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What is Your Baseline?
Whatever happened to the idea of scripture being our baseline (A line serving as a basis, as for measurement, calculation, or location.)?
I've been in discussions about jewelry with a group of men who claim to be conservative. They base that claim on the fact that they hold to the "old paths."
They got mad at me when I asked for scriptures that support the "no jewelry" standard. They said I was a legalist, and that doctrine is not based on scripture alone.
That just floored me.
If we can't discuss issues from the standpoint of scripture, what's the use? Everything else is just somebody's opinion, and you know what they say about those.
Is our new baseline the manual? Tradition? Preference?
What is your baseline?
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The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
Leonard Ravenhill
Last edited by EA; 03-11-2010 at 01:55 PM.
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