I can still debate this from their perspective, and demonstrate, from Genesis to Revelations, the Lake of Fire is the eternal destination of those who died without Christ's forgiveness. You say they had it wrong. They say you have it wrong. Same book, different interpretations that lead to an impasse over such issues - the very reason there are thousands of Christian denominations.
Indeed....and it helps to understand how that happened. Jesus gave us the parable of the "wheat and the weeds" (or tares which it is believed to be a plant called Bearded Darnel which so resembles wheat in its early growing stages, that it was a blight to farmers who could not tell the real wheat from this weed until it fruited). If you look at who it was that Jesus said was the sower of the weeds, you would see his hand in all those bickering denominations.
The devil told the woman she would not die...the weeds promote that lie by teaching that we go on living in some kind of spiritual afterlife....the good go to heaven and the wicked to some kind of hell. The option of 'heaven or hell' was never offered to Israel and it was never offered to Christians either.....Christendom twisted scripture to make it seem that way.
It teaches that the "one God" of Israel somehow became three "persons" squeezed into one "head" when we find no such teaching in either Judaism or Christianity....these things were introduced long after Jesus walked the earth....he taught none of those things.
When you say that you can debate "hell" from Genesis to Revelation.....well so can I. I can show you why they are misreading scripture to promote their weed-like doctrines. I am happy to discuss them if you want to start another thread on "hell from Genesis to Revelation".
We can examine what the Bible really teaches as opposed to what people think it teaches.
There is no impasse if you know the truth, taught by the 'wheat', not the 'weeds'. The weeds are sown by the devil. It paints an awful picture of God as a cruel dictator who just wants to spoil our fun...limiting our freedom to make us feel frustrated....forcing us to live in unfulfilled misery.
That is the exact opposite of what Jehovah is. It is a lie. Jehovah is the epitome of love.
Southern Baptists tend to not specifically recite the Lord's Prayer. Prayer is personal communication time between us and god. There are no specifics other than the sincerity of the prayer.
That's interesting, as we also keep that prayer as a model...not something to recite parrot fashion. This was what Jesus recommended as the subject matter for our prayers. So, what were the points that Jesus was emphasizing? Firstly, the importance of God's name, and secondly, the anticipation of the coming of the Kingdom....something that was coming to us...not that we were going to it. It would make possible the doing of God's will on earth "as it is in heaven.....its very obvious that this hasn't happened yet.
Giving thanks to God for his many provisions is also important on a daily basis, as is asking for forgiveness for the many times we fall short. But the importance of asking God's spiritual protection from satan and his agents cannot be underestimated.
You have made a false and graven idol by even asking the question and putting what is the "model prayer" (praising and thanking god, asking forgiveness, asking our needs, they will be done, more thanks and praise) on a higher pedestal. Some Southern Baptist even take that "pray in a closet" thing literally.
We take prayer seriously but have no repetitive prayers in our meetings or in private...taking it to a closet is a bit extreme. Public prayer was conducted in Israel where one person represented the group in prayer...its the whole reason for saying "amen" as a way of saying that this is also my prayer....it is an acknowledgement of agreement. Jesus also led his apostles in prayer...and it goes without saying that prayer was a part of all Christian gatherings.
This is how I see things.
What does the word "chaste" mean? 
