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Originally Posted by Coonskinner
I find it almost gratifying that I look stupid to you.
Do you comprehend the fact that we are not communicating with "the rest of the planet" here? This is an Apostolic message board. We have our own vernacular among ourselves.
Terms like: "get the victory," "pray through," "shockamoo" and others wouldn't mean much to the rest of the planet either. But again, context is important. We are talking among ourselves, not trying to communicate with the rest of the planet.
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no, you don't look dumb to me, I kinda get what you mean by it... its the 7.48 billion people who aren't OPs who you need to think about...
and its a public message board, anyone can read this... and that's not my point anyways, because we say things like that in other settings that are just as public... To use "Charismatic" as an insult is not an honest representation of the word, nor is it anything but a way for you to try and belittle anyone who doesn't preach exactly what you do and yet, somehow, is spirit filled...
You use it as an insult out of fear. Out of fear that your people will never figure out that there are 480+ million people on this planet who speak in tongues who are not Oneness Pentecostals...
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And this is important because...?
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Its important because you can't reach people who think you are a bunch of crazies who can't even agree on stupid, un-important things...
The Bible shows Paul and James disagreeing on the entirety of the Old Testament Law and they still fellowshipped, and we can't even stay together over television... The rest of Christendom is aware of the Paul and James part, and we'd be a laughing stock if they ever knew enough about us to know we split over inane things like television advertising... Thankfully, they don't know who we are, so they don't know things like that...
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There are lots of Hindus in the earth, and Buddhists and Muslims. More than all the Christian denominations and beliefs put together. Your point?
The average Apostolic layman is not stupid, and knows that there are more AoG, Charismatics, trinitarian Pentecostals, etc. Catholics are the most numerous of all Christians. Therefore?
Larry, you have no point.
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No, actually there aren't... There are a few more Muslims on earth than Christians... but there are not more Buddhists or Hindus than Christians...
And the average Apostolic layman knows there are more poeple in other denominations, what they aren't always aware of is that a number of those denominations are just as spirit filled as we are... That is why you use charismatic as an insult, so you can train people into thinking that those people who are spirit filled aren't as saved as we are... thus keeping them under your control even when you right with others over silly things like television and everyone realizes how stupid that is...