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Re: You Can Fake It All
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Originally Posted by Timmy
"Nor are those statements foolproof . . . " Agreed. So I guess what we don't agree on is what those statements mean. I think "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" means "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." Not sure anymore what you think it means.
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You are stretching the statement beyond itself and that's where we are disagreeing. You want to use that statement as a litmus test for the accuracy of scripture. If you can prove that the statement is false, then that's one more step toward proving that scripture as a whole is false, or at least, unreliable. Right?
I believe that Jesus meant, "By this shall all men know that my disciples are mine: if they love one another." He did NOT say, "By this shall all men know that any random person is my follower: if he loves others." He was speaking to people who were already His followers, therefore the statement wasn't extended to everyone; it was to a specific group.
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