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NASB | John 6:37 "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:37 "All that My Father gives Me will come to Me; and the one who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out [I will never, never reject anyone who follows Me]. |
Bible Question:
Doc, I'm just trying to make sense out of what I see in my Bible and what I see and hear in the world. Now according to what I see from you, we're NOT supposed to follow "the practices of the primitive church in Acts" in spite of their following Jesus' Words. How can this be right? Please explain. I'm certainly NOT saying baptism is essential to this process. |
Bible Answer: Dear Inquisitor, You are creating a false dichotomy here. Furthermore, I have nowhere said that we ought not to follow the example of the primitive church. Had I intended that I would have written that. As our Brother Brad has commented, we are to base our orthodoxy and orthopraxy on the full revelation of Scripture. This is what is meant by sola scriptura. We do not base our thinking and our practice solely on narrative -- as has been done by the Campbellites to whom you have presumably been exposed. Our Lord has seen fit to provide us with didactic writings from which we may profit (2 Peter 3:15-16). The didactic gives explicit instruction that can be lacking in the narrative. Frankly, the early churches had enormous problems -- for which thing God in His providence has allowed us enormous insight. For example, the problems at the church in Corinth gave rise to Paul's epistles. Anyway, relative to baptism: baptism is something that the saved do, not something that makes them saved. Birds fly because they are birds, flying does not make them birds. In Him, Doc |