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Originally Posted by mfblume
To be closed minded about hearing another's differing view is simply wrong because we must ask ourselves what good would that make your views to someone else in return, if they held that opinion? We need each other. Someone in the body has something I do not know and I have something for the others as well. No man is an island. God works in a BODY in this earth and does not give all revelation to any one man so that he needs no help from anyone else.
When we think we cannot be wrong about something, then we know not as we ought to know. 
Thanks for your thoughts as well. |
I do not consider myself to be closed minded about anything which pertains to the sound precepts of the written Word of God, however, this is not to say that I will allow my fundamental beliefs to be altered because of the cleverly worded arguments and contentions of others. There exists only one way in which you, and anyone else, might ever realize a degree of success in causing me to alter such fundamental beliefs, and that is by proof of a multiplicity of sound passages from the Bible which pertains specifically to the matter under discussion. Jesus said that one is His disciple when they allow ONLY the precepts of His written Word to be their guide, and not the fallible words of mortals such as we are. And when He said that the Spirit of Truth would lead and guide me into ALL truth, then like a little child I accepted that He would do just that. And He has, even beyond my wildest expectations!
Without knowing me on a personal level, you could never begin to comprehend my reverence for the written Word of God. Although I have never taken a typing class in my entire life, and truly do employ the old "seek and ye shall find" method of typing, I have expended more than a year in carefully typing each word of the Bible, not once, but on two separate occasions. Why? Because as a young man I recall my Daddy telling me that if I should ever confront a question, the answer to which I was confident no man could ever answer properly, all I needed to do to have that answer was pick up the Bible and start reading. He equated this to locating the proverbial "needle in a haystack." He told me that it was possible to locate that "needle," although it might entail having to dismantle the entire haystack one straw at a time. I typed the Bible, word-for-word, in a search to locate an answer to something which was of great concern for me. I found it too, although not by typing it, rather it came when, in total frustration, I literally cried before God and asked Him why. The answer was found the very next time I opened my Bible and began to read. Guess God wanted to see my faith in Him before giving me the answer I sought, but I would do it all over again, if necessary, for in so doing I learned much more than the answer I had been seeking. I always expend more time in carefully researching the things which are taught from the pulpit than I do in time expended in sitting on the pew listening. I simply refuse to allow the words of others, regardless of the love, admiration or respect that I might hold for them, to ever become a part of my fundamental beliefs in God and the precepts of His written word, that is, unless that which is asserted as truth can be fully, and indisputably supported by a multiplicity of passages from the Bible. I was deceived once, and for an extended period of time, and this because I failed to do this simple task. By the grace and loving assistance of the ever-abiding Spirit of Truth, I am assured that I shall never become deceived again!
I do appreciate your humility about this matter, and once again, I would hope that you might find the time to pause and prayerfully reflect upon the merits of the things I have written to you this day.
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