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Originally Posted by mfblume
Two peas in a pod who will receive stricter judgment since what is meted out will return.
Paul said that there is one Spirit and one faith. But he said to keep unity of the Spirit til we all come to unity of faith. That means they were in unity of Spirit but not in unity of faith.
This view you propose says that we should rather keep unity of faith and keep unity of Spirit . Paul implied some were not in proper faith in the churches. Did he say they were lost. No. Obviously they were Acts 2:38 saved. But they did not have the faith properly down pat. He would not say they were to keep unity of the Spirit til they come to unity of the faith if they were lost in disunity of faith. And you cannot be in unity of Spirit if you=r faith is offkey because one cannot have one detail of teaching wrong. One could not be in unity of Spirit til they come to unity of faith. This proposal you make means that everyone is only in unity of Spirit if everyone is in unity of faith. And that voids Paul's whole point. |
You couldn't be more wrong.
1 Cor 1:10
10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
This is Gods will. Why do you resist?
Its true they were not all in the unity of the faith. But that was the purpose of the ministry to bring them into it. If they refused to heed the words of correction given by the Apostles they were counted "heretics".
Titus 3:10
10A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition
reject; 11Knowing that he that is such is
subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Are the heretics going into the kingdom?
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
No not according to the Apostle.
If one has the attitude no one can know the full truth they should not be teaching the word of God.
1 Tim. 1:3
3As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that
they teach no other doctrine,
But you have your Apostolic "light" doctrine. So anyone can believe and teach whatever they want and still be saved......as long as they have done
Acts 2:38!
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