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04-30-2014, 05:07 PM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
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04-30-2014, 06:26 PM
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Dead horse beating is serious business but it does get a little boring after a while...
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04-30-2014, 07:35 PM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
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Dead horse beating is serious business but it does get a little boring after a while...
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04-30-2014, 08:35 PM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
Poor Mr. Ed.
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04-30-2014, 10:33 PM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
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I think it could be a conflict in their spirit with man made doctrines and traditions and "church culture" vs the Spirit of God that is trying to lead them in a direction He would have them go.
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Oh, sure. I completely agree with that.
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I think this can cause some agitation and frustration because some things are so rooted and hard to break out of.Jesus spoke to Saul and said "Its hard for thee to kick against the pricks." So Jesus was doing some pricking and Saul was lashing out and reacting against it.Ive found that when I am most defensive about something...that is when there are deeper issues that need to be dealt with......Show me someone that is overly emotional and reactive when their beliefs are challenged and Ill show you someone that has some unconscious unbelief or insecurity.
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Right.
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04-30-2014, 10:34 PM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
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Preach it! Do you bear fruits? There are going to be a lot of long hair having, no pants wearing, no tv watching people in hell. There are also going to be some who on earth didnt fit the supposed saved mold in heaven.
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So why do people use as a measuring stick, things that can so easily be faked? What do you think?
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04-30-2014, 10:50 PM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
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I realize that it does get old to hear that the same issues that were involved in discussion 10 or even 15 years ago and many of these same issues are still being discussed today. Why do you think that is?
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I think it is that way because the people who bring up problems often get pointed out as BEING the problem, when in reality that isn't the case at all. So the root issues never get addressed because they are silenced.
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As I said before...several times now, Please by all means discuss issues. I believe we CAN without having to always to "The UPC this and the UPC that".
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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04-30-2014, 10:53 PM
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For the Record
I never silenced anyone. I never said we should not discuss topics even those that pertain directly or indirectly with the UPC.
In fact any honest person reading this forum would have to admit I have discussed many many topics that do and I have both defended and opposed certain views.
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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05-01-2014, 08:53 AM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
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Correct. And I wish the thread would have just been about churches in general, instead of focusing on the UPC.
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I think the point is that the UPC is supposed to be the true church . Or claims to be anyway.
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05-01-2014, 08:58 AM
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Re: You Can Fake It All
Think about the Amish. Can people live the Amish lifestyle without God? Of course they can. It is simply a matter of wearing the right clothes and abstaining from certain behaviors. Anybody can be Amish without being spiritual.
The thing is, the Amish measure a person's spirituality by the clothes they wear and the behaviors they have.
There are things that are obviously ungodly. Shooting heroin, for example. Someone could not live a godly lifestyle and shoot heroin. However, most people in this world are not living a lifestyle that is overtly sinful. They wake up in the morning, make a sandwich for lunch, go to their jobs and kiss their children at night. All these people would have to do in any religion that measures godliness by external measures is to simply do these external measures to be accepted. They would not need an experience with God. They get baptized the way thus and church says to. They pay tithes. They do whatever they need to do. But does this prove their spirituality the way thus and so church says it does? Or does it just prove to the people that attend that church that this person is "on board" and trying to please the church members?
I think the only time spirituality and church membership cannot be faked is with people who have extreme addictions that they can't control. These people can be delivered and then live a truly spiritual life. But for the majority of people, they don't need a spiritual experience to follow some rules and abstain or do certain behaviors and they fit right in, completely without any experience with God.
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