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  • #16
    Originally posted by mossrose View Post
    When people are not taught correct theology they become undiscerning and can't see that what the person teaching them is saying is wrong.
    But they can teach themselves, but they don't take the time.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Christian3 View Post
      And another thing.

      When I listen to these Christians in my Bible class and see how they interpret some Scriptures I come to the conclusion that they are lazy. They just can't take the time to do a proper job of it. For instance, the subject came up yesterday about whether Jesus was the only way to God, TWO participants interpreted Jesus' comment "my Father has many rooms" (mansions) as an indication there would be people from other religious in some of those rooms as proof that Jesus was not only way.
      This is what happens when Bible study is treated a time when anybody can make a random suggestion, say "I think this is what it's saying to me", and everybody's ideas are treated as equally valid. I don't think that every small group out there needs to take advanced courseworks on hermeneutics and exegesis, but there needs to be some grounding.
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Christian3 View Post
        Peter did need to know that God declared the Gentiles clean, But Cornelius needed to hear the Gospel. When he did, he was baptized and received the Holy Spirit.
        Yeah, I misunderstood what you were asking. But actually, it's the other way around. Cornelius and his associates received the Holy Spirit and THEN were baptized.

        Acts 10
        44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.
        45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.
        46 For they heard them speaking in tongues[b] and praising God. Then Peter said,
        47 “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”
        48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
        That's what
        - She

        Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
        - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

        I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
        - Stephen R. Donaldson

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
          Yeah, I misunderstood what you were asking. But actually, it's the other way around. Cornelius and his associates received the Holy Spirit and THEN were baptized.

          Acts 10
          44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.
          45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.
          46 For they heard them speaking in tongues[b] and praising God. Then Peter said,
          47 “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”
          48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
          Thanks.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
            Yeah, I misunderstood what you were asking. But actually, it's the other way around. Cornelius and his associates received the Holy Spirit and THEN were baptized.

            Acts 10
            44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.
            45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.
            46 For they heard them speaking in tongues[b] and praising God. Then Peter said,
            47 “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”
            48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
            This demonstrates the problem of taking any one passage of Scripture -- perhaps especially historical narratives -- as universally normative.
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            "Everybody is somebody's heretic."

            Social Justice is usually the opposite of actual justice.

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