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Religion can take a hike
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No i dont think inappropriate content is proper for anyone.
I dont understand the trinity so i avoid debating it.
I believe the bible is the sole authority and a proper teacher will teach that.
I believe the bible has translation errors, although we can compare scripture with scripture and see the truth.
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Jesus is the way the truth and the life. But this would be the Jesus revealed in the Holy Scriptures and not a Jesus of our own imagining. Jesus and his followers gave us certain teachings within Scripture for us to have faith in and to follow.
Again, some of things I already mentioned are requirements according to the Word of God.
I will name them again (with a few more).
You should believe and defend (and be separate from other believers if necessary over the following truths):
1. The Trinity.
2. Jesus is God.
3. Sola Scriptura.
4. All men must first accept Jesus as their Savior and believe that He died and was risen on our behalf to gain entrance into God's kingdom and be initially saved.
5. God is love and God is good.
6. God does not directly create evil or cause people to be a certain way.
7. God does not tempt man to sin.
8. We are to obey God's commands within the New Testament in this life as a part of our faith (i.e. to love God and to love others).
9. Repentance. Believers cannot sin and still be saved. They have to be honestly sorry about their sin and forsake it. They cannot justify sin and evil and think they are in God's good graces.
10. Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
11. Faith without works is dead.
12. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.
There are more, but this should help give you an idea of certain truths that you should defend in God's Word that I believe are essential to the faith; And defending the faith will cause division amongst other professing believers.
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And have you not read the SOP for the areas that you are posting in?
Why should I feel I need to leave.
Go read your OP again. You are bashing us for our beliefs. Nothing less.
If you have questions great. If you want to debate or discuss within the topics great.
But if your going to teach 'something else' then it goes in another area.
Forgive me...
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Why should i defend anything? Will it change anyones mind? No, it wont, been there too many times, and its always the same, strife, factions and dissension.
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Here it is in a nutshell. Your faith is different than what is expressed here, and you know that. That is why you are frustrated, it comes across as bashing. Go read the SOP.
Forgive me...
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Im not bashing anything, im sharing my faith. You denied that you referred to the creed when you actually did refer to it. Now you are questioning my reading of the SOP?
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Yes, I am questioning your reading of the SOP. We'll let the mods and admins decide.
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I haven't broke any rules. You want to know why i dislike your Church and those of the Catholics? Right here, you bann people who disagree with you, thats the reason. You throw them out like garbage, and dont even care if they are struggling in life. You just dont care, You care about religion though!
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I care plenty. Even enough to tell you, you're wrong. I see you suffering. I see you in need. You deny it.
Forgive me...
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Did Jesus and Paul have that kind of attitude? Surely not. They defended certain truths because they thought they were essential to the faith. You can read about them in the New Testament.
In fact, Scriptures says,
"Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people." (Jude 1:3).
"And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed." (2 Thessalonians 3:14).
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Thus your religion has not helped you love others. In my time here at CF i have reported only one or two people, in all these years. Yet ive been reported more times than i can count, or care to remember. I can leap for Joy however, because the Lord is my helper and comforter. You only reinforce my resolve to walk in simplicity.
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The apostles didnt have thousands of competing denominations who would never change their doctrine.
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Let me ask you a few questions: Is there one sin or evil thing in this world that really upsets you?
Do you believe it is worth standing up for?
if so, then you are going to cause division because there is always somebody that is going to disagree with you. Standing up for the truth is the right thing to do (even if it causes a dividing of certain believers). Do you believe in Univeral Salvationism? That all are going to make it?
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