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Did your congregation use "John the Baptizer" or stick with "John the Baptist?"

Also were Yahweh and/or Yeshua forbidden?

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John the Apostle (with a hard T sometimes too lol)
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John the Baptist. Which is really amazing now that I think of it. But there were some who said "the baptizer" but nothing that I could recall was ever made over it...I was pretty connected in the NI branch in a certain large area...I am just surprised I never was taught that there were sides on this issue and that I should be on a certain side.

We used both, explaining that's what the word "Baptist" means.
The old biddies and bubbas pronounced it "babdis."

I remember being a little boy and before Sunday evening service the preacher would gather all the kids up front and play "Who Am I?" and the winner would get a prize. Tie-breaking question, and I got it right! John the Baptist! And then the preacher's wife's corrected me, "It's John the Baptizer." Followed by a lengthy discourse on the Baptists, and we mustn't associate ourselves with them.

Struggler wrote:We used both, explaining that's what the word "Baptist" means.
The old biddies and bubbas pronounced it "babdis."

You forgot the eyeroll that goes along with uttering the work "babdis".

Along the same lines, I hated clinging to archaic and outdated words like epistle for letter and brethren for brothers (sorry ladies, no sistern!). "Epistle" sounded like an affliction and "brethren" was what you took for it. "I'm Peter, and I have an epistle THIS big, but I take extra-strength brethren for it!"

I remember various preachers saying John the Baptist, but would explain that he was John the Baptizer to support their water saves doctrine, even though his Baptism didn't save anybody.

If a Presbyterian minister was named John would he be John the Sprinklist or John the Sprinkler?


Is the pope a papist or a popizer?

Yahweh

Funny story. A woman did not know that was God's personal name in the Bible. Someone critical of the Bible on a call in radio show kept using the name Yahweh saying "Yahweh killed kids, Yahweh destroyed whole towns ect.". This poor woman called in and griped at him saying he needed to read the Bible because the Bible god was called God and the Lord, not Yahweh. The poor radio hosts just laughed it was too much.