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Originally Posted by votivesoul
All of this has been attempted, going back to Acts 15, then forward in time to 325 AD. In general, it doesn't work. It wouldn't matter what any council decides, there will always be those who reject the decisions of said council and go their own way.
Every year, various Oneness Apostolic orgs have a general conference, and positions papers are issued, reviewed, and adopted. This doesn't really affect much, apart from the licensed ministers. The average apostolic on the street just goes about his or her day as he or she always did.
I fear that any attempt to make such ideas as you suggest the law of apostolic land will eventually result in witch hunts and inquisitions, just as they did in the false church. The "affirmation statement", for example, did just that. As Robert Sabin explained in his letter against the idea, no one has the right to govern the believer's mind. To create councils and hand down official rulings causes division and uncertainty. |
I said NOT A THING about establishing a Council replete with Canons, making law throughout Apostolica.
I am simply asking about a truly correct method of learning God's revelation to us.
It's like we forget that Jesus actually taught some things, as did his apostles. So now we all just do our own thing, however we want, and any who don't agree are either wrong (for no articulable reason) or else it's all relative, nobody knows who or what is right, and so ultimately WHO CARES?
This nothing but moral relativism poisoning the church. "Everybody has different beliefs and we cannot change that so why try?"
So I guess one should just go with whatever doctrine doesn't give ya gas. I mean, might as well, what's the difference? That criteria is no less irrational than having NO criteria, right?
Nobody even wants to try to figure it out. It's hopeless, so quit trying. Just follow the Spirit, be led by inner impulses and who cares about an objective method of testing them.
"Just stick to the Bible." Which amounts to an empty platitude if one cannot explain what that encompasses or entails.
I am beginning to think Oneness Pentecostalism, as a movement, is dead in the water, for failing to grow.
But 'let the Church roll on!' I am being forced to a conclusion, that God is moving on and the OP movement in general is not.
Maybe I'm just having a bad day. Might be the cell towers today. I dunno??? lol
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