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Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter  No one is saying you have to acknowledge anything Josh. Why are you so adamant about this? |
Are you kidding, Brother? I'm not being adamant. I'm responding to your post asserting that I was at a failure to recognize
yada yada yada. My own church calls itself
Reformed, I'm not up in arms about it. I'm just giving my
. It's not sweat off my back in the long run. Just observations being made.
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One more thing... I am not so sure the Particular Baptists wouldn't consider themsleves to be Reformed. The distinction of Particular was meant mainly to emphasis that they as Baptist held to reformational soteriology as opposed to the anabaptist. That was the struggle. They were accused of being anabaptists of the radical reformation. The anabaptists were considered radical reformers. So reformed was not the problem here when they made distinctive terms to define themselves by.
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Regardless of your lack of surety, the early Baptists
didn't call themselves
Reformed, even though they
could have. Apparently they didn't do so because, although they shared soteriology and many other doctrines with their padeobaptist Brethren, they didn't share their view of the Church, Sacraments, and Baptism. So, to distinguish themselves from such, they didn't call themselves
Reformed. It does not follow that they were enemies just because they didn't have the same name.
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As I noted before the terms people are adhering to are to line themselves with their roots as opposed antithetically to something else. I don't why you are having problems with this Josh. I guess I am proud that my heritage is from the reformation instead of the radical reformation.
I guess I am a Reformed Baptist by today's standards.
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Again, Brother Randy, I'm not "having problems" with anything. I'm making observations. Why are you so adamant about this?
