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Originally Posted by Narrow Is The Way
I am referring to minor details, not major issues like television, cut hair, make-up, jewelry, painted fingernails, died hair, etc.
I have many friends that know that I believe they are going to hell. Do you believe that everybody that calls themselves apostolic is going to heaven? Are there no lines anymore?
Yes we do fellowship with those that we might have minor differences with. In fact I know of many who we fellowship with that might even hold to a stronger standard than we do. I love it, it challenges me to examine myself. We have an unfettered pulpit. Why doesn't anybody know anything about Biblical principles? Does the Bible say to not smoke a cigarette? Smoke dope? Drink a beer? No it doesn't. Buy we still preach that is is wrong because the principle of the issue is Biblical. Too many lazy people in the world today that wants everything in black & white. They don't feel the need to interpret scripture. If it is not black & white they just think it isn't a sin. WRONG.
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So then who do you fellowship. Are you part of the group that started their own Camp Meeting? I am assuming you are from CA, since you seem to have a relationship of some kind with some of the other posters that have indicated that they are.
If so, is your contention that the people in the WDUPC believe and teach that the things above are OK? I am seriously asking you this, and I am not trying to be a smart alec, I honestly am asking you this?
If this is so, I think that someone somewhere has sold you a pack of lies. Do perhaps some people teach it looser than others, sure! But I think some people make judgments on stuff like this because of things they are told by someone else who has an agenda.
I don't fault anyone for following their convictions or even forming their own fellowship. But I do have a problem with those people thinking they have right to proclaim everyone else who doesn't do it the way that they do it are "going to hell".
As to your question, no I don't think that everyone that calls them self Apostolic is going to heaven, just like I don't think that everyone that is UPC, AMF, WWPF, AA, or any other acronyms you want to throw together is going to heaven. I don't think everybody in
my church is going to heaven, but I also don't think that is my job to start picking out the ones from any of these groups that I think are the ones who aren't going to make it. Why on earth would I want that responsibility, and what kind of witness of the love of Christ would I be showing if I started doing that?
The bottom line is, no matter what side of the fence that you fall down on, I DO believe that the ones that make it to heaven will be the ones who have had Christian charity and love for their fellow man, along with whatever standards and requirements that they have or have not followed.