how you acquired your baptist belief system?
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Grandmother and Grandfather's religion, passed on to mother on to us.
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I was born a Methodist and my father was a Methodist pastor. On March 21, 1970 I became a Christian, but I did not become a Baptist until I was Baptized and voted into the membership of the church.  Even though you believe what the Baptist believes you are not a member until you are baptized and voted into the church. In most Baptist churches baptism after salvation is the next step to church membership.  In some churches they require classes before baptism and membership to make sure that you understand what you are doing.  Talk to the Pastor of the church you want to join and he can fill you in on the details.\n\nMost Baptist Pastors will not baptized unless you want to become a member of the church.  Baptism is a church ordinance and is to be done by the church. \nIn Acts they were baptized and what? Added to the church!\nActs 2:41 -\nThen they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
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wow, what a loaded question for me. let me say that I was raised catholic, and after getting married I decided to be primitive baptist, and we were that for 9 years. its a lil small church, and for 9 years, I kept feeling like this church was so full of hypocrites, but that is where the inlaws went and all of the husbands family, and I knew I wanted my kids to be involved in church. Needless to say God showed us the way , about 3 years ago, life changed for us, my husbands job filed bankruptcy, and I made a bad decision to work at night as a bartender, then stripper, eventually I got into drugs and so did my husband, we lost cutody of the kids and from that we got clean, and have been now for 2 1./2 years...from that at a primitive baptist church , they ask you to admit your wrongs before the whole church...well needless to say in 9 years we had never heard anyone do this, but we thought the right thing to do would be admit our wrongs before the church......well let me  just say the reception was not very warm, these "Godly" people turned their backs on us and judged us and basically condemed us to "hell"! I dont know even know why I expexted more. we got excluded from membership at this church. Yes our feelings were hurt, but it was God doing for us , what we could not do for ourselves.Today we attend a methodist church, and the whole church knows we are recovering drug addicts , and they welcome us with open arms, and sometimes introduce us to others who may be struggling with something like what we have been through. it is awesome to be able to go there and be who you are, with little or no judgement, I now feel a part of , and i know I am where God wants me to be.
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yes, i have known about this for some time, i am a baptist, and have very close freinds that are cathliocs, i know there is some small diffrences, but for the most part we beleve the same things. it has been hard for me because so many of my freinds on the baptist side are very much aganst cathliocs, but i have cathlioc freinds that are closer than my baptist freinds. so i think you for posting this.
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I feel the same as this person= minus the ex husband stuff. No offense but I am still married and was Pentecostal before my husband. But I was also raised baptist, my grandfather was a baptist preacher. I have the same feelings for Pentecostal as she does- here is her quote- hope she doesn't mind me posting it again.\n\nI am Pentecostal after being raised a Baptist. I originally started going to Pentecostal as my husband (now ex) went there. I choose to stay as there is freedom to worship and people don't think you're nuts if you cry or clap or raise your hands to worship the Lord. I enjoy the freedom of expression and the focus on the joy that will be found after the Lord raptures his church
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"I was born a Baptist and I shall remain a Baptist" (Aunt Esther said to Fred Sanford in SANFORD AND SON)\n\nI have never been impressed by the Pentecostal-movement in the US.\nTo me (and this is my personal opinion), it appears to be a bunch of hypocritical nonsense.\nWe have thousands of Pentecostal churches in Birmingham, Alabama and anytime I'm invited to one, I politely decline to worship there.\nIt has been my experience that in addition to a convoluted Gospel being preached, the worship service itself is too, too long!\nI don't think it takes all day to worship...not if everything is done decently and in order!\nSome of these churches do encourage their women to belong to what I call THE SKIRT POSSE'....and...the purpose of dressing in such a plain and unattractive manner is beyond me!\nBUT...ultimately the final decision is yours.\nI suggest you do your homework and see if this is really for you; before you 'dive in' completely!
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I have grown up in a Baptist church all of my life. I believe 100% in our God. I have the same question as you. It actually all came about this last week that I have been doing a lot of research on religion. I could not help myself from thinking your same question yesterday while in church. I felt quilty myself for even thinking this but it just puzzles me to no end. \n\nMy question is where did God come from. I agree there had to have been a beginning with him. Who put him here. Who sent him to Heaven & made Heaven for him to live? He was here on Earth so did he create all the disciples & the ones that crucified his son? \n\nI will keep a watch on this question b/c I would like to see the answer or an idea of where to look for it.
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Baptist General Convention of Texas beliefs include Bible inspiration, the priesthood of the believer, the sanctity of life, the virgin birth of Christ, salvation through the death of Jesus Christ, and that Christ is the head of the church. The Convention accepts the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message as its statement of faith. The Convention specifically does not accept the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message.
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I go to Temple Baptist Church, meaning im a born-agian Christian, but you probably didnt mean that. Either way, I go to church every Sunday.
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I think most Baptists would say that they're not planning to become an 'ism'.  They just want to worship God, and are not that focused on being a movement.
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I became a Christian when I was 17 and got babitized not long after. It was in 98 and God has blessed me so much.I Love God!!!!
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We base our beliefs in the books of the Bible. In the Bible we learn about being born again spiritually but not carnally.
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Ain't very much to it. \nIf you're dealing with the Spirit... are you trinitarian or unitarian or what?\nWould you have some sort of creed?\nHow would it be organized?\nCould you marry people?\nDo you believe in Baptism?\n\nIf you're going to form a new religion, you'll probably need to think about a lot more than works.... you'll need to know how to deal with the needs of people in your religion.
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I was baptized Catholic as a baby and raised that way throughout my early childhood. After a while my family stopped going to church, and I went on a period of self-exploration. I studied different religious ideas, beliefs, doctrines, etc. and pieced together what made logical, rational, reasonable sense in my opinion. From that I formed my own personal path. I followed it, and preferred not being a part of organized religion because creating my own path meant that my faith could grow and change as I grew and changed (and learned more) instead of remaining fixed and never evolving into something better.\n\nThen a friend of mine introduced me to Wicca. It takes a lot of work and study (I am still), but it allows solitary paths. Its lack of dogma also allows for your faith to grow and change. The more I learned about it, the more it coincided with the beliefs I'd already put together through my soul-searching. Since then I have considered myself a solitary Wiccan.\n\nI think this is the proper way to go about finding religion. Everyone's always saying things like, "I've found religion," or (specifically), "I've found Jesus," but more often than not, IT finds THEM. They believe it because they were raised to believe it, and/or people told them to. They didn't find it for themselves, or even bothered to figure it out. I formed a religion to fit me, rather than conforming myself to fit a religion.
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Unfortunately religion has misled so many good God fearing people away from His original doctrine, which is layed out for us in the Bible.\nAlthough I attend a Baptist Church, it is up to me to study the bible every day, to ensure that the Church I attend is teaching the correct messages. Churches today have developed their own doctrine and rules, and have seriously fallen away from God's truth, because it became all about filling the seats in the church house, and bringing in more money into the offering plate. They pick and choose scriptures that they like, and completly ignore the rest. You have to accept the bible as a whole. you can't ask God to conform to your ways, by obeying just the scriptures you agree with. We are to conform to the laws of God and not the other way around. Follow God and go against the world. Forget about "religion" persay, and just be the Christian that God would be proud of. When I am asked about my religion, I Just say,"I am a Christian" and I follow God's rules the best way I can. Today's religion can de-rail the most faithful of Christians, if they are not committed to their daily bible study.
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Personally I'm a Baptist, so I go to a Baptist church, but I've been to a Calvary Chapel before and it was good.
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join the baptist church