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Re: Bombshell- Considering going back to the UPC
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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?
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Bitter? I'm amazed it took nearly 30 pages for someone to say it. I'm not bitter, if I were bitter I wouldn't even consider going to visit. To say nothing of the fact that one of the biggest factors of consideration is that I miss the fellowship, because I love the people. Does that sound bitter to you? Don't confuse "I studied the Bible to see whether these things were so, and found them NOT to be so, therefore I decided to leave the fellowship" with "the UPC ruined my life, and over my dead body would I go into a UPC church." The latter attitude could be considered "bitter". Thats not my attitude, in fact I've got a more positive view about the UPC/OP churches than most who have left. I fully believe that many of the people in those churches are saved, and some of the finest Christian people in American Christianity....but I think they don't realize they are justified by faith, and spend years wondering if they are really saved or not, serving God in fear, when really they ought to be rejoicing in the grace of God and enjoying the liberty that is in Christ.
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