Is there really much religious choice?

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[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Do the Anabaptists have any intellectual foundation other than the New Testament? If they reject all of the post-Biblical scholarship as paganism and don't have anything to replace it, then this isn't much to go on.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

post-Biblical scholarship

What is this? What do you mean?

[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The writings of the early Church fathers and scholastic philosophers, for example.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Isn't "extra-Biblical" a better term, then? Since a lot of it has its origin in ancient Greek philosophy.

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sorry, I don't know. I would be interested in the answer if you find it.

[–]Cornfed[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From what I read online, Anabaptists believe the Bible alone is authoritative as interpreted by a given congregation, which is no good IMO.

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as interpreted by a given congregation

It's good if their assessment is accurate. That particular phrase leaves a lot of room for variations that can't be valid.