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Originally Posted by Joelel
[B][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Navy"]Hi Digging, People who believe false teaching are weak.God has received them but how many lies can you believe and how much truth can you reject before God rejects you is the question? I don't know,it's up to him.
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That's my point exactly.
I do believe that someone who holds to the full version of these doctrines (I haven't looked at all of them but I am going by good faith that Epley knows what he is talking about) is believing a false doctrine that will not save.
But who knows at what level these people believe these doctrines?
At what level do pentecostals believe what their preacher preaches?
They don't believe eveything they say... same goes with others.
I don't know.. you don't know... we don't know.
I will concede this... while I do feel it is fair to assume Epley's stance in the "All Trinitarians Are Lost" thread (which would be to say that he also believes that "All Branhamites are lost" & "All everything else he said are lost" he did, in this thread name the doctrine.
Those statements, in and of themselves, are probably true.
So... I did pull an issue from another thread and apply it over here.
On the other thread... If Epley had made the name of the thread one like "The trinitarian doctrine will not save" then I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Trinitarians are people. the statement "All Trinitarians are lost" is a statement about people. Not all of those people that fall under the trinitarian blanket statement believe the same thing.
These things just really get to me and the scripture always comes to mind...
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
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Trinitarians are flesh and blood... they are not what we fight.
Branhamites are flesh and blood... they are not what we fight.
The issue is not that I believe these are saving doctrines.
The issue, to me, is that we fight principalities, powers, even doctrines... but we don't fight people.