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3rd April 2003 at 05:09 PM SnuP said this in Post #99
What you fail to realize is that everything that comes into our church as doctrine is carefully scrutinized and discerned. If there is no annointing or light than it is throne out. This is heardly the passing of tradition, but accually the looking for the fingerprint of God. And still we seek God before the issues are presented in the church. We are not excepting traditions, rather we are looking for God. When a non-denominational minister reads a book, he will only keep the things that have annointing on them, then he will search then out scripturally, and then pray over them. At this point the doctrine usually lookes different from the original, much of the minister has been added and it has become a personal revelation to the minister. This is heardly the passing of traditions, any more than traditions were passed to Paul when he went to see the apostles.
But the problem with this is that we are human. This is not an excuse but just a statement of fact. Buit what this means is that we are not perfect and we do accept things that are not of God as if they are of God. All our theoogy is flawed in some way except for God's. So one can't help but have some tradition in their church whether it is for the good or the bad. Good tradition is that like Paul gave to Timothy or that most if not all protestant (and Catholic) churches were given by Augustine. We are suppossed to learn from each other from the past and present. God gave us eachother as a body for this to occur. However the bad kind can't also be done away with entirely. Some doctrines that have been taught have not been of God. We want to limit these as much as possible but no man has perfect theology. The only man ever to have it was Jesus and he has been the only one since Himself. So I understand your concern about tradition but to say that your church has no tradition is not looking at your church realistically.
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