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I am basically a anabaptist

Interesting,... what is the difference between Baptist and Anabaptist?

Anabaptist. Okay basically the mennonites but I'm not a mennonite. The believe in baptism after your saved. They dont believe in being involved in politics. They beli6it is okay to be apart of the world cause we live on it but not to make it our home. I'm not 100% on the differences.

Years ago, I've encountered some of the Mennonites and cannot help but admire them in the way they've lived. They dressed very modestly (I wished very much that their form of modesty is half as imulated by the rest in the body, if not totally) and lived in isolated communities in their attempt to remain pure from the influences of the world (I don't wholly agree to that, but it's commendable).

We did of course have had a soteriological difference, in that they do not believe in eternal security, but they're no less members of the body of Christ.

With that said, you've said that they believei in Baptism after one's salvation. Is that a contrast to your belief, or the same as yours?

I do agree with the modesty. Some Christian girls wear bikinis and low cut shirts that reveal.

Sadly true. No differet than the world and that's a shame. And some boys wear skinny jeans, wear their hair long, and get tattoos. Some of the tattoos includes the cross and bible verses, but the Bible is clear that one should not mark the body (with very few exceptions i.e. military related tattoos such as branch of service, MOS' or unit designations).

True.

It has only been recently that men have been cutting their hair short. And what’s wrong with skinny jeans?!

I hope you're right about hair, bu I see differently; have you heard of "Man Buns and so-called "Rompers"? Men are becoming more and more effimate.

As for skinny Jeans, Paul Washer's wife said it this way:

"If your clothing is a frame for your face in which the glory of God shines, then God is pleased with your clothingl but if your clothing is a frame for your body, then it is sensual and God hates it".

Man buns have nothing to do with femininity. Women look much uglier in buns than men do. Most men with buns are very manly, including the sumo wrestlers!

You have a problem with that?! Our naked bodies that God has created is nothing unnatural to be ashamed of!

Same I believe that baptism is like marriage. A wedding ceremony doesn't make you married but it us a sign to others. This what baptism is to me. So yes I believe it should be done when your are saved

I had never thought of Baptism that way... and that sounds quite good! I know that Baptism is sign to the church and the world that you have been saved, but not a marital covenant illustrated in a wedding. The Bible did talk of Israel and the church as the Bride (one bride I think, not two); much of it had to do with the return of Christ. Nevertheless, there were others I just need to look for it.

I was baptized btw. My dad strongly suggests that if you are a Christian you should because likewise It is good for a young man and woman to have a wedding

Amen, and I definitely agree with your father. The importance of getting baptized is such that Jesus did say that "If you're ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you...." and "... he who seeks to save his life will lose it and he who loses his life for my sake will find it."

I've heard it argued that if one doesn't want to get baptised, is that one really saved? I don't totally agree with notion, and it risks giving dangerous credence to those who promotes Baptismal Regeneration, but there is something to be said of it.

If baptism is a show of an "Outward sign of an inward change" (Regeneration), and that it is a covenantal rite that one is now a Christian [just like circumcision (Colossians 1:11-12)], then unless one is alergic to water (ad there is such a thing BTW) there's absolutely no good reason for not doing it.

I agree.

Partially true. The majority of denominations became as they are due to ecclesiastical and evangelical differences (More on this later, I'll say for now, that any institutions, run by human beings, will eviably fail).

The ones that were in relations to a disagreement with the Catholic church is only one, which is later named Lutheranism. The division of Protestant denominations began a time after John Calvin, which began with questions raised by Johan (John) Arminius. This sparked a debate with one camp defending what would soon be called Calvinism, and the other, Arminianism.

Yes, because they all noticed various flaws of the globalist antichrist Church of Rome!

You're cute, lol

You think I’m joking?!

No. I know you're convinced the church is the W**re of Babylon. Amarite?