Subject: Why Papal rule all wrong? |
Bible Note: Okay, staying away from the specific issues how is that different than the Baptist board saying to be baptized you must be immersed? Or the Pentecostal’s general boards saying the initial evidence of the infilling of the Holy spirit is speaking in tongues? Are they not claiming what could be considered divine interpretation of the Scripture? Are not their findings then viewed as infallible within the denomination? Take for example the Assemblies of God has had it a policy/rule/tenet of faith that no divorced man could ever become a Pastor. This rule has stood since 1912 and the founding of the denomination, yet this week in Kansas they voted it down. Before this change the claim was the divine will of God is that no divorced man should be a pastor. Now they say that isn’t right that God forgives any divorce that occurred before salvation. Isn’t just the same as the Pope declaring it is the divine will of God that no Catholic should use birth control? Again I know we can debate each issue but ignoring the issues look at the principal involved, isn’t it the same? Each one is saying they have a the “right’ interpretation of the scripture. The Catholics just say it is infallible, when we know it not Saint Christopher being an example. AG saying it is the correct interpretation and refusing to change it even after many challenges until this year. There are many more examples. |