"Deeper Fellowship Statement of Purpose
This forum is not the place to discuss or debate church practices, specific church leaders, interpretations of Scripture or theological topics."
How does one have a deeper fellowship with God and not discuss "theological topics"?
If this post violates the purpose of the forum I will be happy to remove it. This is a serous question however since most of the posts here discuss interpretations of Scripture and theological topics.
That is a great question and the reply seem very week to me. For example the very first words I heard the Lord personally tell me were, "READ YOUR BIBLE'. I did like He personally told me and among others things, He regularly discusses the Bible and meanings in it with me.
Now I hear from Him about a dozen times a day, and the most common thing I hear from Him is "Karl, I love you.", but that does not mean that He doesn't discuss scripture and what we would call "theological topics" with me. And my "Deeper Fellowship" comes from having all those discussions with Him, including discussion on "theological topics".
The Lord said through Isaiah Is 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together. " - and isn't it interesting that the Lord followed that up by saying, ""Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow"-- So there is a great verse about having a "Deeper Relationship" with the Lord but the reasoning directly implies "theological topics" and discussion. Have we not read that iron sharpens iron?
Now by reading many of the responses, I can see that it is felt that this section "deeper fellowship" if meant by many to talk about love and many see a direct connection between loving other and having a deeper relationship with God. For example one person writes "We help encourage one another, by sharing how we have benefited from being Christians, so we grow more and share this to help one another." Well how can they write that and not realize that sharing a "theological topic' that the Lord went over with you is indeed "sharing how we have benefited from being Christian. Haven't they fail to see the hypocrisy in their own statement and reaction?
A deeper relationship for me involves the things the Lord teaches me. My "theology" is my understanding of Him, and that for me primarily comes from Him talking to me, but it can also come from what others say about their understanding of Him which is by definition, 'their theology'.
Since we all know in part, or am I getting into something forbidden by men, it does become valuable and specifically valuable for my deeper understand and thus deeper fellowship, that I am able to hear what others are picking up when they reason with the Lord. I can take others "Theology" to the Lord and get His reasoning on it.
Definition of theology
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: the study of religious faith, practice, and experience
How can we say that we are to sharing what God is dong with us and at the same time say you cann't discuss your "theology" when our theology is our "study of religious faith, practice, and experience".
Face it, the question in the OP was obviously an excellent question the points to a serious problem in this section of the forum!