Hello!
I am looking for a very specific community.
I would like to agree on the following points of belief:
The Torah, Gospels and Epistles are objectively true and eternally valid. This means: All of the apostles' precepts were inspired by the Holy Spirit and apply just as much today as they did back then. If it was a shame then for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered, it is also a shame today for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered. And the believing men teach the believing women, not the other way around. Women are different than men and have different tasks than men. There are always exceptional situations in everything. For example, it may be right for a believing woman to preach to a group of unbelievers because there is no one else to tell them about Jesus.
As a believer you have security of salvation. But we must obey GOD. We should also be in awe of GOD. GOD still chastens today. We must not emphasize the security of salvation and neglect obedience.
We hate evil. The church should be discreet in the will of the LORD. We don't love the world. We do not like films that are not written by the Holy Spirit. Not because we were ordered to, but because we understood that it is evil to watch something like that for pleasure. We go into the world to bring people to Jesus. There is no good reason to go out into the world just to enjoy it. We hate the lie. We strive to do everything in love and to love all people. But we hate evil.
There should be the opportunity to have fellowship and study the Bible every day. It shouldn't be compulsory. But there should be the opportunity to read the Bible together every day and talk about Jesus and ask questions. We should be like a family.
We have realized that Jewish teachings that hear and reject Jesus' words and reject HIM as Messiah, as well as Islamic teachings, are leaven, but we do not rise above Jews and Muslims. We don't hate Jews or Muslims either. We hate heresies, not people. We want all people to come to the knowledge of the truth.
We do not elevate ourselves above anyone because all good things come from GOD and therefore we cannot be better than other people. Only JESUS is good. We were simply given grace. We don't know why HE chose us. We did not choose HIM, but HE chose us. When we sin, we do it on our own. I have no opinion on free will.
We are always looking for truth, want to develop further and can therefore change beliefs at any time when we receive new knowledge.
Perhaps speaking in tongues and interpreting them is still relevant today, perhaps it has become less or has stopped. I have no opinion on that. Maybe the spiritual gifts have diminished, maybe not. I think all of them are possible. We should not rule out any gifts in principle, but rather examine everything with the Bible so that the Holy Spirit can work. God's Word is the standard for testing. In any case, prophecy and knowledge still exist today. So we should continue to seek prophecy today. GOD is sovereign.
It should go without saying: any sexual intimacy is only permitted within marriage. As believers, we only marry believing Christians and they usually only marry once. If our spouse commits fornication or dies, we are allowed to marry again. I don't know if there are exceptions. If, for example, the spouse abuses the woman psychologically or physically or vice versa, then that could be an exception, I haven't thought about that yet. But then he's not a believer at all or he's lost his way and has to turn back.
The earth is only a few thousand years old. The theory of evolution is a heresy. GOD created everything from HIM and through HIM all things exist. There was no Big Bang. We have chosen the Bible as the objective truth. We don't believe there are many truths. We believe that the truth is a narrow path and there are many lies in the world. Anything that contradicts the Word of God is a lie. We need correct interpretation to know the truth. To understand the correct interpretation, we must remain in God's Word. We can be wrong. We don't know if we understood anything at all. We just trust.
Who can help me?
PS: I come from Germany and used Google Translate, there may be a few translation errors.
Momo.
I am looking for a very specific community.
I would like to agree on the following points of belief:
The Torah, Gospels and Epistles are objectively true and eternally valid. This means: All of the apostles' precepts were inspired by the Holy Spirit and apply just as much today as they did back then. If it was a shame then for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered, it is also a shame today for a woman to pray or prophesy with her head uncovered. And the believing men teach the believing women, not the other way around. Women are different than men and have different tasks than men. There are always exceptional situations in everything. For example, it may be right for a believing woman to preach to a group of unbelievers because there is no one else to tell them about Jesus.
As a believer you have security of salvation. But we must obey GOD. We should also be in awe of GOD. GOD still chastens today. We must not emphasize the security of salvation and neglect obedience.
We hate evil. The church should be discreet in the will of the LORD. We don't love the world. We do not like films that are not written by the Holy Spirit. Not because we were ordered to, but because we understood that it is evil to watch something like that for pleasure. We go into the world to bring people to Jesus. There is no good reason to go out into the world just to enjoy it. We hate the lie. We strive to do everything in love and to love all people. But we hate evil.
There should be the opportunity to have fellowship and study the Bible every day. It shouldn't be compulsory. But there should be the opportunity to read the Bible together every day and talk about Jesus and ask questions. We should be like a family.
We have realized that Jewish teachings that hear and reject Jesus' words and reject HIM as Messiah, as well as Islamic teachings, are leaven, but we do not rise above Jews and Muslims. We don't hate Jews or Muslims either. We hate heresies, not people. We want all people to come to the knowledge of the truth.
We do not elevate ourselves above anyone because all good things come from GOD and therefore we cannot be better than other people. Only JESUS is good. We were simply given grace. We don't know why HE chose us. We did not choose HIM, but HE chose us. When we sin, we do it on our own. I have no opinion on free will.
We are always looking for truth, want to develop further and can therefore change beliefs at any time when we receive new knowledge.
Perhaps speaking in tongues and interpreting them is still relevant today, perhaps it has become less or has stopped. I have no opinion on that. Maybe the spiritual gifts have diminished, maybe not. I think all of them are possible. We should not rule out any gifts in principle, but rather examine everything with the Bible so that the Holy Spirit can work. God's Word is the standard for testing. In any case, prophecy and knowledge still exist today. So we should continue to seek prophecy today. GOD is sovereign.
It should go without saying: any sexual intimacy is only permitted within marriage. As believers, we only marry believing Christians and they usually only marry once. If our spouse commits fornication or dies, we are allowed to marry again. I don't know if there are exceptions. If, for example, the spouse abuses the woman psychologically or physically or vice versa, then that could be an exception, I haven't thought about that yet. But then he's not a believer at all or he's lost his way and has to turn back.
The earth is only a few thousand years old. The theory of evolution is a heresy. GOD created everything from HIM and through HIM all things exist. There was no Big Bang. We have chosen the Bible as the objective truth. We don't believe there are many truths. We believe that the truth is a narrow path and there are many lies in the world. Anything that contradicts the Word of God is a lie. We need correct interpretation to know the truth. To understand the correct interpretation, we must remain in God's Word. We can be wrong. We don't know if we understood anything at all. We just trust.
Who can help me?
PS: I come from Germany and used Google Translate, there may be a few translation errors.
Momo.
