Rigthly dividing the Word.

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p_rehbein

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All of this being said, you still did not answer my questions.

1) What purpose (if any) did you have in mind when you posted the OP? Any particular point of Theological debate in mind?

2) If I state a Theological belief and have 12 Scriptures to support my belief, and you disagree with my belief, but have only 9 Scriptures to support your belief, does that mean MY belief is Biblical Truth and yours is not?

Again, I do not believe or accept that Biblical Truth can be reduced in such a way as counting Scriptures. I can think of several ideologies that have numerous Scriptures to support both sides.............So now, we have to have a Bookkeeper in each Congregation to keep up with how many Scriptures support what the Teachers/Pastors are teaching/preaching to determine if they are teaching/preaching Biblical Truth?

Where, in all of this, do you place the importance of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit? I do not see Him in your equation.
 
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louis

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p_rehbein said:
Seriously? You read those Scriptures and you could not discern they SAID that the precious blood of Christ, shed on Calvary's Cross IS what cleanses us from all our sins? How can you discern Scriptures regarding the anti-christ and not discern Scriptures that speak directly of the fact that the shedding of blood is required for the forgiveness of sin? How could you not discern that our very salvation is because of the precious blood of Christ?

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I'm not disagreeing with you that the blood of Christ is the atonement for they who want to get right with the Lord.
I'm just saying that you put up several dozen scriptures about blood, without making any connections.
Revelation 10:7 describes the mystery of God coming to completion at some point in the future.
The mystery of God is in His Word today, and if we can connect the dots correctly, the better and closer we come to understanding it.
I believe I have connected several of those dots correctly, versus, what have for many years been incorrect assessments based on one or two scriptures, which deny other scriptures.
 
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Embankment

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Besides there are ideas like the trinity that have no scriptures but are excepted ideas.
The point is, the Bible is written to establish a particular narrative. The story is there and established.
To buck against with proof text and such to establish your on agenda clearly is like spitting in the face of God.
 
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louis

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p_rehbein said:
All of this being said, you still did not answer my questions.

1) What purpose (if any) did you have in mind when you posted the OP? Any particular point of Theological debate in mind?
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I provided the example in Acts 17 of the well studied in the Word who knew what was true, versus the non studied in the Word who had some fictitious dogma of what the Word represented.
To repeat what I previously posted; the point is to be well studied in the Word so that you can recognize the truth, and not be unstudied in the Word where Satan's delusions abound.

p_rehbein said:
2) If I state a Theological belief and have 12 Scriptures to support my belief, and you disagree with my belief, but have only 9 Scriptures to support your belief, does that mean MY belief is Biblical Truth and yours is not?

Again, I do not believe or accept that Biblical Truth can be reduced in such a way as counting Scriptures. I can think of several ideologies that have numerous Scriptures to support both sides.............So now, we have to have a Bookkeeper in each Congregation to keep up with how many Scriptures support what the Teachers/Pastors are teaching/preaching to determine if they are teaching/preaching Biblical Truth?

Where, in all of this, do you place the importance of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit? I do not see Him in your equation.
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If you state a theological belief and have several scriptures that correlate and corroborate your perspective while not denying other scriptures on the subject, then your perspective would supersede another's theological belief based on one, two, or a few scriptures, but which deny other scriptures on the subject. All of God's Word confirms itself.
 
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