Baptist baptism, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Baptism -- “On Pentecost, once the gospel message was received, the next step for the believers was baptism (Acts 2:41-47). It should be the same today.”
• Baptist Baptism, by Les Potter & Mac Woody -- “What centuries of persecution could not do, the Trojan horse of fundamentalism did magnificently.”
• Bret Baier Challenges CDC Director To Call Out Justice Sotomayor On COVID Misinformation -- “Baier began with a direct quote from Sotomayor, who claimed, ‘We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators.’”
• Dead Certain -- “And then one day, like the Grinch, I had a wonderful awful idea. I’d tell the loan company I was dead, and they would go away. Brilliant!”
• Furred Responders -- “What began in 1988 as a home-based, one-dog-at-a-time endeavor has grown into a 6-acre campus near Dripping Springs, complete with a training facility, kennel and devoted team of trainers and caregivers.”
• How Should Christians Respond to Coronavirus? -- “Lord, help us to be prepared to glorify our Savior, to reach others and to benefit spiritually from the trials that lay ahead.” (advice one pastor gave when the virus first raised its ugly head)
• John Bunyan: His Life, Times, and Work -- “...notwithstanding the many lives of Bunyan that have appeared, there is still room, and even need, for one that should aim at the strictest accuracy, and bring up to present date all that can be known concerning him.”
• Joined by a Fence -- “Fort Benton’s latest development is a barbed wire telephone communication.”
• Legal Breakdown of Bill C-4 with André Schutten of ARPA -- “The Canadian government unanimously passed Bill C-4, which renders any counselling that encourages an individual to reduce non-heterosexual attraction or behaviour as illegal.”
• Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” -- “All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). ”
• Rasmussen Poll: 56 Percent Believe Cheating Tainted Biden’s 2020 Victory -- “A total of 56% of respondents are convinced ‘it's likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,’ Rasmussen Reports said. That included 41% who said it was ‘very likely.’”
• The Battle Against Onlyism -- “As much as conservatives in 2021 want to think that they have a sturdy theology of Scripture, the reality is that they do not.”
• The church did NOT start on the Day of Pentecost -- “We undoubtedly have gleaned from the Bible that the church is the local and visible assembly of baptized believers, founded and built by Jesus Christ during His earthly ministry.”
• The Doctrine of Preservation; The Need of the Hour in the Bible Version Debate -- “All of these views affirm that God has preserved His Word, but they disagree significantly as to what that means. The positions on preservation are often closely linked with their supporters’ views on the history of the text.”
• The Providential Preservation of the Text of the New Testament -- “Just as surely as the King James text was woven into the spiritual life of Antioch in Syria, so was the modern versions text in Alexandria.”
• The Text of Reasoned Eclecticism: Is It Reasonable and Eclectic? Part One of a Four-Part Response to Dan Wallace -- “In this article...My purpose here is not to endorse the Byzantine Text in its entirety but to show that Dr. Wallace’s reasons for rejecting it are insufficient (and to clarify some peripheral misstatements in his article).”
• The Two Streams of Bibles Model of Transmission: Its Origins & Accuracy -- “These observations have significant implications for the ongoing dialogue in the Bible version debate.”
• The Wasteland of Modern Textual Criticism -- “Since 1881 and the inauguration of what was commonly referred to as the Westcott/Hort (WH) method of textual criticism, how much closer is the Academy or Church to recovering the autographs?”
• Vote-By-Mail: Most Voters Think It Will Cause More Cheating -- “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that wider use of mail-in voting will lead to more cheating in elections, including 51% who say it’s Very Likely.”