This forum needs a name change...

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Ferd

my friend, i did make a typo... it seems... so lets be clear.

debate is great. diversity does make a forum. you cannot have one without it.

but what it "means to be Apostolic" should NOT be up for debate.

NOT because I have a definition that I want used....I had no input on the forum rules that are clearly stated...

BUT because Apostolic needs to mean what it was intended to mean. the rules are clear enough and broad enough to include both you and I. And we ought to all be comfortable with that.


You and I dont agree on how one becomes saved, but by the defintion of the rules, I am perfectly fine with the idea that we are both Apostolic.

the forum has moved beyond this. that is the issue. it wont go back... at least I dont think it can.

Thanks Ferd. But we had a big "walk out" of "conservatives" NOT over the issues under discussion here, but over a disagreement between two pastors involving the discipline of an erring but repentant saint.

This is the kind of thing that shouldn't even be part of public discussion, but here it was - brought up by an "ultra-con" who complained that the "saint" "hadn't even bothered to backslide..." Whatever...

As far as what "Apostolic was intended to mean..." that's an historical development and will probably be something that continues to develop. In the beginning, it was a Trinitarian saying that "There's something more for you, the believer... and it is 'evidenced by speaking in other tongues.'"

Today, that wouldn't even pass muster with AFF due to our decidedly Oneness stance.