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1 | Can someone help me get to God? | Rom 10:9 | prazn | 122593 | ||
In Mark 10:15, Jesus says, "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all." Little children don't know a whole lot, do they? But, they trust their fathers because they know more than the children do. At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants." - Matt 11:25 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak;..." John 16:13 Glory to God! prazn peace, prazn |
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2 | Can someone help me get to God? | Rom 10:9 | kalos | 122605 | ||
Ignorance of the Bible is no virtue; and knowledge of it is no vice. You seem to be saying that ignorance is some kind of virtue and Bible knowledge is a vice. Get out your concordance and look up every verse that contains the word "knowledge". You will find that it is not something evil. In the Dark Ages there was plenty of ignorance to go around. But I'm not convinced that the people of that time were especially virtuous. Before the Bible became available in various native languages, there is no evidence that people were more "spiritual" because they did not have access to the Bible. |
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3 | Can someone help me get to God? | Rom 10:9 | prazn | 122607 | ||
The Scriptures speak for themselves: 1 Cor 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 1 Cor 3:2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 1 Cor 3:3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men? 1 Cor 3:4 For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men? 1 Cor 3:5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 1 Cor 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 1 Cor 3:7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. peace, prazn |
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4 | Can someone help me get to God? | Rom 10:9 | kalos | 122610 | ||
Doctrine Divides '"Doctrine divides" has been the hue and cry. Yes, doctrine does divide - that’s its very purpose. It divides us from the Jehovah’s Witnesses and from those . . . who promote a distorted view of Christ and His atonement.' -- Paul R. Belli and G. Richard Fisher ____________________ It's not unusual for me 'to be in the role of looking closely at people's doctrine and seeing what's being taught and raising questions and asking whether things are sound or accurate or right and true and good, even among members of the Body of Christ, members that identify themselves with Christianity. Some people get very uncomfortable with that. They accuse us of dividing the Body and assaulting other Christians and say that we shouldn't correct each other in public...As a matter of fact, we're called heresy hunters by some in a disparaging fashion. I don't consider myself a heresy hunter at all. I consider myself a Christian who's concerned with the truth and my attempts are to try and clarify what the truth is and challenge those things that are mistaken. 'Incidentally, I am not at all placing myself above everybody else in so doing because I consider it my duty to simply use the best thinking and resources that I have to try and determine what the truth is and to promote it. But in so doing I expect that others will do the same with regard to me. My issues, my ideas, my conclusions are certainly open to scrutiny like anyone else's. I don't threaten you with the Holy Ghost machine gun if you should challenge my notions on something. I think it should be an open field here where everybody puts their cards on the table and may the best ideas win whether they're theological ideas or ethical ideas or value ideas. ____________________ "And by the way, what is wrong with being a heresy hunter? Only criminals are afraid of policemen." ____________________ 'And by the way, what is wrong with being a heresy hunter? Think about that. Would it be better if no one was willing ask the hard questions, if no one were poking around looking for theological distinctions? Is that the kind of church that you want to live in? Let's get rid of everybody who asks the hard questions or who raises the concern. Let's get rid of everyone who points the finger. Sometimes pointing fingers land on guilty subjects. And there's only one way to find out. It's to point the finger and then look at the evidence. 'Has God not commissioned us to protect His word? Has He not commissioned the church in general, and if He has then He's commissioned individual people to be more alert to that than some others. That's the illustration of the body in 1 Corinthians 12. That's why every part of the body has a particular job. We work together for the fullness of the Body. You've got everybody doing a different job. So it seems to me if God is concerned about truth then there are going to be some people placed in the body that are especially concerned about watching for the nastiness that creeps in. Didn't Paul himself say "Guard the flock"? Didn't he warn the Ephesian elders in chapter 20 of the book of Acts that this kind of thing was going to happen? Didn't he tell Titus to refute those in error? Didn't he tell Timothy that many are causing division and problems? Didn't Jesus Himself talk about this kind of thing? This is a very important part of the church.' The Bible teaches that 'it's vital that we guard the truth and watch out for it. It doesn't mean that the heresy hunters are always right. They're not. We're not. 'Can you imagine someone saying, "Oh him? He's a policeman. That jerk is always slinking around looking for someone committing a crime. What a creep." Can you imagine that? "I wish all of those policemen would just disappear." What kind of person would make a remark like that? A criminal. A criminal makes that kind of remark. Only criminals are afraid of policemen. 'I'm not a theological criminal and that's why I'm not afraid of heresy hunters. Let them come on with force and pick at me from one end to the other because if there's something wrong with my teaching it's got to go. That should be the attitude of every Christian who is working on behalf of the Body of Christ in my view. And the only ones who squawk about the heresy hunters are those that have something to fear from heresy hunters...' ____________________ Crouch's Magic Word by Gregory Koukl (www.str.org/free/commentaries/theology/crouch.htm) |
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5 | RESTORATION not reformation | Rom 10:9 | obi1kanobi | 155524 | ||
My dear Brother, Don´t you KNOW that the APOSTACY has long been in force, ever since the APOSTLES were murdered ! That´s why JESUS told Peter that HE would restore HIS church, Matt.16:15-20 RESTORATION not reformation ! |
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6 | RESTORATION not reformation | Rom 10:9 | DocTrinsograce | 155528 | ||
Statements like this reveal a lack of understanding of both the words "restoration" and "reformation." You might want to spend a little time studying -- no, even reading would help -- history. | ||||||