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Hence this is why the church is so divided. We are judging people in ignorance without formal knowlege.
True. But as my moniker says, "Sometimes I pretend to act normal.".
I know that one!
I know about it because they are not shy speaking of what they are taught and believe. I concede that attending a single service with them would not show any indication of that belief. But when one inquires out of , thinking of joining or simple curiosity they are straightforward about it. It is not their little hidden secret.I mean the add it to their name . It's their proclamation.
Which witch? The Oneness one or the Roman?I'll go gather the wood.
A few? I have family members who are of the sect and know quite a few as we have six different congregations in my little town going by the oneness or apostolic name.Ok, youve talked to a few oneness pentecostals and went to a few churches. You still haven't talked to the majority. You don't know enough to condenm everyone in the denonmination.
They added that name to them almost 100 years ago. Most people alive today wasn't even born then. In fact most were born into the denonmination and didn't join. Some have different beliefs they just don't know how leave the denonmination.
Culpable ignorance is the lack of knowledge or understanding that results from the omission of the most basic care to acquire such knowledge or understanding.
A few? I have family members who are of the sect and know quite a few as we have six different congregations in my little town going by the oneness or apostolic name.
Now do i for a moment believe every single member agrees with said dogma? No. But when one is "in communion with" it denotes accepting it without speaking against it. So one may as well hold the dogma as that is what they are supporting. Yes I purposely said dogma and not doctrine. The trinity is a dogmatic point.
Now if you look through this thread, you will note I'm not willing to call them damned. But I do curse the teaching.
Ignorance.
A few? I have family members who are of the sect and know quite a few as we have six different congregations in my little town going by the oneness or apostolic name.
Now do i for a moment believe every single member agrees with said dogma? No. But when one is "in communion with" it denotes accepting it without speaking against it. So one may as well hold the dogma as that is what they are supporting. Yes I purposely said dogma and not doctrine. The trinity is a dogmatic point.
Now if you look through this thread, you will note I'm not willing to call them damned. But I do curse the teaching.
"I have family members " a few people compared to hundreds of thousands..
"six different congregations" few churches compared to thousands.
My point is these are not the majority.
But I agree with you that we must judge the doctrin and not the entire community.
We don't know what the entire community believe.
"The trinity is a dogmatic point" and this we agree on.
I agreeIn this shows the difference between the evangelical movement and the traditional. In the traditional Church we believe holding a dogma contrary to our communions dogma is ex-communication (either by self or imposed). The evangelicals hold communion in a different regard and usually have no set dogmas (save a couple) that could ever cause one to be out of said communion.
I would venture to say that very few evangelicals even know the position of their church on most matters as it's rarely written or brought up but replace by the Bible. Now there is nothing wrong with that except there are far too many different takes on the bible even within the same congregation.
Let me give an example from my life experience.
I was a baptist pastor and noticed we were not all on the same page. I saw that in our various aged Sunday School classes that some would be on one book of the Bible while another class was on a different. So i made a simple suggestion that was well received. Let us all teach on the same text on the same day. I always floated between the classes Just to listen to them. i notice the very first week that the teen's teacher was doing a fine job so i moved on. The adult's teacher was teaching a completely different doctrine.
Now when thse teen agers went home and discussed what they'd learned with their parents, how does that work out? So I went to what we called the Bi-laws. It didn't even come close to addressing it. The church had no defined doctrine.
This is more common than some might be aware of. Don't take this wrong as I have no issues with multiple doctrines being examined. But a teaching needs to be steadfast.
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