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Originally Posted by shamgar1
Astonishing Commentary from Friday
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My sympathies to the Papal wannabes who are stuck in traditional paradigm thinking and can't see the forest for the trees.
Rome forced a one way of thinking upon all churches, or else. The codified it, but it in creeds and said unless you think this way, you can not be in the church. You MUST think this way, believe this way and be this way to be part of our group. It is law. It is codified therefore if our forefathers believed it, it must be true and if so then it must be true for us. To think outside of that box is to be a heretic. The RCC was and is unchangeable. Rather as a solution people left her. But they fell to the same mistakes in thinking in codifying law and even in adhering to previous codified laws making belief in things like the Trinity mandatory.
When we were part of the AOG it was held by all that there would be no codification of any view other than what the bible specifically says. Because this allowed others to introduce Jesus name baptism and Oneness of the godhead, the Trinitarians in the AOG, who were the majority, felt THEIR "heritage" was being threatened and never for a moment would they dare entertain the idea that perhaps their heritage was wrong in some areas.
And what did the AOG do to us forward thinkers who dared to go against the traditional thinking and heritage of us Pentecostals? They marginalized us and forced us to leave. Their new creed insisted God is a Trinity for all of us. It attempted to think for us, just like Rome did.
This new resolution only allows those that want to, to be able to use TV to advertise. It does not force anyone to approve of TV usage for themselves or their congregations.
Our heritage being the UPC sounds messed up to me. It always did. Putting that much emotional attachment into an organization of men seems counter to biblical Christianity. Should not our heritage be the word of God?
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