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NASB | Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household: |
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Subject: What is your identity in Christ? |
Bible Note: You wrote: "I am a saint, a child of God, who occasionally still sins." What do you think the term "sinner IN PRACTICE" means, Bill? Someone who commits sins (and if your life is like mine and most of those I know, I hope that "occasionally" is an understatement). You wrote: "Well, brother, I feel we've probably taken this as far as is profitable. You can cling to what you allege that Catholics, Protestants, Reformed, Dispensationalists, Calvin, Luther, Augustine, Edwards, and Spurgeon say. I'm going to 'rest' in Sola Scriptura." Now you are both demonstrating ignorance and arrogance, Bill. Where do you think "sola Scriptura" came from? Where do you think it would be today without God's intervention through the lives of Luther and Calvin? Do you not realize the way in which Augustine and Edwards and Spurgeon preserved and passed on the biblical idea of grace? To spit on their contributions in the way you do really makes me think much less of you, because somehow you think that you have become wiser than all the saints who have come before, and that there is absolutely nothing to be gleaned from their application of "sola Scriptura." Speaking of sola Scriptura, there didn't seem to be much Scriptura in your post here, while mine seems to be replete with it. And I must confess that your view seems to be anything but the whole counsel of God. It's more like "sola the Scriptura that I am comfortable with." Your NT must be a lot thinner than mine, because while you reject law wholesale, I see that the God of the New Testament very much cares whether believers worship him alone, refrain from stealing and cheating on their spouses, reject the building of idols, abstain from blaspheming, tell the truth, and honor their parents. Your view is the one that has been the most disastrous to evangelicalism in America, and is the primary reason why the Church is the fat, lazy, impotent element of society that it is, looking very much like the world we are supposedly so set apart from. "For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?" --1 Peter 4:17 --Joe! |