Is Acts 2:38 your god?

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by stmatthew

Let me address this.

First, Jeff Arnold made a stupid remark when he stated that "Many in the movement do not know God". Does he have statistics on this?? Has he got a line to God where God has told him this? JA is real good at being a "shock jock" type preacher, IMHO.

His statement "You are married to doctrine and have divorced yourself from Deity" is another "Shock Jock" type comment. If examined, this is as ignorant a statement as the first one. The Word, which is exalted even above the name of Jesus, is profitable for DOCTRINE. We only know God by knowing his DOCTRINE.

Paul must have thought DOCTRINE was pretty important when he stated to Timothy:

1Ti 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

and

1Ti 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

or his warning to those that did not want DOCTRINE.

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;


John sums it up nicely when he says:

2Jo 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
2Jo 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed:


Lets face the facts that God places a great emphasis upon doctrine, because it is by doctrine that we can know Christ. Evidentially, JA does not have that same emphesis.

thanks, Matt.

I thought about doing this, but have just about gotten jaded with trying to convince former Apostolics that doctrine matters.