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You know better, and my disappointment deepens. Obviously I believe some knowledge is required.
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But, actually what is the bare minimum one really needs to know? Again, we are back to Aquila's ignorant bog harvesting serfs and dimwitted monks of the dark ages. People who had no real working knowledge of the Bible. Because supposedly the Roman Catholics didn't want anyone outside of Latin speakers to know what it contained. Leaving the stump ignorant dark age culture to rely solely on a few basic Bible stories to get by on. Doctrine would be what ever was churned out of the Roman Catholic feudal church. Today was a discussion brought up in service where Christians believe all sorts of myths concerning Jesus, and the Gospel. Soteriology is reduced to a confess with your mouth and sin every day because you are just a sinner. Jesus' atonement makes it all good, and you can never stop sinning because you have a veracious sinilled nature. Come as you are and stay as you are. So, it is not how much you are required to know, (because that seems like too much weight on the bar) so, how little can you know? Really, that seems to be the elephant in the room.
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Sharing the gospel is the impartation of knowledge. But to be made righteous before a holy God, one does not have to profess a belief in or possess an understanding of the workings of the Oneness doctrine.
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Oneness doctrine? My lands, I thought we are talking about what saith the Bible. I don't give a hoot, what Brothers Bernard and Segraves believe. I am supposed to make my calling an election sure. The devils believe in Oneness and they are shaking like puppies passing peach pits. So, I sure don't want demons having more perfect knowledge of truth than my family and I? Looking well to my going? Walking circumspectly. The word an illuminating force to my path? Wow, bro, there is sure a lot of warning and instruction going on in that book. Seems to me, that one needs to sharpen their pencil and start doing some arithmetic on how they are going to navigate that narrow way and enter through that cracked open door.
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The Apostles in Acts preached "Jesus of Nazareth" being "exalted". It does take the illuminating influences of the indwelling Holy Ghost to begin grasping the dual nature of Christ. Again, why these exaggerated claims against me, brother? Zero knowledge?
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Bro, I love you, please don't me this an us against you. Because it isn't about you or me. It is about what that book is actually saying and conveying. Jesus as well as Paul warns us to get it together. We are entering a new dark ages in our own world. Where we are heading towards a post Christain era. Where people believe in a flat earth, that life on this planet was created by the Anunnaki from the planet X. Where technology through smart phones is making television prohibition in old Pentecost look like baby diapers. Imagine a member of your church relaying to you the story of Moses, and how Moses was betrayed by Edward G Robinson and Vincent Price? How that there favorite Bible story is the little drummer boy? I'm not making this up, these were events which really happened.
Hosea 4:6 sattes "my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge," also look at
Job 36:12,
Proverbs 5:23, and
Proverbs 10:21. The job and call of the ministry is to teach, preach, and baptize, that is the great commission. We must all do our part. Our job isn't to fill buildings with warm bodies and open wallets. Our job is what the Ethiopian eunuch was looking for a man who would instruct him on how to be saved. Trinitarians need a Peter to come down from Joppa to the house of Cornelius. To give the rest of the story.
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