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Originally Posted by Amanah
I'm amazed by the dogged persistence in spite of the lack of encouragement or support.
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Welcome to blind religion. Where they believe what they believe because they say so. If you critique their belief they will get upset and throw you into timeout. Yet, they appear to look exactly like us, as to be mistaken to be us. That's when people see their deception and discard them. But, they also refuse to hear us. Because the religious look like us, and almost sound like us.
Paul didn't rebuke the woman who had the spirit of Python because she wasn't speaking the truth. She was rebuked because she was following them. The disciples rebuked a man who was casting demons out in Jesus name, because the man was NOT a follower. Yet, Jesus said leave him alone, for no one can do a miracle in Jesus' name and then turn around and speak evil of Jesus Christ. Jesus wasn't condoning the man's theology. Just that the man wouldn't be actively suppressing what Jesus was doing. The tares will always grow up with the wheat, and when you know the truth then you can see exactly what a tare looks like. A sister in the church was helping a pastor's wife, and mentioned a situation where an individual hadn't been baptized in Jesus' name, and infilled with the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues. The pastor's wife flipped out! Started to go on an ecclesiastical tirade on how there won't only be One God Apostolic Pentecostals in heaven. This is an individual who has been in the UPCI her entire life (don't try to guess who she is. Sadly, you'd probably come up with quite a few names.) Here is a sister who married to a pastor, and defending ecumenicalism in her old age. This didn't happen over night. This is a slow decay, and the sad situation is this Pentecostal sister never understood the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Apostles. She throws the baby out with the bath water and now see Jesus as inclusive, instead of exclusive. Just like Don, and all the other Donites out among us. They may not call it by name, but they all preach a doctrine of Inclusion. Preachers who barely have a grasp of eschatology, theology and dimly understand soteriology. To the point that their idea of the Gospel is just water baptism in Jesus name. Whether or not the baptized even understands why he or she is being baptized. Bypassing the initial sign of speaking in tongues, and opting out for something else as the initial sign of indwelling. Don, is religious. Do we all remember Sean? They keep coming at us like an Ecclesiastical Freddy Kruger or an Ecclesiastical Jason Voorhees. No amount of scriptural reasoning will abate them, or persuade them to your logical outcomes. They we told a doctrine from a manual, and through the years they modified the rest.