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Subject: Help, parents need encouragement! |
Bible Note: Dear Hank, Well said, sir. As always. Nevertheless, for those who eschew the wisdom of old-dead-guys for an imagined doctrinal superiority of not-yet-dead-guys, may I offer the following. This is Article 1 from the confession published May 8, 2006 by the National Conference for Uniting Church and Family. (Note that that was a couple of years ago, and I cannot vouch for everyone still being alive of those who penned the document. I guess I can only get just so current after all.) "We affirm that our all-wise God has revealed Himself and His will in a completed revelation -- the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments -- which is fully adequate in both content and clarity for 'everything pertaining to life (salvation) and godliness (sanctification)' including the ordering of the church and the family (2 Peter 1:3-4; 1 Timothy 3:15). "We deny that God’s people should treat His Word as inadequate for church and family life by supplementing His completed revelation with humanistic psychology, corporate business models, and modern marketing techniques." I am deeply and genuinely concerned that self-avowed believers would participate in a Study Bible Forum while continuing to hold to a uniquely anti-biblical Scripture-Plus philosophy. We pray that they honor our Lord by embracing the truth, which thing we must regularly reiterate, as you have done. (For those interested, see posts #155648, #195841, #195911, and #197446.) In Him, Doc |