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Originally Posted by missourimary
Edification does mean to build up, Prax. Edifying should be encouraging people to win the lost or encouraging them to keep the faith. Edification is NOT telling people they'll be raped or burn forever if they don't change. That's a warning, and it may be a rebuke. But it is definitely NOT building up. And if the warning is for no certain thing and people just feel like they must be "bad" but don't know why, it's condemnation, not rebuke. Edification isn't "Joel Olsteen sound bytes" but it also isn't yelling at people and telling them God's rejecting them if they aren't bawling their eyes out.
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Originally Posted by missourimary
Please re-read my statement. I didn't say that was part of T&I. I said it didn't fall under the meaning of EDIFICATION.
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Edification or building up may involved correcting someone or warning them but I never characterized warning or correcting as telling people they'd be raped etc etc.
Certainly if a saint is going astray they need correction and that correction is beneficial not destructive, so I would certainly see that as edification.
I see corrections and warnings in the bible too. Jesus warned and corrected in the letters to churches in Rev. Paul warned and corrected
2Co 13:2 I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them--
Gal 5:21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Col 1:28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
So I would say that sometimes edification or building the body might require correcting or warning some, instructions of righteousness, if that is what the body or individuals need at the time
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