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Originally Posted by Hot Coffee Ms.
So Hey,
There are those here who say they are our brother that by their own admission, have walked away from their churches, don't even have a church family, so what are you getting at? You didn't burst my Bubble, so get the grin off your face. So many are looking through rose colored glasses. I still live in the real world where right is right, and wrong is still wrong in the eyes of God.  |
Okay let's cut the Apostolic theatrics, HCM
I know the "We still stand for truth" shtick makes for crazed zealot sabre-rattling at rallies and euphoric hysteria at camp meetings.
BUT ...
Cooper made reference to Jesus eating and fellowshipping w/ sinners, WHICH IS TRUE, and you quipped back w/ a verse that you felt somehow
supports the "separation from the world" doctrine - which is code for dress code holiness makes me holier than thou.
You are deceived if you think long hair, ankle-length dresses or not owning a T.V. is separation from the things of this world.
I am skeptical of those who use micro-theology and play scriptural darts in the dark to support these type of extrabiblical erroneous teachings.
The writer, Paul, on several occasions speaks to those that are playing church and how to deal w/ them IN LOVE - and not arrogant high-browed disdain.
Yet, those who are exclusivists would like us to believe he was speaking about those who didn't dress the part or owned technology
they disapprove of ...
You will find no example of Paul doing so in the epistles... he always addresses those who are willingly and continually engaging
in sins of the heart. I challenge you to find a scripture where the NT church shuns brethren for not dressing holy - I humbly await.
It is interesting to note that the scripture you refer to brings to bear two interesting points.
1. Although these brethren are disorderly Paul still calls them brethren yet justifiably tells the church to withdraw
from them.
2. The scripture you provided, in context, deals w/ those who are in the church engaging in immoral acts and are guilty
of sins of the heart.
The Word is clear in its mandate on God-driven holiness -- it asks us to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh -- and to refrain from the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
Unfortunately, the exclusivist twist on the "separation from the world" doctrine has shunned many of the unchurched and churched. It misleads young people to think that as long as they don't cut their hair ... everything else is acceptable ... As in the young lady AB's son encountered at an org camp meeting who showed off her baby born out of wedlock but raved about how she never has cut her hair.
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