I believe that every word in the bible is Gods Word, from cover to cover. So I don't have a problem with any of it, but I reject your interpretation of all the scriptures you twisted to force them to say something thewy are not saying. This is to abuse Gods Word.
How did I abuse:
Acts 5:
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
If you are going to make such serious accusations you should at least provide some evidence. Something I said that contradicts what is actually written in scripture. I don't think God is going to just take your word for it, and either should I. Show me where I twisted these or any scriptures so I can be corrected, isn't that the reason for the Holy Scriptures in the first place, at least according to Paul?
2 Tim. 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
I asked you why you reject what God has said, but you gave no answer.
But Dan, I absolutely answered your accusation towards me by posting for you who Paul was Speaking about when he said;
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have "before proved" both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
I showed where Paul "before proved" that "They" (whose damnation is just), not "WE" (Church of God) as you assert, but
they are all under sin.
Rom. 2:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing "seek for" glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Church of God, who Seeks God)
8 "But unto them" that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, ( children of men, who doesn't Seek God)
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon "every soul of man" that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
But You didn't even address Paul's words at all, as I asked. Nor David's Words that Paul quoted that I asked you to review. You didn't even acknowledge them. And now you are accusing me of not answering your questions.
The Church of God are NOT the men that God, David, Paul and Jesus said
refused to Seek Him. Someone has convinced "many" that there is no difference between David and Paul, and the Pharisees. But it wasn't Paul, or David or Jesus or the Holy Scriptures, in my view.
Abel was Righteous, Noah was Righteous, Abraham was righteous, Caleb was righteous, David was righteous. Here is what God teaches about Zacharias, not according some preacher I listened to, but according to the Actual Holy Scriptures. Shall I not believe them?
Luke 1:
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And they were both "righteous before God", walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
So according to Peter's Words that I also posted, and were completely ignored, Zacharias should have been given by God, the Holy Spirit, Yes?
Luke 1:
67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Zacharias actually knew of and believed in the Messiah before HE was even born. While the children of men didn't believe Him when HE was healing people right in front to them.
But there are men that are trying to convince me that Abel's, Noah's, Abraham's, Caleb's, Daniel's, Shadrack's, Simeon's, Cornelius's and even Zacharias's, "mouth is an open sepulechre". That Paul was judging all these faithful obedient men,
of never seeking God.
Consider the words of David that Paul quoted;
Ps. 9:
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken "them that seek thee".
But there are those who will not Seek the Lord.
Ps. 10:
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will "not seek after God": God is not in all his thoughts.
Ps. 27:
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that "will I seek after"; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Ps. 22:
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD "that seek him": your heart shall live for ever.
Ps. 24:
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them "that seek him", "that seek thy face", O Jacob. Selah.
Ps. 27:
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, "will I seek".
Ps. 34:
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they "that seek the LORD" shall not want any good thing. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Ps. 63: 1 O God, thou art my God; early "will I seek thee": my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
I could go on and on and on. The teaching that Paul and David, who Paul quoted, is teaching that there is NO ONE that Seeks God, might hold water if a man rejects the entire rest of the Bible.
What I'm saying is that according to what is actually written in scriptures, when all of them are considered, there are "Children of men" who
refuse to Seek Him. But there are also those men who believe what Jesus instructed us to do, "
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and "his righteousness"; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Paul and Peter and Zacharias, and David and Abraham and Noah and all the Faithful examples God gave us in the Scriptures that make up the Church of God,
are not the target of Paul or David or God's teaching. Not because I said so, but because of all the Holy Inspired Words of God, that I posted for men's consideration, said so.
10 As it is written, Ps. 14: 1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for "God is in" the generation of the righteous.
You resorted to making false allegations about my faith, with zero evidence to support your false accusations.
It was the teaching of the Post that I challenged, as I am instructed to do. It was nothing personal, except that it was your post.
"We can only obey after we are born again and receive the Holy Spirit, and it is the Holy Spirit who leads us and enables us to obey".
God, His Son, the Jesus "of the Bible", James, Peter and Moses, all the Prophets and Paul all refute this religious philosophy when a man considers all of their teaching, in my view. I even posted Peter's own Words in the hope that men might consider them and become "renewed in the spirit of their mind" and consider Peter's teaching. Men are free to lash out at me, Jesus said it would be this way, and I really don't care. And God knows I don't like being corrected either in the moment, but have grown to be thankful for the correction, once I get control of my flesh. It's more important to me personally that men consider the Scriptures and maybe by discussing them we can grow in the knowledge of the Lord.
"Nobody has ever been able to keep the law anyway",
God Word seem to contradict this in my understanding. While every man has sinned, there are those who "repented", Turned to God", and brought forth "works worthy of repentance", as Paul teaches both Jew and Gentile. If men are interested in finding out who God said obeyed Him, I am happy to provide for them several people who God's Word Itself, Glorified to the point that everyone, who has ever had a Bible, knows that they were Faithful obedient servants to God. How many men who died in Sodom, do we know the names of? Not One, Yes? But we do know about Abraham whose SEED was blessed by God Himself, as God Said "
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. Why would a person want to demean these most Faithful men by preaching to others that they, or their faithful obedience to God never existed, and in the process, accuse God of Lying about them?
God gave us the commandments to show us that nobody could keep any of them"
I would really be interested in the source of this teaching, because I know that the Holy Scriptures, nor the God who inspired them, nor Moses and the Prophets HE sent, nor His Son Jesus, nor any of His Apostles ever said that God gave His People Laws, to show them they couldn't keep them, which means both HE lied to men when HE told them they could keep them, and yet God killed them by the thousands when they didn't keep them. I would advocate really "Taking heed" of a religious sect or business that promoted such a philosophy, given what is actually written in Scriptures.
We are all born into a world in which religious deceivers exist "that Profess to know God". Just as Eve was placed in the same world.
I advocate that men "come out of her" and follow the Christ "of the bible", and become a "Doer of His Sayings" and not a hearer only.
But it seems like a very controversial position to take, in this world God placed me in.
