Re: David Bernard - Is this statement biblical or
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Originally Posted by OfInterest
That is part of the problem. Many of the good people are pretending it's not code speak and many other good people who don't share his beliefs on such issues are labeled as backsliders or heretics. Unity rarely comes from statements such as these. I do not know of any christian who believes that holiness is not necessary to salvation, even if they differ on what that may look like.
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I'm not "pretending" it's not code speak; it very well could be. However, I don't like to assume, and he didn't elaborate so that's that.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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