Southern Baptist means different things to different people...including Southern Baptists.
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I feel like southern babtist churches do have a different feel, the people, and the general way they work. Not exactly doctrinal, just a vibe you get. I go to a southern Babtist youth group myself and I enjoy it very muchT.S. (myself) wrote:What would you say makes a Southern Baptist church different from a Baptist one? (I'm sure you didn't anticipate that question.)
Is it true that Southern Baptists have the best potlucks?
It is my understanding (a caveat as much as it is a qualifier) that the Protestant Old Testament was arrived at by accepting those books which were considered canon by Jewish priests pre-Christ's arrival—in other words, the Tanakh—and the Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox New Testament. The reasons for not accepting those books outside of the Tanakh vary, the most common being that the books were determined not to have been divinely inspired (owing to the 400 years of silence accepted by both Jewish and Christian theologians; anything following Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi is not accepted as divinely inspired because of the belief that God did not speak to His people during the intervening years between the aforementioned prophets and Jesus's birth); the Roman Catholic New Testament is considered canon because the books in it have been determined to be of genuine, divinely-inspired apostolic origin.Eleventh Doctor wrote:How was the Protestant Scriptural Canon arrived at?
Yes. The Southern Baptist Church does not accept infant baptism.Eleventh Doctor wrote:So if a person who had been baptized as an infant in another denomination wanted to join your church long term they would have to be baptized again?
Our football teams are in the SEC instead of the Big Ten.T.S. (myself) wrote:What would you say makes a Southern Baptist church different from a Baptist one? (I'm sure you didn't anticipate that question.)
Probably. We do, after all, have Southern fried food.T.S. (myself) wrote:Is it true that Southern Baptists have the best potlucks?
The doctrine of sola scriptura essentially states that Scripture is the final authority for doctrine, and that one can derive doctrine not only by enumeration in Scripture, but also implication in Scripture. For one thing, Paul states in 2nd Timothy 3:16-17 that all Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for the believer's edification, and that through it one is "competent, equipped for every good work"; from that I think it is reasonable to conclude that Scripture is all that is necessary for living a Godly life as a believer. Not only that, but Scripture states that God is all-sustaining, all-knowing, and all-powerful, and that all Scripture is breathed from Him, and so I think it is a logical deduction from Scripture that it is all that is necessary for determining doctrine.jehoshaphat wrote:Is Sola Sciptura supported in scripture?
I cannot determine a person's salvation if they identify as Catholic any more than if they identify as Protestant. It is not my place to judge someone's salvation; that is between them and God. I think all people who believe and trust in the Gospel of Christ are Christians, but again, that's not my categorical, objective call.Eleventh Doctor wrote:The question is not meant for Roman Catholic, it is to gauge the Protestants acceptance of Roman Catholics as Christians.
I wouldn't say that we're the most conservative, but we are a conservative denomination and, as the name implies, the church is concentrated in the Southeastern United States, colloquially known as the Bible Belt.John Henry wrote:Question: Do the Southern Baptist Denomination have something to do with the Bible Belt? Is it the most conservative?
But tradition is also supported in the Bible. It is supported way more than Sola Scriptura. It is through tradition that we are able to say that Scripture is divinely inspired and what is in the canon of scripture. Also you can't take something from itself to prove something about it. It is a logical fallacy. You say that the Bible says that it is divinely inspired so therefore it is. You have to have an outside source to prove infallibility.TigerShadow wrote:The doctrine of sola scriptura essentially states that Scripture is the final authority for doctrine, and that one can derive doctrine not only by enumeration in Scripture, but also implication in Scripture. For one thing, Paul states in 2nd Timothy 3:16-17 that all Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for the believer's edification, and that through it one is "competent, equipped for every good work"; from that I think it is reasonable to conclude that Scripture is all that is necessary for living a Godly life as a believer. Not only that, but Scripture states that God is all-sustaining, all-knowing, and all-powerful, and that all Scripture is breathed from Him, and so I think it is a logical deduction from Scripture that it is all that is necessary for determining doctrine.jehoshaphat wrote:Is Sola Sciptura supported in scripture?
Could you please expound? How can your canon be the Jewish one? Jews by definition don't exactly believe in Jesus. I misunderstood you somewhere rather badly.TigerShadow wrote:It is my understanding (a caveat as much as it is a qualifier) that the Protestant Old Testament was arrived at by accepting those books which were considered canon by Jewish priests pre-Christ's arrival—in other words, the Tanakh—and the Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox New Testament. The reasons for not accepting those books outside of the Tanakh vary, the most common being that the books were determined not to have been divinely inspired (owing to the 400 years of silence accepted by both Jewish and Christian theologians; anything following Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi is not accepted as divinely inspired because of the belief that God did not speak to His people during the intervening years between the aforementioned prophets and Jesus's birth); the Roman Catholic New Testament is considered canon because the books in it have been determined to be of genuine, divinely-inspired apostolic origin.