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1 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | EdB | 243941 | ||
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2 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | Beja | 243942 | ||
EdB, Helpful clarifications, thank you. I do think it would be implausible to completely avoid denominational differences. But I agree that etiquette in such issues should be considered crucial. Not all wrong theology should be engaged as if heresy. Beja |
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3 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | EdB | 243943 | ||
Beja If theology is considered to be valid within the scope of orthodox Christianity should it be called wrong? Or simply different. I am no talking of cultic theology but Protestant theology that does not stray the boundaries of orthodoxy. Differences can and will be seen but to label them as anything other than differences usually leads to misunderstandings, arguements, hurt feeling and outright nastiness. To refuse to down play those differences and in fact to focus upon them leads to strife, division and the appearance to the unknowing as confusion and division.. |
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4 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | Beja | 243945 | ||
EdB, I believe if something is wrong it should be called wrong. For example there is an example of whether or not to baptize infants. At the end of the day, either we are suppose to or we are not. One view must be wrong. And we ought to consider scripture carefully to decide. There is a time for all things as well. There is a time to focus on these things as we consider them and how they imply us ordering our lives and churches. And there is also a right time as you say to "down play those differences." As a baptist, I ought to be able to have edifying fellowship with a presbyterian, and not feel the need to constantly bring up our differences. All that being said however, there is a big differences between me for example deciding that infant baptism is wrong, and the forum enforcing that denominational conclusion. I am in support of me as an individual (in the appropriate course of studying individual passages and a respectful non-inflammatory way) to have the freedom to point out that a particular passage is against infant baptism and to articulate why I think that passage is against it. However, I do not want the "forum" taking that stance and then censoring those who believe in infant baptism. I want them to be free to show me why they think that passage does not come to my conclusion. We must distinguish between my ability to think (and say) something is wrong, with the forum enforcing my view. In my opinion, the real problem usually comes because none of us are discussing passages. We are only discussing theology in the absence of passages. For example, we might find ourselves discussing whether one can loose their salvation, but we aren't finding anybody studying and discussing Romans chapter 8. Or we aren't discussing those very interesting verses in Colossians chapter 1 that sound like they might be suggesting a loss of salvation as possible (though I don't believe they are.) I've not seen much actual "bible study" on here for some time. We are only discussing theological conclusions, not the passages that form the data upon which we must build those theological conclusions. In Christ, Beja |
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