tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post1544399046815363897..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 4Kent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-88142788967800344642017-10-03T11:39:32.557-07:002017-10-03T11:39:32.557-07:00Hi Les,
I don't know on D.B. Ray. The eschat...Hi Les,<br /><br />I don't know on D.B. Ray. The eschatology of 19th century Baptists was often different than ours.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-85080501607512114272017-10-02T13:54:59.234-07:002017-10-02T13:54:59.234-07:00Bro. Brandenberg, (or anyone else) there is an old...Bro. Brandenberg, (or anyone else) there is an old book by DB Ray entitled "Baptist Succession." It has some good information in the first part of the book. The man that brought the book back into print told me 20 years ago that Ray was a-millennial. He had concerns about this, but felt the errors of a-millennialism were evident enough to not trip anyone up today. (This is not the case. These old errors are cyclical and people dig them up thinking they have found a "lost truth"). The a-millennial view is obvious in the allegorical use of clear words, in order to wrest them into a preterist view. But no where in the book does Ray call himself "a-millennial." I have seen casual references in the past to this as a matter-of-fact. But I cannot seem to find such a reference online by others attesting to it. Although it is abundantly obvious in his own writing, there are some who challenge the premise that he was a-millennial. Aside from the internal evidence in the book, I would like to find something externally attesting to it. If anyone can help me on this, I would much appreciate it.Les Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03629465560310498657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-23047371572647770312017-10-02T13:42:19.701-07:002017-10-02T13:42:19.701-07:00To make it even more accurate, I would say that th...To make it even more accurate, I would say that the NT church is not a democracy, but a theocracy. Christ appointed His church the executorship of His will. (Luke 22:29). In that sense, the executor (executive) cannot invent, modify or compromise the will of the testator. They can only carry out that which was entrusted of them. As a theocracy, the church carries out the will of Christ. In this, it is neither laodicean (ruled by the people) or Nicolaitan (ruled by a "clergy"). It is, as a wife to her husband, subject to its Head, the Lord Jesus Christ. As a body, it functions by the spiritual gifts of those the Lord places in that body. Pastors being a gift to the church (Eph 4:11-16) bring discernment under the headship of the chief shepherd.<br /> Les Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03629465560310498657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-65428093329873929222015-05-25T12:14:34.995-07:002015-05-25T12:14:34.995-07:00Pastor Brandenburg,
Would you know of a book that ...Pastor Brandenburg,<br />Would you know of a book that you can recommend on the topic of the "Whitsitt Controversy"?<br />For those who may not know, William Heth Whitsitt (1841-1911) Baptist "historian" and later president at the Southern Bap. Theo. Sem. in Louisville, KY taught that immersion was reintroduced in England ca. 1640. He published a book in 1896 (A Question in Baptist History) against church perpetuity and was forced to resign from the presidency of the Seminary due to the controversy. He wanted to revise (and did to a large degree) Baptist history.Bill Hardeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15552819877860565186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-45994656121042970002013-05-23T12:17:39.288-07:002013-05-23T12:17:39.288-07:00great articles! surprised how few comments. I happ...great articles! surprised how few comments. I happen to read dr. Moritz'sphe pamphlet before and was interesting to read the comments on it here.<br />He taught on doctrine of the Holy Spirit in my school. Knowledgeable man...but with wrong view on church. demapastorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03752190064167892573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-83822343078460204732012-07-17T12:34:20.759-07:002012-07-17T12:34:20.759-07:00Thanks John.Thanks John.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-60657529652767107782012-07-17T07:12:10.209-07:002012-07-17T07:12:10.209-07:00More from Bro. Carroll,
"Yet more recently, t...More from Bro. Carroll,<br />"Yet more recently, the eccentric, and I may add the heretical, higher critic, Dr. Briggs, seeks, it seems, to unite the Christian world on the word katholikos (universal) as applied to the church and as defined in these same early Christian centuries. We utterly disregard this invitation, not only because his word katholikos is found nowhere in the Greek of either Old or New Testament, but because the idea of catholicity must not he[sic] learned from post-apostolic fathers, but from the inspired New Testament, and because it was this word, katholikos, which led to the idea of the church as an organized general body having appellate jurisdiction over the particular congregations, and led to the union of church and state under Constantine. We are willing enough to enter the domain of uninspired history as a matter of research, and ready enough to concede all its fairly established facts, whatever sound proof may show them to be, but we recognize as the only ground of union, now or hereafter, the impregnable rock of the New Testament."<br /><br />Thanks for your writings Pastor Brandenburg.JOHN GARDNERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17629427894921858214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-68211300041969376672012-07-16T20:42:22.889-07:002012-07-16T20:42:22.889-07:00"Allow me to sum up in one sentence the compl..."Allow me to sum up in one sentence the complex idea of the church: It is a spiritual body; it must be separated from the state; it is a particular congregation and not an organized denomination, whether Papistical, Episcopal, Presbyterian or federal; it is a pure democracy; it is Christ's executive and judiciary on earth; its officers are bishops and deacons; its ordinances are baptism and the Lord's Supper."<br />~B.H. Carroll (1913)<br />Distinctive Baptist Principles<br /><br />http://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/carroll.bapt.distinctives.htmlJOHN GARDNERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17629427894921858214noreply@blogger.com