The language of most Apostolic preachers is carefully tailored to fit their false theological slant.
There is one or two Apostolic preachers that I can think of who will at least refer to The Father in a way that you clearly know that they know there is a distinction between the Person of the Father and the Person of the Son, but when I queried them, they both made it very clear of their desire to remain faithful to the 21st century Apostolic doctrine they believe and preach.
One of those men is my Dad, another one is an a preacher that I personally think so very, very highly of and that I respect so much.
I'm glad that despite Prax's insistence that apostolic preachers have no problem saying those things that others see what I have seen.
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It's funny...you guys realize that these were letters to churches? Right? And that every letter followed a typical form that was common during the Roman period...why do you expect people today to talk like they did then?
When you call someone do you say "Greetings to you and your house hold, in the name of God and his Son Jesus"???
Do you? When you talk to people do you use parables?
__________________ 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.
It's funny...you guys realize that these were letters to churches? Right? And that every letter followed a typical form that was common during the Roman period...why do you expect people today to talk like they did then?
When you call someone do you say "Greetings to you and your house hold, in the name of God and his Son Jesus"???
Do you? When you talk to people do you use parables?
When you pray tonight, will you begin the prayer with, "God you are the father of my lord and savior Jesus Christ and I want to think you for the salvation you gave to us through your son" Will you pray that? Or is there something in your beliefs so against praying and talking about God and Jesus in that way that you will not?
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When you pray tonight, will you begin the prayer with, "God you are the father of my lord and savior Jesus Christ and I want to think you for the salvation you gave to us through your son" Will you pray that? Or is there something in your beliefs so against praying and talking about God and Jesus in that way that you will not?
No, will you? How do you start your prayers?
BTW these were not prayers.
Why do I have to pray the exact words you post? More subjective reasoning.
Here is how I often start, but again not verbatim because we are not told to
"Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them:
__________________ 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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Scripture is its own interpreter. Nothing can cut a diamond but a diamond. Nothing can interpret Scripture but Scripture" Thomas Watson.
I wonder, if all the men in churches today would actually obey the Bible and greet each other with holy kisses, would there be any men in our churches that struggle with homosexuality?
Completely random thought, I know. Yet could there be something to this?
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