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Originally Posted by webe123
Let me ask some on this board a question...what makes you so BITTER that you HATE the UPCI that much?
I know there are other organizations like the ALJC that believe in Jesus name baptisim, but the only organization that is trashed constantly on this forum is the UPCI....care to explain why?
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Let me explain this as best as I can.
Yes there may be some people who are bitter and hate the UPCI, but hopefully the Lord will work on them to get over those feelings.
However pointing out where an organization has gone to extremes can not be rightly called "hate".
When the priests, kings and Israel went wrong, God sent them prophets to point out their defects and bring them back to him.
Those prophets hollered and thundered against Israel, does it mean they hated Israel and wanted to see it destroyed?
No of course not.
Jeremiah loved God and loved his people, ye he fulminated against Israel for their wrongs. The enemies of Jeremiah were under the impression that he was against them and "Hated" them, but we know that was not true, for Jermiah wrote lamentations where he wept for Israel.
Of course no one likes it when their church or organization be criticized and that is normal.
However the Bible does say
"Faithful are the wounds of a friend"
Who really wants to be wounded, no one in their right mind.
But sometimes things have to be said that will wound.
I have often defended the UPCI in my posts because I consider them brethren, I have no ill will toward them and I wish them the best.
However I am not going to accept their man made rules as gospel or as "holiness" as they insist.
I would not be welcomed at a UPCI church for I believe in the Bible and if it is not in the Bible, I simply consider it a man-made rule, perhaps good intentioned but still a man-made rule.
The pharisees also fell into this mind set.
They created extra-rules to add to what already God had commanded, they wanted to build a hedge around the law. However eventually they elevated their man-made rules to the point that they consider them like if God himself had given those rules.
But as Jesus pointed out, their own rules or "traditions" eventually nullified the actual commandments of God.
Why the other oneness organizations are not criticized like the UPCI?
Well because those other organizations may have rules and standard of conduct, yet they do not make those salvational issues.
They teach their rules and standard of conduct simply as rules that their organizations have but do not preach that a person is going to hell for breaking their standard of conduct.
While in many UPCI churches a preacher will actually get on the pulpit and condem people to hell for breaking this or that rule.
What you may think "hate" may not really be hate at all.
If a person is going to fall into hole, and you warn that person, that the way that person is going is going; will land that person in the hole, is that hate?
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