Fundamental Baptist Christian

Well, it looks like this blog will still be up but no longer be updated. That means some posts in here may get updated. However, I may update some posts here and there to the new blog. The URL can be found here:  Reformed Baptist Christian I may have decided to move from David W. Cloud's style of fundamentalism (that is, non-Calvinist respecting Calvinist brethren) to becoming more or less a Calvinist. I've decided to move away from moderate fundamentalism (which was my starting point, I soon started to attend a fundamental Baptist church where it's KJV Only after some time I stagnated in my Christian faith (and I was the only saved person), and they say, "Well, why don't you just attend mass. It's just the same!" Well, I finally managed to go to church slowly but it wasn't easy. I longed to be in fellowship but as said, I really was constrained and too afraid to talk about it. All that lack of fellowship in my college years (plus studying in a Catholi...

It's been ten years since this blog started. Yes, this blog is still up for references. Old articles may get edited for errors when need be. However, I decided that it may be time to finally decided that maybe, just maybe, most of my future posts will be found here at Reformed Blogging .  Reasons? I was thinking about that while I started out being a Fundamental Baptist - I feel more like shifting towards Reformed Theology. Sure, there are Fundamental Baptists out there (such as David W. Cloud) who embrace Calvinists while rejecting Calvinism - I feel Calvinism's history actually runs deeper with many of the materials I'm using. The Authorized Version of 1611 (AV1611) commonly known as the King James Version (KJV) was translated by Calvinist scholars. The Reformation provided materials that would be used by the Puritan scholars that would be used to give God's preserved word in English. The Geneva Study Bible by John Calvin would also prove helpful in the formation of t...

One reason that Christmas can be the most hypocritical time of the year is because of wicked people. Although Jesus-is-Savior by the conspiracy nut David J. Stewart should be avoided - he does have a valid point in talking about hypocritical Christmas charity. Some wicked rich men use Christmas as a time to make it look like they're so good. I've noticed some wicked rich men who have many mistresses and involved in illegal activities use Christmas as their favorite time of the year. Christmas charity is so hypocritical considering that it's really the most materialistic time of the year. Some wicked people act like Santa Claus whenever they do Christmas charities. Doesn't Santa Claus (as a fictional character) only come once-a-year as told in storybooks and those "innocent little white lies"? Well, that's what makes Christmas charity really hypocritical. There is a couple of stuff that Stewart and the late Jack T. Chick get a lot about Christmas. They do h...

It's the Christmas season where it seems Christians are still arguing non-stop about whether or not they should celebrate it if they're allowed to celebrate it, or if is Christmas pagan. Unfortunately, some of the Puritans (such as Arthur W. Pink) have gone too far with the whole Christmas debate. Charles H. Spurgeon himself had a love and hate relationship with Christmas. What I'd say is that while Christians may be spending too much time debating about Christmas - they fail to see evangelism opportunities like there is during Halloween. I do agree Christians are not to decorate their homes like the heathen on Halloween - I don't think anything is wrong with Christmas decorations. How many times do we need to tell you that Jeremiah 10:3-5 is not about Christmas trees? As Christmas approaches this COVID-19 season then it's time to really say that Christmas evangelism still needs to continue. The idea of a wonderful, magical Christmas is absurd. Andy Williams' so...

Yesterday was Reformation Day. Today is November 1 or All Saint's Day for Roman Catholics. There are many issues with the Reformation. I was told before that I didn't know how to pray because my "god" is Martin Luther. The name Protestant was simply dubbed on those who protested against the Roman Catholic institution. Some Protestants have the right to say that they're  not Protestant but just Christian. There are Baptists who don't consider themselves Protestants even if they do embrace non-Baptist Christians or reject the Baptist Bride doctrine. What was the real big issue of the Reformation? Was it about Luther or John Calvin? Was it about John Knox, Uldrich Zwingli, or any other person dubbed as a Protestant reformer? No, the big issue of the Reformation is all about focusing on the Word of God - that's what Sola Scriptura actually means.  What therefore is Sola Scriptura? Sola Scriptura is defined as follows by Ligonier Ministries' article " ...

It's very easy to criticize Roman Catholicism for the charges of sodomy done by priests raping boys. However, it's probably very easy to forget that LGBT churches are now on the rise and have infiltrated evangelical churches. I heard of Alabama Baptist Church having the issue of a female pastor performing a lesbian wedding. It would be stupid to keep raising up the issue of homosexual priests and nuns but not to target homosexual pastors and female church authorities. Make no mistake - LGBT churches are on the rise and the acronym means Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender. All these are an abomination before God. Martin Luther's trip to Rome revealed all the sins in it. I remembered reading the now out-of-print book "Babylon Mystery Religion" by Ralph Woodrow (which he should revise without references to the faulty "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop) talking about Luther's trip to Rome. Luther witnessed the worst sexual immoralities such as priests ...

