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Re: What makes us who we are?
There is also going around the mistaken idea that when the members of a church begin to get loose on the 'cannot's' then they frequently become loose on everything, even to becoming backsliders. It is the idea that as long as one holds to the 'cannot's', spiritually, everything will be OK.
No one seems to notice that a person changes their thinking patterns before they change their patterns of behavior, not afterwards. But I guess that is why all of those freedom and liberty scriptures in the Bible are almost never preached on. You cannot easily preach on these 'can do' things and the 'cannot's' at the same time. For example, how does one understand and apply Titus 1:15 to one's life and also for the general assembly? Or, the application of Colossians 2:20-23 to the church body?
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It makes no difference whether you study in the holy language, or in Arabic, or Aramaic [or in Greek or even in English]; it matters only whether it is done with understanding. - Moshe Maimonides.
Last edited by A.W. Bowman; 05-04-2010 at 03:20 PM.
Reason: As Usual, had to clean up some spelling and a little English!
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