Conservative Baptist Negotiations

One of the most controversial aspects of Christianity is the interpretations gathered by its followers because multiple sects formed based on different opinions of how to correctly interpret and comprehend the scripture. While not he was not the first to question how to interpret the scripture, the third century scholar Origen had significant influence on how Christians should decipher their religion within his text, Origen: On First Principles. Origen describes the scriptures as having three meanings behind them: bodily, spiritual, and soul meanings. Each intended to illuminate the Christian understanding of how to practice the faith correctly. However, this is not to say that each piece of scripture has each layer of meaning behind it. For instance, each passage of scripture could have only one type of interpretation or any combination of the three.

Baptists offer prayer to God through Christ during the service and reject the practice of praying to Mary and the saints. The services are not nearly as laid out and ordered, with much less participation by the church members during the service. .

The important sacred text of Christianity is the Bible. The Bible is primary sacred text of Christianity. The Christian Bible is made of two parts: the Old Testament, which is almost identical to the Jewish Bible; and the New Testament, a collection of Christian writings that includes biographies of Jesus and the apostles, letters to new churches, and an apocalyptic work. The Christian Bible is a collection of writings that Christians believe is of divine and human origin. The Bible is accepted by Christians as trustworthy for belief and practice. As well sometimes referred to as 'Scripture ' and 'Holy Scripture '. Christianity views the Bible as the basic source of belief and practice. The Bible is the central sacred text for

A Research Paper on the “The Contribution of Baptists in the Struggle for Religious Freedom”

Between 1820 and 1860, Americans constructed 40,000 new churches compared to the 10,000 they constructed in the 40 years before 1820. At the end of the revival period, ”one-third of all Americans attended church regularly.”(P.400) Many of the early revival preachers embraced Christian evangelicalism, the established groups sought to take advantage of the popular enthusiasm to build their particular denominations. Methodists and the Baptists established themselves as leading American denominations as a result of the Second Great Awakening. The two faiths had a mutual sense of affinity with regard to doctrine, but the Baptists created a radically decentralized hierarchy that empowered local ministers and individual churches.

As a group of baptized believers, the Baptist are still holding to these truths that we believe can be found Scripturally within the word of God. Again, although we may not experience physical persecutions yet, to this day we are persecuted for what some would consider our traditional views on the definition of a family, same sex marriages, abortions, just to name a few of the stances we are yet being persecuted for. Although we are persecuted and sometimes even labeled “closed-minded and not evolving with the times” I will always uphold the word of God as authoritative and surmise that it has the final say in all matters.

Congregational churches can confuse the roles of deacons and elders, in a way that people may question is his function to serve or as a person who goes to board meeting. For a congregational structure is a difficult function in a large church. With this form of church government members can reject or question any form of church leadership and authority. This can lead to the churches getting rid of its pastors or people from the church board. Some of the decisions of the church are made from the vocal feelings of one person’s convincing feelings, instead of thought out considerations.

Scriptures- United Methodist share with other Christian faith community that scriptures is the primary sources in which we base our decision-making. We believe that through scriptures we see Christ because the scriptures is Christ. Apostle Paul says “ All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for training in righteousness.” In all our decision making one must rely on the scriptures for guidance. Scriptures is a sources of life and wisdom from God for all mankind and especially us who are faithful to God. In Scriptures, we find love, forgiveness, faith, and hope for example, we find in 1 Corinthians

The Word of God states in 1 Timothy 4:16: “Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.” One’s denomination must mirror the Word of God and give glory to Jesus Christ, choosing a denomination that does not fulfil this is unbiblical. The Southern Baptist denomination body highly exalts Jesus Christ in its members’ everyday life, crediting the only way to heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ. “The Southern Baptist denomination holds the Scriptures to be the ultimate source of

There are many ways to interpret a text, but for text like the scripture it take what we called the senses of Scripture to use as an application to understand the scripture. In the Chapter 6 of the book “How Do Catholics Read the Bible” entitled “How do Catholics Interpret Scripture,” the author discuss three senses of Scripture in which are various ways relate how meaning of a text is interpret, which are in literal sense, spiritual sense and fuller sense. According the author, Harrington J. Daniel, in the chapter 7 entitled How do Catholics Interpret Scripture, “the definition of the literal sense respect both the divine and human contribution of the word of God in human language… and interpreting the text in its original historical and cultural context. It asserts that one arrives at the literal sense only by means of a careful analysis of the text, within its literary and historical context.” This means that literal sense is discovered by careful and attentive study of the biblical text using all interpretive tools available, such as, archaeological evidence, for historical and literary analyses, sociological and anthropological studies to understand the culture, and whatever else can be called upon to expand one’s knowledge of the historical, literary and cultural context of the text and give the reader better understanding of the literal

It was starting to look as if politics were beginning to become more secular. As it is well known, after Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson carried out the rest of Kennedy’s term, and then ran for reelection in 1964. Johnson, a left-leaning Democrat found himself up against Barry Goldwater from the right-minded Republican Party. Early on in the 20th century, many of Protestant denominations had adopted progressive, social reformist doctrines, that many people still value to this day. Despite being Protestant, Goldwater’s platform took a much more conservative approach. This ended up backfiring on him, however, as many Christian publications stated that they opposed Goldwater’s policies. He was further stigmatized by the religious publication The Christian Century as turning his patriotic rhetoric into “religious nationalism.” To make matters worse for Goldwater, in October of 1964, less than a month before the general election, 725 Episcopalian clergy and laymen from forty-one states signed a resolution accusing him of “a transparent exploitation of racialism.” Richard Nixon, a Republican and ex-Vice President at the time, claimed that these allegations were “the most vicious in political history.” As a result, Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 election in an unprecedented landslide victory, with Barry Goldwater only winning six states: his native Arizona, and five states in the heart of the Bible Belt (Kosmin 1993:174-5). While religious leaders in the end

Church history reveals that a number of serious biblical doctrinal controversies occurred during the late 1800s and early 1900s that gave occasion for the formulation of certain fundamentalist principals to be implemented as a clarification and remedy against unbiblical manifestations. The authority of the Bible was brought into serious question.

The main two divergent group beliefs in Christianity are conservative and progressive. Conservative believes are what early Christians used to believe. As the time goes, world develops, people will become more developed and they will start thinking and interpreting things different. The other belief group among Christians is progressive thinkers who beliefs that scriptures are opinions of the authors who wrote it.

Though the early Brethren shared many beliefs with other Protestants, issuers which separated them from the state churches included discipleship and obedience, reinstitution of the New Testament church, church discipline, biblicism, and nonresistance. They also shared their faith enthusiastically with others, sending evangelists to

The aim of this essay is to evaluate three of the main structures the church has used to govern itself (Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Congregationalism) by looking at the conclusions drawn by each structure and how these conclusions have shaped their form and practice. The proposed scriptural basis of each structure will be discussed and conclusions drawn on each form of government. Finally, a conclusion will be drawn offering reasons why Presbyterianism offers a form of church government which best demonstrates New Testament principles of polity.