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I'm not the one confused about being on the offensive against those who attack traditional churches and still holding to the teaching about not being judgmental.
On the contrary, it is not judgmental to defend the faith.
I admit outright that I am attacking traditional churches and that I am judgmental, in the context of testing every spirit. A practice supported by Scriptural teaching.
Here you confuse heresiological apologerics, which fall under the category of discernment, with opting to pronounce moral judgements upon the personal ethics of others, which you presumably feel it is alright for you to do, but not for me to do, which one might well be forgiven for regarding, ceteris paribus, as hypocritical.
Other traditions are again not Scriptural, and worse, are suspiciously unscriptural, such as the use of icons.
Of the teachings that are scriptural, how do they contribute to bringing people out of the futility of living in the world?
This sounds suspiciously Gnostic. You on the one hand challenge the incarnation implicitly by rejecting the depiction of our Lord according to His humanity, and then make a valid soteriological utterance, but one which nonetheless is one prone to Docetic or Gnostic escapist misinterpretation.
Contrast that with the teachings of Jesus, the revelation that he was the reality, of which Moses and Joshua only delivered in type. Entry into the Promised Land was not the salvation promised to Abraham. That is why there remained a rest for people of God to enter into, the rest in Christ, in whom we can truly become the blessing to the world promised to Abraham, the eternal mode of living the Jews searched scriptures for. Christ unwrapped the teaching and the words he employed motivated those who were of God's flock to follow Christ out of the world. To those who hesitated, the miracles he worked were additional confirmation of the certification he had from God that he was the one to fulfill the promise.
I agree.
The Charismatic movement FUNCTIONS RIGHT in moving people into an environment where they are exposed to God's word.
That's questionable.
How else can anyone “drink from the Rock”?
Through membership in the Body of Christ and participation in the holy sacraments.
You should tell me how enshrining “tradition” does the same.
I can address the other points if you still need me to do so, but I think this is more important.
This thread was not even intended to address Charismatic issues, so I have no inclination of going there.
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