KH believes the Light Doctrine??

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Originally Posted by mizpeh

Elijah thought he was the last Israelite living for the true God. Unbeknownst to him God had reserved to Himself a remnant who did not bow the knee to Baal. Why didn't Elijah know about this remnant? Perhaps because he had been gone for a few years and these folks may have been in hiding to avoid persecution. If the remnant was not recorded in the Bible, would their existence have ever be known to any one reading Jewish history?

I'm finishing up a class in Western Civilization at my local university tomorrow. We've done a survey from Mesopotamia to the Catholic counter reformation. I was just reading in my textbook how the Catholic church condemned Martin Luther and ordered his writings burned and gave him a space to recant or be excommunicated. Fortunately for Luther the nobles in Germany didn't enforce the church's sentence. But burning of heretical writings and persecution of the heretics by the orthodox church is well know from the times of Constantine. There are reasons for the absence of evidence.

I've read Against Praxeas and it does seem like Praxeas was against the manifestation of the 'Paraclete' as evidenced by the Montanists. That doesn't mean he was against spiritual gifts completely but only the way in which the Montanists used or abused the gifts. I finished reading Eusebius' Church History for this class also and came across some writings in the 180's that spoke of the gifts of the Spirit including tongues in a much more favorable light. The gifts of the Spirit is one way in which God is manifest in our lives without it one would have to wonder if Christ was dwelling in them.

You can read what you want into the silence of history but I'm sticking with what the Bible says about salvation and the ability of God to preserve to Himself a remnant.

Amen...