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What important doctrine or truth is not being taught in the churches today?
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I believe that Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation; I don't hold to it being inerrant in every matter (it is not a science or history textbook)......Oh my !!!! You had better embrace and believe every word that is written in it. The Bible is much more that for salvation, what about how to live the way that pleases Him ? What about finances? Marriage? Family? It most certainly can be trusted for a history test- do you not believe in all the events of the Bible? (the flood....parting of the Red Sea....creation?) Are you some kind of religion-made woman preacher?
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I am an orthodox Anglican. Anglicans have never held to the inerrancy of the Scriptures in every matter.
Sure, the Bible has lots to say about how to live righteously and wisely. But when I say it's not a science textbook, here's just one simple example; Leviticus 11:19 lists bats among unclean birds. But bats are not birds, they are mammals. It would be a mistake to read that verse and therefore insist that bats are birds.
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That is a pipe dream isn't it? No one who is religious came to religion without some source (book, bible, preacher, friend) telling them a story with emphasis on some doctrine or other.
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Sure, they may be some influences, but if one is truly seeking to just check the Scripture like a good Berean to see whether those things be so or not, they can surely do that like they did.
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Some (many) of the Bereans became Christians the rest remained Jews.
(Acts 17:10-15) [10] The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. [11] Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. [12] Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men. [13] But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds. [14] Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. [15] Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
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1. The Sabbath is not Sunday.
2. Yoked does not mean married.
2. Yoked does not mean married.
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- Sunday is the Lord's day.
- Yoked together means joined together in some solemn and meaningful way.
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I agree with #1
Regarding #2, I did an exhaustive word study on "yoke" in the Bible and it always refers to slavery/forced labor/servitude, for both animals and people. Marriage is never considered a yoke in the Bible.
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Not sure if I mentioned this already, but I feel that repentance is not correctly taught in the churches today, either. Most do not even know what it even means.
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The correlation between the religious of today and the religious of Jesus' day.
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Right, a teaching on Belief Alone-ism (that John the Baptist condemned, and Jesus condemned) would be a really good sermon to hear.
"Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father [i.e. Belief Alone-ism]: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." (Luke 3:8-9).
"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father [i.e. Belief Alone-ism]. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham." (John 8:39).
"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father [i.e. Belief Alone-ism]. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham." (John 8:39).
Side Note:
The brackets above in purple is my commentary to the text.
Oh, and what is interesting is that the number 389 (Luke 3:8-9) can be seen in both verse numbers. Just move the 3 to the middle and you have the number 839 (John 8:39). Both are saying the same thing. That's the Word of God! It's beautiful.
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Gifts, Christ returning be that caught up or not. Faith, the need to repent. To be holy as He is. The promises He gave us. The fear of God (not mans meaning of fear). On and on.
I do have to say there are over 27 million Churches in the world so.. I would be hard pressed to say what really is or not being taught. I am sure it is SOMEWHERE praise GOD glory to Jesus. Thanks for this. Well I forget these things
I do have to say there are over 27 million Churches in the world so.. I would be hard pressed to say what really is or not being taught. I am sure it is SOMEWHERE praise GOD glory to Jesus. Thanks for this. Well I forget these things
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On that note I think you may wish to look up Dr. Kevin Zadai. He add some fascinating details on this topic. He had a near death experience in which he met with Jesus for forty five minutes and his view of all that was going on was really turned around.
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That bat example is a bit unfair as animal classification is arbitrary. It's like saying the Jewish lunar calendar is wrong because our calendar is solar.
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Science is always prone to change, or self-correction, sometimes it takes centuries. With regard to Scripture as, you say, it is not a science textbook.
God for the most part left men and women the work of science, of figuring out stuff about the world and filling in some detail. Some of what they have found is true and helpful and useful and to be given thanks for, other bits of it are currently in a state of error, some of it is not much use to man nor beast, and all of it is incomplete.
Going back to that scripture - I think there is another exegesis of that scripture that is possible. Its more likely the writer is refering to flying things (even if some are only so through adaption)
That verse and the preceding verses are about living things that were to be regarded as unclean by the Israelites. But it deals in specifics, so all flying creatures speaking generally were not unclean, just certain ones. Bats would have been regarded as flying things in those days - which they were and are.
When we talk about error in scripture it means does the scripture lead to errors in doctrine or practice. In that sense the answer is No. Read with humility it doesn't lead into error about who God is, or the conditions under which he can be approached.
If the Bible writer had included bats, but God had said bats are clean, that would be an error. Because these verse are in the first instance dealing with specific creatures to be regarded as unclean and not about giving a detailed taxonomy of living things.
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