I thought this was a fascinating blog by Piper today. He deals with Justification by faith alone. About five or so years ago I read some passages in the bible and this core doctrine just leaped from the pages and I was never the same again.
Many within the UPC say that they teach justification by faith and maybe some do. David Bernard has books about it. However, when my own father and I were not able to reconcile our beliefs on this doctrine my world came crashing down and I finally had to make my own decisions. He was highly regarded in our local church and among many as a very wise man and a great teacher. Yet it was this simple doctrine of justification by faith that separated us. The hardest thing I have ever done was to go a different path than my family.
Is justification by faith really that big a deal among Pentecostals. I determined that it wasn't being preaching and it has cost me so much. Yes, life is better, yes I have joy after having finally found saving faith, yes I have clear direction but everything I was is now gone.
I sometimes wonder if I had known how all this would play out if I wouldn't have just shut my bible and kept quiet.
you're not the only one who has left family over doctrine. my family is trinitarian but understand oneness from disscussions with me. They have not left their church.
you're not the only one who has left family over doctrine. my family is trinitarian but understand oneness from disscussions with me. They have not left their church.
I find it ironic that my parents left the Baptist church when they were both 18 to become pentecostal and now almost 40 years later I have left and faced some of the same issues they went through. At the time that they left no one even knew what pentecostal was. They lost everything as well. My dad was the star quarterback and my mom was the beauty queen so for them to leave was huge.
To them speaking in tongues, oneness, and Acts 2:38 was what they were looking for. I tried to do it their way but I waited until the age 27 to start making a stand.
If I had two minutes with the Pope I'd want to wear that nifty hat! lol
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
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