Originally posted by humblejoe
Reformationist,
Could you give me a specific example of a hypothetical situation where me wearing a mythological symbol could lead a brother into sin, and could you give a specific example of what that sin would be? Thanks
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Hi,
can 'i' jump in here? Specific examples might be like cancer, for starters?
Little by little. Whatever the issue is! Food, drink, dress, or whatever perhaps? Lets use religon, seen in possible decay?
Are we better say, in the U.S.A. in morals than when great grand maws & paws were around? Just some thoughts
Can we confortably pick up hitchhiker today?
Why not? The reason, might it be loose standards, and lax liberal views?
And do we need to lock our doors at night or can we be non/presumptous by leaving them like mom & dad could, unlocked?? What kind of standards do we see liberalized in churchs today? (or just flat out sacked?)
How about Christian morals? Our apparel, what we call dresses, & swim suits today are quite the thing, huh? And some of these x rated movies that cabel ('s'atan?) brings into most of [our living rooms] I suppect?
(good spiritual food, huh?) Even the commercials today would shock most grand daddies of yesterday? Where does it stop with standards all or mostly tossed, & only believe being the battle cry? We have not seen anything yet it seems! (or so said great, great, pops) You know, Pappa Jude 7? or the Son of God's relick from Matt. 24:37-39?
Matt. 25:5.
And whats behind many of the pulpits today? And, are there out of the closet [open] sinners in membership? Unless pops was all wet with his perverted sin stuff, O'maybe that was great pops who was not even a Christian in proffession, who said that we will see Gen. 19 repeated again?? Wow! would he be called off his cottin picken rocker if he had told us then, a 'hypothetical situation' that the Roman Catholic denomination would be rocked with these daily news reports?
And how did this start might be of interest? Little by little like a cancer Pops would have told us! It was reported on world news that USA priests are 1 in 4 times more infected with the aids virus than the average USA male citizen. And you think that Catholics have an issue all alone with this? don't hold your breath as Pops always said, 'whatsoever a man sows that he will also reap'! But what does food have to do with it huh?
The above makes me think of the court case between the Tradmarked Seventh-day Advents denomination & the 'Kinship' Seventh-day Adventist denomination. Kinship SDA are open out of the closet honesexuals who meet in their own organized denomination. The law suit was brought about because these folk were using the tradmarked name Seventh-day Adventist by their Mother denomination.
Most or many of these being sued were holding a dual SDA membership. But, mind you, they were not being dis/fellowshiped or sued for being in open public sin, but were being sued because they were organized into a denomination using this trademarked name. You know, the dollars were going elsewhere? Now who would pops say were a [symbol] of the two, for the times??? He would tell me to read Rev. 18:4 and say LOOK, it is an ETERNAL LIFE AND AN ETERNAL DEATH DECISION!!!
So bottom line in closing! Pops would tell us, lower the standards & pay the price! But that old nut, he has been dead for years huh?
says some? Besides he voted --------, aw, that didn't matter either! Yet, read 2 Peter 3:9-14 for that old timers belief! AND THE SURE WORD OF GOD!!
Then 'i' (today) wonder what the teaching of 'once saved always saved' has accomplished? On & on we go, and where it stops we are told!
Pastor N.B.