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Originally Posted by snicker1986
Maybe, just maybe God is bigger than we are. Maybe if we get him out of the box that we keep him in, he can do more than we think he can.
Paul spoke about about being under the law to those under the law, and not being under the law to those not under the law.
Perhaps God can meet people in different ways, and is more concerned about RELATIONSHIP than strict adherance to man's various interpretations of what he wants. For every UPC three-stepper, or apostolic one stepper, you can find another dozen various Christians who sincerely feel, based on much study and prayer, that THEY have the ONLY way to salvation.
It must make God both laugh and sigh at the same time. When we get to heaven, I think we'll all be very surprised by who is there, and who is not
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Let us not forget the admonition in
Jude 1:3 "Beloved, when
I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you,
and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."
He tells us to "earnestly contend" for that "common" faith.
Standing for what someone believes, as truth, does not mean that we put others in some box that God cannot reach, that we do not associate our lives with those that do not view things quite like we do.
Being that there are various views and beliefs, it's best to follow after what we, ourselves, perceive as truth and not worry about what others believe or what they are doing. We can and only will get wadded up like a bad "junk drawer".
I'm not interested in that, at all.