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1 | Once upon a time | Eph 4:11 | kalos | 118758 | ||
"Once upon a time in a village called Vanity Fair there dwelt a community made up of sinners, saints and saint wannabes. The saints let their light shine for their Lord in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Under the shelter of God's wings, all was well until a look-alike professor of religion took into his head the strangest fantasy ever known. He imagined that his brethren were inferior to him in his great understanding of the Word of the Lord. He decided that he alone, among the saints, was right and everyone else was wrong. "In his dementia was born the idea that all he needed was his Bible and no outside help. He reasoned since (other) men were fallible, yet he himself was not, that he would ignore the teachers that his Savior had given to the church. He knew the Scriptures taught that the Spirit had given gifts to men and that his Lord had given those gifted men, including pastors and teachers, to the church. But since the idea did not seem reasonable to him, he thought it best to ignore that Scripture and devise some scheme to explain away what it clearly said and meant..." |
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2 | Once upon a time | Eph 4:11 | DocTrinsograce | 131341 | ||
A very good tale, kalos! Thank you! The converse of this tale is the odd notion that one can only learn from the guy that Peter mystically zotted with the laying on of hands who then zotted someone else who zotted someone else who zotted someone else... etc. It made me mindful of Paul's words in 2 Timothy 2:2 "And what things you heard from me through many witnesses, commit these things to faithful men, such as will be competent also to teach others." No zotting there, but clearly the teaching of Christ and the apostles comes to us through "faithful men." Praise God! (By the way, I am greatly edified by going back over your previous posts. Thank you for so patiently and persistently feeding His sheep!) |
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3 | Once upon a time | Eph 4:11 | Emmaus | 131358 | ||
Doc, "It made me mindful of Paul's words in 2 Timothy 2:2 "And what things you heard from me through many witnesses, commit these things to faithful men, such as will be competent also to teach others." No zotting there, but clearly the teaching of Christ and the apostles comes to us through "faithful men." Praise God!" Context Doc, context! How could you have missed this verse in the very same letter or the verse from 1 Timothy 4:14. 2 Tim 1:6 "For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands." 1 Tim 4:14 "Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery." See also Numbers 27:18-23; Deuteronomy 34:9; Acts 6:6; 13:31. Emmaus |
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4 | Once upon a time | Eph 4:11 | DocTrinsograce | 131359 | ||
I figured our more Pentecostal leaning buddies might shed some light on the handling of those verses. Hey, if Timothy got zotted by Paul, who zotted Paul? Galatians 1:17 indicates he was off working as an apostle long before he got into zot range of an apostle. |
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5 | Once upon a time | Eph 4:11 | Emmaus | 131367 | ||
Doc, Paul was a unique case of one called "out of time" by Jesus on the road to Damascus. But even he had hands laid on him before being sent on the speacial mission God had him set aside for. (Acts 13:3) He was not a Lone Ranger. Emmaus |
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6 | Once upon a time | Eph 4:11 | Emmaus | 131368 | ||
Doc, Not to mention that immediately after his knock down experience, Paul had hand laid on him by Ananis at God's command, Ananias' reluctance not withstanding. Acts 9;11-17. Emmaus |
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