It's easy to be too focused on Roman Catholicism without considering that every cult has its own set of rivals. Consider the history of religion when cults appear - rival cults also appear. Islam has been rivals with contemporary Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism also has rivals in the form of anti-Catholic cults. Just because someone speaks against Rome doesn't mean they're automatically saved. Some of the most known critics of Rome like the Members of the Church of God International (MCGI), Seventh Day Adventists (SDA), Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC), Mormons, Christian Science, Charismatics, and the Jehovah's Witnesses but they all teach false plans of salvation. Some of these anti-Catholic cults even outright deny the Deity of Christ such as the INC and the Jehovah's Witnesses. The Mormons also have bizarre teachings that are hardly known by the public today such as Jesus being Satan's half-brother or that God the Father had sex with Mary, Jesus'...

Should it be surprising that Pope Francis is now supporting same-sex civil unions? Pope Francis' statement, "If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?" is true because Christians are called to love homosexuals to tell them the truth and Jesus' free gift of forgiveness. However, Christians are not told to condone homosexual unions of any kind whether the ceremony was performed in a Baptist church, a Protestant church, a Roman Catholic parish, or even the civil courts. Homosexuality will always be wrong even if Christians are told to advocate for the basic rights of homosexuals to basic needs. However, Christians still have the right not to employ homosexuals like a factory has the right (or duty) not to employ anyone who doesn't meet certain qualifications or is too short or too sickly for the task. The very character of the Popes can make anyone wonder if they're indeed the successors of Peter. Reading through Peter, we can read t...

The Patriot Post Although Baptists may or may not consider themselves as Protestants - they still need to consider the Reformation as part of church history. Without the Reformation - we wouldn't get the King James Version (KJV) which followed centuries later. The KJV was based on several other English Bibles such as the Matthew Bible, the Tyndale Bible, and the Geneva Bible. The Reformation reached its 500th year last 2017 and it's reached its 503rd year this 2020. 2020 is also a bad year because of the COVID-19 crisis. Yes, there were already Christians against Rome before the Protestant Reformation happened. There were the Waldenses, Mennonites, and Baptists among groups who were martyred before the rise of Martin Luther. Though one quote by Paul Washer of Heartcry Missionary says, "The reformers didn't want to be reformers - they just wanted to be biblical!" I woudl agree with that though the event has been known as Reformation Day - celebrating another milest...

October is always associated with the Reformation month aside from the Rosary month. It's very easy to associate it with Martin Luther's well-known protest on October 31, 1517, that eventually led to the Diet of Worms in 1521. Luther's legacy was known to have been an Augustinian monk who found the truth. The protest itself got some Christians involved to be labeled as Protestants . Before the Protestants - there were already other Christian groups that opposed Rome. Jan Hus and Girolamo Savonarola were martyrs before the Reformation. There were some pre-Reformation Christians who were martyred during the Dark Ages as they openly practiced believes' baptism. I heard that they were called Baptists because they openly practiced baptism by immersion. Remember John the Baptist was called a baptist not because he founded a denomination but because he baptized people.  Yes, there's the call to say that the Reformation is far from over . The Counter-Reformation is also fa...

Calvinism has indeed started out as a pet issue but it has turned into a huge quarrel. Whether Baptists like to admit it or not - here are some important facts that they may have missed: The King James Version (KJV) in its history was translated by mostly Calvinist scholars namely the Puritans.  Before the KJV - other Protestant translations also included the Geneva Bible which was also used in the process of compiling the KJV.  Many of the songwriters of the hymns such as "Amazing Grace" were Calvinists. Many of the great commentators of the Scriptures were also Calvinists such as Matthew Henry, John Gill, and the writers of the "Commentary Critical and Explanatory of the Whole Bible" namely  Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset, and David Brown. The great Baptist preacher of England, Charles H. Spurgeon, was also a Calvinist. Not to mention, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith adhered to Calvinism. David W. Cloud of Way of Life Literature also said the followin...

It's August 2020 and the COVID-19 crisis is still ongoing now, isn't it? Well, it's very easy to start off with another "end times" hype, right? The big problem for some time and a big sign of the last days is the end-times hype. Yes, it's a sign of the last days. The Bible uses the term "last days" a lot and Paul warned Timothy of the last days . Did it seem to be a prophecy for centuries after Timothy would have died? It would be doubtful since Paul was giving Timothy advice on how to live in the last days. Yes, the last days already started ever since Jesus ascended into Heaven. We don't know when's the last of the last days. Unfortunately, some people like the late Harold Camping just love to make up speculations. Even some fake Rapture dates were made. Who can ever forget the fake assumption that the Rapture would hit last December 21, 2012? Guess what? It's already past December 21, 2012, and it's been seven years since that dat...

This is really crazy meme which suggests that Noah was supposedly a conspiracy theorist. First, we need to define what a conspiracy theory is. Dictionary.com defines conspiracy theories as follows: A theory that rejects the standard explanation for an event and instead credits a covert group or organization with carrying out a secret plot. A belief that a particular unexplained event was caused by such a covert group. The idea that many important political events or economic and social trends are the products of deceptive plots that are largely unknown to the general public. We need to consider that Noah had a divine revelation from God. Noah was forewarned by God that a great flood was about to come in due time. That doesn't make Noah a conspiracy theorist because he didn't formulate any theory. He was given a prophecy and not some complex theory. That makes him different from the likes of Alex Jones, Texxe Marrs, and David J. Stewart. Did Jones, Marrs, and Stewart...