I really don' think we've preached ourselves into a corner more than technology has outflanked us. I don't think that preaching against TV was overboard, it was what it was, another way to keep the world out of your home and to some that was very important.
Now that the internet and cell phones are here, it has become increasingly different and more difficult for people to believe that TV was bad, and at one time it really was, and still can be, but........so can the internet and the cell phone.
It's really a matter of personal convictions and committment. How far are we willing to go to keep our OWN level of committment to God and HIS plans that HE has for us.
Very well put LCS. I am just now reading this and you are hitting the nail on the head.
Technology changes and evolves.
God's principles & consecration never changes.
Although I certainly understand the concerns here. And they are justified.
I wonder where were the ones concerned when some were going overboard with the standards, causing folks to not be able to measure up and then studying for themselves to find out they were being taught things were sin when in fact it was not.
However, I wil say this. What is sin for one MAY not be for another. One may can watch TV and control what they watch where another may have no control. Same for a phone, one may can control what they say and listen to where another can not. But we don't preach against phones, yet how many have used this device to sow discord?
We need to teach LOVE God and the character of being a Christian; which is being Christ like.
You can never have a list of things to do and not do and hit every person without going over board. Folks have to learn to seek out their own salvation with FEAR and TREMBLING, which I don't think many do.
Esther,
This is true to a point.
There is a difference between teaching rules & teaching principles.
We have "Rules" & "Bylaws" to better be organized.
Otherwise it is confusion.
It will be a really cold day in a very, very hot place before you'll find 'tolerance' in me for absolute false doctrine. That's not called 'intolerance' but 'steadfast in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship'.
If truth doens't matter then why waste our time having Church.
Trinity doctrine is from the Catholic Church.
Aside from being wrong doctrinally, I have a hard time believing people realy know who God is if they accept Trinity doctrine.
I don't agree with how true trinitarians view the godhead, but that doesn't mean that I cannot love them and fellowship with them as brothers and sisters in the Lord. They do love Jesus; they just explain it all differently. I refuse to sing the doxology and I cringe if I see someone baptized in the titles (NOT at our church, but other places), because I am firmly convinced that what I believe is truth. However, I will not discount those who don't understand this truth, if they truly are serving God. He will be the one who has to sort all that out at Judgement.
I don't agree with how true trinitarians view the godhead, but that doesn't mean that I cannot love them and fellowship with them as brothers and sisters in the Lord. They do love Jesus; they just explain it all differently. I refuse to sing the doxology and I cringe if I see someone baptized in the titles (NOT at our church, but other places), because I am firmly convinced that what I believe is truth. However, I will not discount those who don't understand this truth, if they truly are serving God. He will be the one who has to sort all that out at Judgement.
I sing the doxology. Doesn't bother me a bit, just change a few words and it works just fine, even stay on key.
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I shudder to think what the PAW is going to look like 10-15 years from now.
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I don't agree with how true trinitarians view the godhead, but that doesn't mean that I cannot love them and fellowship with them as brothers and sisters in the Lord. They do love Jesus; they just explain it all differently. I refuse to sing the doxology and I cringe if I see someone baptized in the titles (NOT at our church, but other places), because I am firmly convinced that what I believe is truth. However, I will not discount those who don't understand this truth, if they truly are serving God. He will be the one who has to sort all that out at Judgement.
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Originally Posted by crakjak
I sing the doxology. Doesn't bother me a bit, just change a few words and it works just fine, even stay on key.
Question: what's so wrong, from a Oneness point of view, with praising the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? These are manifestations of God, right? Isn't the Father worthy of praise? Isn't the Son? Isn't the Holy Ghost?
Does it always bother you to see a list of the three, like that? I dunno, can't see how a list of the manifestations automatically implies a belief in the Trinity.
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Question: what's so wrong, from a Oneness point of view, with praising the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? These are manifestations of God, right? Isn't the Father worthy of praise? Isn't the Son? Isn't the Holy Ghost?
Does it always bother you to see a list of the three, like that? I dunno, can't see how a list of the manifestations automatically implies a belief in the Trinity.
NO.
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