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Originally Posted by pelathais
No. In fact you depart from basic Apostolic teaching with that application. The Larkin chart that I showed you, though somewaht dated (but it's free to post it!) shows the majority teaching of the UPCI and most Apostolic groups.
The "we all must appear..." statement Paul is making is understood to be an Apostle talking to the Church. The "all" is "all believers," or "The Church." The Corinthians were famously wayward and Paul is admonishing them.
The Bema is not the Mega Shining Thronos. The believer does not appear before the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the age because the believer has already been judged at Calvary, throughout his walk and then received his reward or watched his works be burned at the Bema judgment following the Rapture.
Your attempts to marginalize this understanding shows that you probably haven't spent a lot of time in the Apostolic movement- no big deal there, but ask around, check with people you respect.
I can't speak for the PCI since it went out of existence long before I was born. However, I do know that what I have presented here includes nothing resembling "Inclusionist" teachings, but rather the basics that a first year Bible College student gets from any UPCI endorsed Bible College. This also is expounded in the Search for Truth and Exploring God's Word home bible studies available from the PPH, UPCI Home Missions Division and other Apostolic publishers.
Apostolics have been teaching this as a standard component of their dosctrine for... well for really longer than there's been a modern Apostolic movement. Either
1) You've completely misunderstood the things that I've posted, or
2) You are tired and not really comprehending what is being said, or
3) You haven't gone through a Home Bible Study with an Apostolic
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I hesitate to post this lest I be seen as casting a stone, but I feel it should be said just in case you don't know. My dear friend and brother in the Lord, EvanBenincasa is a full preterist. That may help you to understand some of the positions he takes on certain issues... especially where Larkin is concerned!
My dad was UPCI his entire ministry and Larkin was his favorite whuppin' boy with Ironsides comin' in a clost secund!
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