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1001 | why is Acts 2:44 not practiced today | Acts 2:44 | Rowdy | 107713 | ||
After looking at this question and some of the answers, I have to agree with some of the answers and disagree with others. Why do we not have this kind of oneness, "one mind, one faith, one baptism, etc?" Basically because we as human beings become lazy and complacent with our faith. We all need to become more like the Bereans and study; testing and proving all believers/teachers to come in our midst. If their words aren't in accordance with God's word, then there's bascially two responses: 1)teach them as Annanias and Saphira did Stephen or 2)upon verifying that they're not interested in following God's word, pray with them and for them to see the error of their ways. Remember, Christ put down the Pharisees and Saducees for this same kind of problem. They had become leaders of their people and built up tremendous amounts of additional teaching, some of which altered and perverted God's will. Example: Corban, the practice of getting out of taking care of their parents by giving this financial support to some special account for God's sake. Like Samuel said to Saul: It is better to obey God than to make sacrifice. The way God sees it: we're just making that "sacrifice" to suit our purposes and really get away with some kind of sin in our lives. In summary, I believe it is very much possible for God's people everywhere in the world to agree on the oneness of Christianity if we identify all the proper limitations of God's word. In other words, "speak where the Bible speaks and be silent when the Bible is silent" and allow for different ways of doing those things. Now, you may say I sound ultra-conservative but believe me there are a multitude of people I call brethren that are far more conservative and some far more liberal than me. So I like to think I'm somewhere in the middle. The most important item to take from all this discussion (in my opinion) is to remember God's top priority is to follow His ultimate example of love (His Son) and give Him the glory. I'd be genuinely interested in your response. | ||||||
1002 | Is this a Christian Forum? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 105508 | ||
I'm afraid my initial posting didn't actually get posted, my mistake. I'm new at this and chose Rowdy as a nickname, used in another time and place. | ||||||
1003 | Is this a Christian Forum? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 105453 | ||
Supplement to my previous statement: In an effort to be brief, I need to get to the bottom line. That is, we all need to realize this country, over the last several decades (my generation) has taken several turns for the worst. We've taken prayer out of our schools and ushered in a tremendous amount of violence into our video industry. For a long time, we took out the option for a person committing a capitol crime and receive a form of capitol punishment which is ordained by God. Now, our country is realizing its mistakes and we're starting to re-evaluate those mistakes but it's going to take a long time to reverse this course. Like the saying goes, you can't make a U-Turn with a battleship in just a few minutes or a few yards. Anyway, back to being brief. To sum it up, we all need to realize the tremendous example we've been given and reacquaint ourselves with our Lord and Saviour. Jesus had incredible patience. According to the scriptures, he spent his whole entire life without sin, yet he was angry with one single thing. It wasn't the way he was treated in that sorry excuse of a trial or the undeserved manner of his death. He got angry over the way His Father's house was being abused. We need to pick our battles and prioritize like He did. There are so many things wrong with this world but over all, I have to say this forum is a definite step in the right direction. We all should resolve to live up to the terms and conditions that we all agreed to when we signed up. About being a Bible Bully, we should realize that the Bible does a fine job of defending itself and God, its Author. Our job is to let the image of that same Author shine through us. At the end of every day of our lives, we need to be prepared to ask ourselves, did we bring glory to our God. Did we conduct ourselves in such a way, that we would be arrested for being christians in the 1st century? Think of what those folks went thru and our petty concerns pale in significance. Let's (including me) all resolve to leave the world a better place than we found it and the only way you can make certain of that is to answer those questions above carefully with a clear and forgivin conscience. Well, you've probably figured out by now, it's tough for me to be brief but if you take some advice from this old man and follow the admonitions above, this world will be better place. One last reminder and I'll hush, at least for now: Remember we're on a mission to forgive at least as much as we have received from the King of Kings. If we don't, I don't think we're going to receive a second chance, come judgement day, like that unforgiving fellow in the parable. |
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