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1 | What is predetermination all about | John 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 241895 | ||
Hi, EdB... No, I am not saying "that anyone that doesn't read the scriptures as I do is resisting the scripture..." I am saying that the Scriptures can defend itself. I am saying that the Holy Spirit will inevitably use the Word for His purposes. Which thing will include the unity of the Body (as though His church could be anything other than what He has made it). I understand that there are those who believe that the Word cannot be sufficiently understood by the masses without a pastor or a priest to properly interpret it. Many of these same people insist on a "literal interpretation of the Scriptures" -- at least until the Scriptures read contrary to their dearest held beliefs. Can people be deceived as justme is pointing out in post #241887? Yes, they can. This is why Paul warns that God's own must "no longer be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming." That safe and secure foundation is the Word itself. In a Study Bible Forum, let us continue to point to the Bible. Let us especially do that when someone asks a Biblical question. The more we do that, the more we affirm a high view of Scripture. The less we do that, the more we affirm a belief in the inadequacy of Scriptures. In Him, Doc "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith, in God's excellent Word! What more can be said than to you God hath said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?" --Robert Keene |
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2 | What is predetermination all about | John 3:16 | EdB | 241898 | ||
I agree let us point to the Bible but let us not just point to the proof texts used to support our position. Let us point to the whole of scripture and admonish the person to show themselves as approved of God and to rightly divide it, learning not just pick out texts to support an agenda. I'm not sure why you included this but I never suggestted she need to depend on anyone to interpret scripture for her. I suggestted she sought her pastor so he could in all honesty give her both sides of the debate and help her understand why the denomination she was a part of felt as it did. I suggested this to help her be at peace in the church God had placed her. As I said there are equally able, talented, faithful, knowledgeable, dedicated, honest, wise, sprit led students, scholars and theologians on both sides of this issue. All believe they are lead to their position by the Holy Spirit and to suggest otherwise is unfair and untrue. |
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