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NASB | Acts 5:34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 5:34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law [of Moses], highly esteemed by all the people, stood up in the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) and ordered that the men be taken outside for a little while. |
Bible Question:
Nolan if I can paraphrase what you said, in the case of these two nominal Christians their need for acceptance overrode the warning signs they sometimes saw. How did the leader play into this, would he soothe their concerns or was he unapproachable and therefore intimidating, or did he control and manipulate them into submission? What I’m looking for the role of the leader in all of this. You already said he was teaching junk, was that all? Many times people think to be a false teacher as spoken about various places in the Bible you have to be teaching heresy, I submit you can also be a false teacher by how you influence people. Some false teachers intimidate, control, manipulate, and exploit people to accomplish their desires. |
Bible Answer: Actually, the "leader" of the family is the wife of the man who leads the worship! You see, the man gives the lesson on Sunday mornings and provides Scripture that is based upon the Bible, this man coming from a Wesleyan/Methodist background. But the 'deceiving' comes when the family carries out their pursuits, or when they 'try to help' these other people by 'adopting' them and providing them with their own views of Scripture (and impressing that upon them) and trying to 'right' the 'wrong' in their lives. And this is accomplished solely through the woman- the wife of the man who leads the worship. It is through these 'ideas' and their mentality of making a new neighborhood of people in the land that they own so that these people could all join in their worship and be considered as 'family'.. It sounds a bit too 'cultish' for me, and I will not involve myself with them any further. The idea of starting new churches and planting new churches is a good idea! But a lot must be said of where tradition plays into the idea of church growth- tradition being a formidable ally that protects against many false teachings that may flare up. But tradition, if practiced 'religiously' and not compared closely with Scripture, can also be a sword, leading people astray (a.k.a. the Catholic Church). |