following some kind of agenda by which they wish to control the lives of those who subscribe to a different doctrine or interpretation. I still feel and respect it in others to have a faith, especially when they are devout in their belief. I don't see a reason to defend the faith, because I consider faith a personal matter, and no minds are going to be changed on a CF-Community list. ====================================== Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 ====================================== If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana Tierney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:39 PM Subject: Re: Yet another scumbag parent.... | Clearly. There seem to be several Jewish people for a start, and John, | Larry and Doug seem a bit cynical on the subject of religion. | | I was just taking issue with the concept that if you aren't a | fundamentalist southern baptist you are not a christian. I don't think this | was Mattew's primary point but he does seem to believe it. | | Call it my rant for the day. | | Dana | | Kevin Graeme writes: | | > IMO, there's a difference between non-Christian and anti-Christian. I | > think there are many non-Christians on this list. | > | > -Kevin | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
