I consider myself to be an honest person. I have been saved for over half a century. I was baptized in the Holy Ghost in 1956. I have attempted over the half century of my preaching/teaching ministry to bend myself to fit the Word, not to bend the Word to fit my ideas and doctrine. There have been times I ha to change some of the things I have taught and preached as I have received a better understanding of the Word.
Me too Sam. That doesnt mean those things that bend us... happen instantainously.
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Yes as we grow in grace and as we study the word,we can see things differently.
Somethings we embrace things just because we have been taught them and we may not comprehend what we are taught,for we must read the word for ourselves.
We must be able to back up our beliefs with scripture and know what we believe and why we believe it. Sometimes preachers defend positions without knowing why they do,but they do because it's expected of them.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
No, Romans does not cancel out the Book of Acts.
Scripture does not contradict Scripture if/when taken and applied in context.
Acts 2:38 does not contradict nor cancel out Matthew 28:19 but there are differences of opinion among Christians on how the two passages work together.
Yes but the word has the final say our opinions don't count if they contradict the word or if we can't make all of the scriptures harmonize together.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
Me too Sam. That doesnt mean those things that bend us... happen instantainously.
I agree, Ferd. There may be an "aha" moment but that could very well be after a period of time.
Traditionally the date for the conversion/salvation of Saul of Tarsus was on January 25, AD 32 on the road outside of Damascus. At that time Jesus appeared to him personally and he called out to him, "Who art thou, Lord?" After the Lord told him who He was, Saul asked, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" But, when Jesus revealed Himself to him that day, He said, "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." We don't know how long Saul had been thinking and questioning and how long his conscience had been pricked. It could go back to when he saw Stephen martyred. It could be while he watched Christians respond to his persecution and arrests. It could go back to a time when he and other Pharisees pursued Jesus like a pack of hounds.
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
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Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
I agree, Ferd. There may be an "aha" moment but that could very well be after a period of time.
Traditionally the date for the conversion/salvation of Saul of Tarsus was on January 25, AD 32 on the road outside of Damascus. At that time Jesus appeared to him personally and he called out to him, "Who art thou, Lord?" After the Lord told him who He was, Saul asked, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" But, when Jesus revealed Himself to him that day, He said, "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." We don't know how long Saul had been thinking and questioning and how long his conscience had been pricked. It could go back to when he saw Stephen martyred. It could be while he watched Christians respond to his persecution and arrests. It could go back to a time when he and other Pharisees pursued Jesus like a pack of hounds.
plus didn't he go spend time afterwards in prayer and solitude before he started preaching? like maybe 3 years?
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. ~Tolkien
Refusing to sit under the false gospel and false doctrine of false teachers is not "forsaking the Assembly"
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
It was the same with me. It change was not instantaneous but I promise you I still remember being encountered with Romans the first time in my life. It was that moment that broke down everything in my life. Now, it took me seven or eight years before I finally broke away from the doctrine. I loved the movement and everything I knew was in that apostolic movement so it was very hard to leave. I tried to reconcile it first.
Gillespie doesn't claim that it was overnight that he changed. His testimony talks about how hard it was to change his beliefs.
I meant to point that out earlier. Haven't read his testimony in years but that much I recall.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
plus didn't he go spend time afterwards in prayer and solitude before he started preaching? like maybe 3 years?
In Acts 9:19-25 in seems he began preaching right away in Damascus. Then in verse 26 it speaks of him coming to Jerusalem. This may have been the 15 days he spent with Peter and James spoken of in Galatians 1:18-19. In verse 30 of that same 9th chapter of Acts he seems to drop out of view again and the churches "had rest." The 3 years in Arabia could fit into either of these places. In AD 42 Barnabas was sent by the leaders in Jerusalem to check out the church in Antioch because of the number of Gentiles in it. in Acts 11:25 Barnabus goes to Tarsus to seek for Saul and brings him to Antioch possibly in early AD 43. In the latter part of Acts 11 a prophet named Agabus prophesies of a famine that was coming. There was a poor harvest in AD 45 and a failed harvest in AD 46. It seems that Paul took food to the church at Jerusalem in AD 46 which would have been 14 years after his conversion and this is spoken of in Galatians 2:1-2. The going to Jerusalem "by revelation" may mean in response to the prophecy of Agabus a couple years before. It is recorded in the first few verses of Acts 13 that Paul and others were ministering as prophets and teachers in the Antioch assembly and he left there in March AD 47 (beginning of the sailing season for what we call his first missionary journey.
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
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