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Old 02-07-2010, 02:22 PM
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Re: Confess your sin, UPCI!
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Originally Posted by Pressing-On View Post
From reading on the previous forums it seems that many said that, originally, the "differing" views on the salvational message sounded so alike that you couldn't distinguish the two. Now it's been said that the differences are very apparent and couldn't possibly abide together.

So, wouldn't the two have drifted apart even without an Affirmation Statement? It seems like they would have. Perhaps the AF helped it along but, today it seems it would have ended in a divide anyway, JMO.

How can God, who is so precise on plans and timing, have two plans of salvation?
They would only drift apart if one group or the other made it a divisive issue. The affirmation statement was part of that divisive direction.

We lost some good men when that happened.
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