Originally Posted by Polaris
(Post 192316)
I think this is pathetic. You have some people on here champing at the bit to discredit and trounce on everything we as Apostolics stand for. Some defend trinitarians as "men of God", brazenly post pictures of themselves posing with or showing themselves to be "non-standards Apostolics" (practically defying us to say anything about it), and defending trinitarian charismatics as thought they were churches of God. Some actively promote the notion that people DO NOT have to be baptized in Jesus' name or receive the Holy Ghost for salvation, right here on an Apostolic forum. Many believe in NO standards of holiness WHATsoever, and practically throw it up in your face and dare you to challenge it...and you're offended by BILL PRICE?
When people defend the tranditional Apostolic position on any of these or other things, they are routinely ridiculed, made fun of, told their posts are "sad", and even have people implying that they need God's forgiveness. You know exactly what I'm talking about. For an Apostolic Pentecostal forum, I'm amazed at the way everything taught in traditional Apostolic churches get trashed on here, but BILL PRICE'S OPINIONS OFFEND you?
WHO WAS OFFENDED by people making FUN of him, calling him "Billy Boy" and practically taking wagers on how long he'd be gone? Do you have any idea how offensive and hurtful that was? Who was offended that someone who, praise God, MADE IT BACK to JESUS after Satan had nearly DESTROYED him was being held up for public belittlement? Would you have felt better and more justified if he had remained lost in sin? So he's had some challenges in his beliefs---he made it back to the right path, didn't he? Disappointed? I suppose some of you have never had a faith crisis, huh?
Did it ever occur to any of the better-idea-"progressive" Apostolics on here to be concerned for Bro. Price? Your hard-heartedness amazes me. Scratch that...it doesn't amaze me...it simply FLOORS me...I'm flabberghasted to see such crass disregard for a brother in the house of God.
For the record, everybody on here is not like the people I described above, so I'm not talking about everybody on this list. But some are, and they flaunt it at every turn. But even when people like that take potshots and trash-talk a previously wounded saint for whom Christ died, one who made it home, by the way, we're all supposed to tolerate it and take it with equanimity. Sad. Well, for the record, I was offended.
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