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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
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I mean, do statements and phrases like 'my church... when I had my church... when I get my next church...' come naturally to you?
I don't recall the apostles ever speaking that way, at all.
Here, let's let the rubber meet the road - the religion of the apostles is a belief set, a way of thinking, a world-view. It is also a way of life. It is also divinely Inspired, and is the only Divinely Inspired 'religion' there is. It is truly God's Way.
That religion they had, that ideology, that belief set, that way of living, consisted in large measure of a thought process, a way of looking at things. That religion they had caused them to say certain things, like in response to 'what shall we do' they said 'repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins'.
Unlike Baptists and evangelicals who would NEVER EVER tell someone THAT. No Baptist or evangelical would ever meet a professing 'believer' and ask them 'Ah, great! Praise the Lord! Now... have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?'
Their religion would never cause them to think in such terms, their religion causes them to say 'Ask Jesus into your heart', or 'since you believed you already have the Holy Spirit!'
So then those Baptists and evangelicals have
a different religion than the apostles. It is evidenced by the fact their religion causes them to say things the apostles never would have, because their religion causes them to think in terms the apostles would have not thought in. Two different religions, producing two different world-views or ideologies or thought-processes... manifested by two different ways of speaking.
So, when you say 'my church' and other similar things, as I asked, do such statements come naturally to you? Do they not reflect your thinking, your thought processes, your world-view? Do they not reflect your religion?
Do they reflect the religion of the apostles?
If we believe what the apostles believed, if we teach what they taught, if we live what they lived, if we had their religion, then we would speak the same things they did.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Just something to consider.