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1 | The Lens the World Uses | Amos 5:10 | DocTrinsograce | 243602 | ||
"Truth as a proposition is found to be offensive by what it implies. That is, if the proposition is correct I must be wrong, ergo you are judging me. Or, if we are passionate about the truth the response is normally, ‘why are you so loud or emotional. I am offended.’ Instead of asking, ‘what is it that drives you so.’ Even in our own church your banner statement, Recovering the reformed confession by Recovering reformed theology, piety, and practice offends some because it implies they need reforming. The common thread is a pervasive self centeredness that becomes the lens by which truth is viewed and ultimately rejected because the discomfort it causes takes focus off self and requires a submission to some reference point other than self." --Rev. Tom Schnable | ||||||
2 | The Lens the World Uses | Amos 5:10 | EdB | 243604 | ||
Once again there is a misuse of the word reformed. The Reformation did not reform anything. It divided the body of Christ. Never lose sight of that fact. Now some may say it was the intention to reform the church but in fact the real intention was man’s decision during this period often called the “enlightenment†to empower man to be his own head of the his own church. Christ was never consulted in the process, had He been the prayer of unity would have forced a different outcome. The Reformation was also fueled by the passion of political freedom, the political powers that be in many cases wanted to free of any oversight by Rome. The wanted to make their own rules on marriage and divorce, on war, on taxation and most of all they wanted the money that was going to Rome to remain with them. Were all Reformers atheist? No but there were atheist that had the ears of the Reformers, along with false teachers and false ministers of the Word. These men were out for personal gain and many found it in the Reformation. Almost all gained power they never would have gotten by any other means. And much to the surprise of some Reformers it cost them their lives. |
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