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1 | catholic and protestant salvation view | Eph 4:3 | Grace and Truth | 50128 | ||
1. The writer of Hebrews affirmed that Moses, in constructing the tabernacle, was warned by God that he must “make all things according to the pattern,” which was shown to him at Horeb (Heb. 8:5). Do we, as recipients of the “better covenant” (Heb. 7:22; 8:6), sustain a lesser responsibility as we minister to God in his church – of which the tabernacle was but an inferior type (cf. Heb. 9:1-10)? It is unbelievable that anyone would dare to argue such. 2. John unequivocally states that those who go beyond the “teaching of Christ” have no fellowship with God (2 John 9). Conclusion All of these passages, and numerous others, forcefully reveal that there is a divine standard to which men are accountable. The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of God, with its inscribed obligations, abides (cf. 1 Pet. 1:24-25). In physics there is a law known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It suggests that things proceed toward a state of degeneration. It might also be argued that there is sort of a Second Law in the spiritual realm as well. Men tend to drift; the pure frequently becomes contaminated. Such was never more clearly indicated than in the current status of the church of God. This is not the time to relax the call for a restoration to the ancient order of Christianity. We are truly at the crossroads! |
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2 | catholic and protestant salvation view | Eph 4:3 | srbaegon | 50139 | ||
Hello Grace and Truth Thank you for the exhortation to remain firm to Scripture. I know enough about the Restoration movement (from a former coworker) to understand that it had a similar desire to the Plymouth Brethren (my group)--return to Scriptural truth and simplicity. They sprang up in separate geograpical areas at approximately the same time with the same intent. Yet, there are wide divisions in doctrine (esp. water baptism). So even in the interest of Scriptural purity, men fail miserably. Steve |
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