Biblicalism

[JESUS<3sYOU]

It isn't Biblical!

How do you think that you will understand a book that was given by God to his faithful on your own? If you think your pastor has the right understanding, then why do you think that his understanding is right and not the one of another pastor not far from there? How do you expect the Scripture to represent truth if you think that's how Scripture should be approached? Do you not see a great many contradictory teachings and division after division in teaching and practices of all those who think that's the right attitude? Why do you think that you are so special that your own view should be the right one, nevermind that it contradicts the experience and the additional details offered by people who had the B.I.B.L.I.C.A.L. apostles as their servants to the benefit of the faith? Why do you reject the experience of Christ as lived before you, especially the experience of those to whom you owe even the existence and preservation of Scripture, in short the experience of people who kept and passed on what people mentioned in Scripture gave to them? Why do you think that your own interpretation is right or in any case better than theirs?

 

[wayseer]

Why do you think that your own interpretation is right or in any case better than theirs?

I don't.

 

[ifightdwagons]

I don't.

Sir... wouldn't your heart be turbulent if that was the case..
no disrespect at all sir

 

[ebia]

I don't.

What he said.

Or more precisely:
Nobody thinks what they think is wrong - obviously. But I recognise that what I think is provisional, that in any given instance I might be wrong, and that at least some of what I think will turn out to be wrong - I just don't know which bits.

 

[wayseer]

What he said.

Or more precisely:
Nobody thinks what they think is wrong - obviously. But I recognise that what I think is provisional, that in any given instance I might be wrong, and that at least some of what I think will turn out to be wrong - I just don't know which bits.

What he said.

 

[papaJP]

I accept what God has given me in understanding today. This will change and does as I grow closer to Him and being like the savior Jesus I receive additional knowledge from God the Holy Spirit. I do not ask anyone to believe as I do and I do not judge them for not believing as I do. I tell them that our strength is in the knowledge each of us have been given. I also tell them to read, study, pray and listen for the truth that God will give them. It will always be somewhat different than any other as we are all different by God's design. As to what others especially pastors and other ministers I will not allow them to get between me and God. By the way I am a pastor and bible scholar with appropiate education. I can tell you that when I discuss the Bible or any subject about God with another no matter who we have a discussion and most of the time will not completely agree. That is not bad.
However, I follow God not any man or group of men.

 

[JESUS<3sYOU]

N.b. there are many others; the lists below are not exhaustive.

BIBLICAL GROUPS DENYING THAT JESUS CHRIST IS GOD
American Unitarian Conference
Arianism
Church of Christ, Scientist a.k.a. Christian Science
Iglesia ni Cristo
Jehovah's Witnesses (also denying that the Holy Spirit is a person)
Monarchianism
New Church a.k.a. Swedenborgianism (teaching that Jesus was not but "became" God after a struggle)
Polish Brethren
Socinianism
The Way International (also denying the Holy Spirit; The Way teaches that the term refers to God the Father)
Unification Church a.k.a. Moon's movement
Unitarian Christians

BIBLICAL GROUPS TEACHING THAT JESUS CHRIST REINCARNATED E.G. AS ANOTHER HISTORICAL FIGURE
Rastafarianism

BIBLICAL GROUPS DENYING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD
Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith)
Church of God (Seventh Day)
Church of the Blessed Hope a.k.a. the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith, but not part of "General Conference"

BIBLICAL GROUPS DENYING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD AND DENYING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON
Christadelphians
Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church (not to be confused with the Seventh-day Adventist Church)
Living Church of God
United Church of God

OTHER NON-TRINITARIAN BIBLICAL GROUPS WITH OBSCURE OR NON-EXISTENT DOCTRINES, MANY OF WHICH DENY THAT ONE OR MORE OF THE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY ARE PERSONS, OR THAT ONE OR MORE OF THE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY ARE GOD
Bible Students
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a.k.a. Mormonism
Doukhobors
Friends of Man
Members of the Church of God International
Molokan
Muggletonianism
Oneness Pentecostals
Quakers
Shakers
True Jesus Church
Two by Twos a.k.a. The Truth
Unitarian Universalism

 

[sea oat]

N.b. there are many others; the lists below are not exhaustive.

BIBLICAL GROUPS DENYING THAT JESUS CHRIST IS GOD
American Unitarian Conference
Arianism
Church of Christ, Scientist a.k.a. Christian Science
Iglesia ni Cristo
Jehovah's Witnesses (also denying that the Holy Spirit is a person)
Monarchianism
New Church a.k.a. Swedenborgianism (teaching that Jesus was not but "became" God after a struggle)
Polish Brethren
Socinianism
The Way International (also denying the Holy Spirit; The Way teaches that the term refers to God the Father)
Unification Church a.k.a. Moon's movement
Unitarian Christians

BIBLICAL GROUPS TEACHING THAT JESUS CHRIST REINCARNATED E.G. AS ANOTHER HISTORICAL FIGURE
Rastafarianism

BIBLICAL GROUPS DENYING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD
Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith)
Church of God (Seventh Day)
Church of the Blessed Hope a.k.a. the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith, but not part of "General Conference"

BIBLICAL GROUPS DENYING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD AND DENYING THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON
Christadelphians
Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church (not to be confused with the Seventh-day Adventist Church)
Living Church of God
United Church of God

OTHER NON-TRINITARIAN BIBLICAL GROUPS WITH OBSCURE OR NON-EXISTENT DOCTRINES, MANY OF WHICH DENY THAT ONE OR MORE OF THE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY ARE PERSONS, OR THAT ONE OR MORE OF THE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY ARE GOD
Bible Students
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a.k.a. Mormonism
Doukhobors
Friends of Man
Members of the Church of God International
Molokan
Muggletonianism
Oneness Pentecostals
Quakers
Shakers
True Jesus Church
Two by Twos a.k.a. The Truth
Unitarian Universalism

Quoted for truth. Just goes to show how absurdly far people depart from Christianity with "sola scriptura."

 

[KeenanParkerII]

Match point. ^

In reality, all non-Apostolic biblical groups hold that the oldest and largest manifestations of the Gospel (ie. Christianity) are wrong, due to their own personal interpretation of Holy Scripture. Nevertheless, Christ has guided his Church for 2000 years, just as he promised he would (in Scripture no less) and shall continue to do.

 

[Hairy Tic]

How do you think that you will understand a book that was given by God to his faithful on your own?

## Well, given to the whole Church. It is the Church's book first, and only then is it the believer's.

If you think your pastor has the right understanding, then why do you think that his understanding is right and not the one of another pastor not far from there? How do you expect the Scripture to represent truth if you think that's how Scripture should be approached? Do you not see a great many contradictory teachings and division after division in teaching and practices of all those who think that's the right attitude? Why do you think that you are so special that your own view should be the right one, nevermind that it contradicts the experience and the additional details offered by people who had the B.I.B.L.I.C.A.L. apostles as their servants to the benefit of the faith? Why do you reject the experience of Christ as lived before you, especially the experience of those to whom you owe even the existence and preservation of Scripture, in short the experience of people who kept and passed on what people mentioned in Scripture gave to them?

## Catholics may not be Orthodox, or even orthodox , but we don't reject it - Sacred Tradition is immensely important. Not everyone who is not an Orthodox Christian is a Protestant.

Why do you think that your own interpretation is right or in any case better than theirs?

 

[Hairy Tic]

Quoted for truth. Just goes to show how absurdly far people depart from Christianity with "sola scriptura."

## A great many of those groups are not Protestant, and not all Protestants hold to "By Scripture Alone. To call Mormons Protestant would be grossly unfair to all concerned, as well as inaccurate & ill-informed.