Bible Believers Treatment of Bible Believers

The Civil War Among Bible Believers

THEME: Lessons we can learn from our history as Bible Believers of our treatment of other Bible Believers.

REAL PUBLIC PERSECTION

• Calvin's heavy handedness
• Zwingli drowning of baptists?

Persecutions by the PURITANS

• Roger Williams perseucation in New England
• John Clark, Obadiah Holmes PURITANS busted down the door during service and took them to a puritan church service, jail and court [John Clark defends Believer's baptism], beat Obadiah Holmes "slashes to his back", "You have whipped me as with roses"
• Doing God's service when putting to death
• Roger Wiliam's "a bloody tenant yet more bloody"
• John Leeland
• Isaac Backus

Ministry Wrongs

• abuse of power