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1st: Ask Christ to be your personal Lord and Savior. Tell Him that you’re sorry for all the sins you have committed and tell Him that you are committed to believe in Him for the rest of your life. After that, you’re saved.

2nd: Read your Bible. God speaks to you in a way that I can’t explain. I recommend this Bible right here. It is my favorite Bible and I recommend it for new believers because of the translation (NLT). The NLT is an extremely easy translation, so that is why it gets recommended to new believers because they are just starting off.

3rd. Whenever you feel comfortable, find a local church. A church helps you worship God, helps you learn more about God, and you make friends with other saints in Christ like you.

Have you read 2 Corinthians? You might want to be careful about being unequally yoked.

Just because your fiancée isn't on good terms with the Catholic church doesn't mean she can't investigate the faith! Why not invite her to a service at (say) an evangelical church?

Maybe get her an apologetics book? An elder at church highly recommended Evidence That Demands Verdict as it helped him in his early walk with God:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Evidence-That-Demands-Verdict-McDowell/dp/185078552X

I always hear good things about Cold Case Christianity too.

It might be a great idea for you guys to read the gospels together. If you'd prefer to listen to it you can get a free download of the bible in most languages here (I even managed to get a Welsh one):

https://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/

YouVersion is also great:

https://www.youversion.com/

God bless friend.

Somebody else already suggested r/Reformed, but I'll suggest a couple of less known subs. There's r/ReformedBaptist and r/1689Federalism. They're both low traffic subs, and the latter has just recently started, but there's still some good info to look into there.

Right now is a pretty exciting time for Baptists due to the "rediscovery" of our Reformed/ Calvinist roots. It's difficult to find Baptist scholarship of this caliber, but some names to look for include Richard Barcellos, James Renihan, and Pascal Denault. Some historic names to look into are Benjamin Keach, William Kiffin, John Gill, William Gadsby, Charles Spurgeon, A.W. Pink, and James Petigrue Boyce.

One place I'd recommend starting from is some books. Like I said, Baptists haven't written on this stuff in a while, so there are no recent Systematic Theologies that I'm aware of. The closest you'll find is A Body of Doctinal Divinity by John Gill (PDF warning) or Abstract Of Systematic Theology by James Petigru Boyce. If you prefer hard copies, you can probably find them on Amazon.

Next, if you've been studying Reformed Theology, you should be aware that Baptists have their own distinct Covenant Theology that does not lead to Infant Baptism. It's really unfortunate that so many Baptists discover Covenant Theology and throw it away because it leads to Infant Baptism. In our development of Covenant Theology, called 1689 Federalism, we use the idea of the covenants to formulate "Believer's Baptism". There others who reject our 1689 Federalism for what is called New Covenant Theology, which attempts to bridge Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism. All of this can be found online at Wikipedia if you want to read more about it. There's also some scholarship available on the topic. The Distinctives of Baptist Covenant Theology by Pascal Denault is a wonderful book to get started on this subject.

Finally, I encourage you to read the historic Baptist confessions. You can find the 1689 LBCF here. It is based off of the Westminster Confession that the Presbyterians use. It's almost identical, except for a few changes of wording, and it's Congregationalist and Credobaptist affirmations. The Baptists of the 17th Century based their confession on the Westminster Standards to show their unity in Reformed doctrine. Although most Reformed Paedobaptists like to say that we're not "R"eformed, there is very little difference between us in the grand scheme of things, and Baptists holding to the 1689 LBCF and 1646 LBCF are always included in discussions relating to historic Reformed faith.

Two books I highly recommend are:

The Case for Traditional Protestantism by Terry Johnson

Reformation Theology: A Systematic Summary by Matthew Barrett

The latter is an EXCELLENT work of scholarship, and is an Historical Theology of the Reformation. It begins with Medieval Catholic Theology to provide context to the Reformation and goes from there explaining the history of each doctrine in light of the Reformation and it's Reformers in a Systematic layout. with plenty of footnotes and book references, it should provide you with just about anything you need to know, and how to find it.

The other book by Terry Johnson is also an excellent case defending the Solas of the Reformation, including Sola Scriptura. It should be pointed out that the Reformers did not discredit the authority of the Church Fathers, but instead charged that the final authority rests in scripture. This is why, like you said, they were constantly referencing the Church Fathers to show that these ideas were not new. Calvinism and the Doctrines of Grace were nothing new in his day. Just about everything is founded on Augustine's debate with Pelagius on the role of God's Sovereignty and Man's Free Will in salvation. This was quite common for the Reformers to quote from earlier sources other than the Bible.

Dr. Craig Keener has a good book on this. He is a highly respected biblical scholar who has taught at several different seminaries of different traditions and is widely published. This is a large book, but it looks at both the biblical miracle accounts and historical accounts, including contemporary accounts. I think his second volume that he's currently working on will have more contemporary accounts, and I heard he is sharing all types of documentation from personal accounts throughout the world, lots from Africa but also Asia and the United States too.

Sorry for the late reply; been off reddit for a while.

http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Credibility-Testament-Accounts-Volume/dp/0801039525

Do you have a source for this? In my reading of history I haven’t seen evidence of this. In fact the gospel of Thomas is a pretty recent discovery. There were many gnostic writing but there was never any contention that these writings were part of the Christian Scripture; in fact this was one of the key claims of the Gnostics, that they had a revelation special to them that was kept from the church as a whole. So there was never any debate to include the gospel of Thomas in the canon. I recommend a couple of resources to you:
A New Eusebius is a source book of documents from the early church period (to 313), and includes readings from the Gospel of Thomas and other gnostic works

The Question of the Canon considers how the Scriptures progressed from a few books and letter received as words from God into their present “Bible” form. Lots of good research pulled together here.

Indian thinker Vishal Mangalwadi takes this one step further and proposes in his book The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization that the Bible had the biggest influence on the formation of the Western culture and civilization in general as we know it today. There's a short Video summary on YouTube and some relating articles on his website.

Other reviewers on Amazon beg to differ.

Maybe a few. Look for them in libraries before you buy. Don't be afraid to use Inter-Library-Loan.

• https://www.amazon.com/Patrology-Set-Johannes-Quasten-S-T-D/dp/0870611410
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Early-Fathers-Three-Set/dp/0814610250
  
• https://www.amazon.com/HISTORY-DOGMAS-I-Antenicene-Theology-ebook/dp/B018Y8NUCO
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Church-Fathers-John-Willis/dp/0898708931
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Know-Best-Essential-Teachings/dp/1933919345