Fireinfolding
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Again, you didn't show me how any of these practices are clearly shown to us in God's Word.
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Peace to you Jason, God bless you, hope all is well with both you and yours
One practice Paul mentions in 2 Thes 3:10 was when he said, For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat, that is one tradition, which was spoken to them (by word) when he said they were with them (and so now he writes it in his epistle being away he hears something concerning them) and so he brings this up both in person or epistle (or the "whether by" word or this epistle) because he is acknowledging writing only what he said "when we were yet with you".
Not only so by being an example themselves (in that tradition) of not eating any mans bread for nought, even as Paul was a tentmaker (and who also speaks in 2 Thes 3:6-9 of following after these traditions of both working and not being a busybody). To those that "are such" are to whom the command is for. So being disorderly and not walking after the same (or as one not working at all and being a busybody) is who he is speaking to who walks not after such traditions.
In respects to what was taught, same with 2 Thes 2:5 He speaks there of speaking the same thing he is writing there earlier as well saying, 2 Thes 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? Again, he acknowledges being with them (in word) and telling them "these things" (in this epistle) and then again acknowledges the same in 2 Thes 3:30 when he acknowledges what he commanded them in the epistle, and is pressing the same things (writing the same things which were a safegaurd for them anyway) and we have now in word or espistle both would speak the same (as Paul even says he told them the same things before) this is nothing new.
Unless this is about candle lightings and pot washings, robes and ceremonials, that would be more the tradition of men.
God bless you Jason, I agree with you
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