If I am wrong then let's give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and let's serve the living and true God and wait for his Son, Jesus, from heaven, whom he raised from the dead!!!
Or are you not comfortable with the way I said that? Are you sure it doesn't make you uneasy? Be honest!
I don't have the problem with that but the fact is that is not how you normally talk now is it?
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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.
That is a response from not actually getting the point.
Who would stop to think God might be THREE PERSONS after reading the bible without limiting His nature to that of a human being? That is the only reason anyone would do that. Yes, God could do anything, even manifest as THREE PERSONS, outside the premise of someone basing their perspective of Him on human limitations. But the bible does not say He did that. Nothing in the bible demands that we believe that the way it is promoted. The scriptural record allows for, to say the least, for so much more than that--and by MORE I mean beyond such foolish limitations. We base our views on th scriptural record. We are directed to believe and not believe according to the confines of how the Bible relates Him. Or, I could say, we are not to limit Him where the bible does not limit Him.
He is a person, though!
Heb 1:3 KJV Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
OK, Jesus is a person. The person through whom God spoke "in these last days", as opposed to speaking through prophets.
But no, of course nobody could possibly read the Bible and see three (or two) persons. Nobody. (Except most Christians, but I guess they made the mistake of limiting God's nature to that of a human being! )
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
The above isn't even somewhat normal to hear from the pulpit or at the dinner table?
No, I never hear it from anyone...and I mean ANYONE not just Oneness. Up until now you haven't been posting that way and I have pointed that out several times now.
Why?
__________________ 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.
I talk and pray like that, and think in such terms. Guess I'm the weirdy!
If you talked like that here I have not noticed. I often pray like that but when I talk to my friends we don't talk in prose, Victorian english, parables or biblical idioms.
Other than you, I don't see anyone here confessing to talking like they are a bible recording
__________________ 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.
OK, Jesus is a person. The person through whom God spoke "in these last days", as opposed to speaking through prophets.
But no, of course nobody could possibly read the Bible and see three (or two) persons. Nobody. (Except most Christians, but I guess they made the mistake of limiting God's nature to that of a human being! )
Most of those Christians were taught all their life the Father, Son and Spirit are three different persons
In fact many have been so indoctrinated that the way they envision the three are as three separate beings
__________________ 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.
OK, Jesus is a person. The person through whom God spoke "in these last days", as opposed to speaking through prophets.
You totally misread that reference! I guess my words would be less carefully read than the bible. So...
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Most of those Christians were taught all their life the Father, Son and Spirit are three different persons
In fact many have been so indoctrinated that the way they envision the three are as three separate beings
Lol. In fact, for centuries people were told to believe the three persons at pain of death! Sorta takes hold under similar circumstances.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
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