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I have not been booted.
I respect their “club”, but I do not view it as a valid assembly according to the Bible.
So should I deny the scripture to get along with crowd, cv5?
I tried to get involved with that church, but the more I read the scriptures the more I could see the gross errors that were being taught.
Knowing how precious the word of God is, I could not with good conscience surrender my sword to them.
I will never surrender my sword to anyone! Not even my flesh!
I respect their “club”, but I do not view it as a valid assembly according to the Bible.
So should I deny the scripture to get along with crowd, cv5?
I tried to get involved with that church, but the more I read the scriptures the more I could see the gross errors that were being taught.
Knowing how precious the word of God is, I could not with good conscience surrender my sword to them.
I will never surrender my sword to anyone! Not even my flesh!
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Most Christians do not understand that the KJV was never intended to be reguarded as an actual Translation. It is a Paraphase from earlier Translations, with archaic language, and known errors. So the updated the language and tried to correct some of the known errors. The Translation Team admitted all of that in the Original 1611 KJV PREFACE. And you can look it up for yourself.
Statements like this, make it a PRAPHASE and not an actual TRANSLATION:
https://www.ccel.org/bible/kjv/preface/pref1.htm
What gets me, is the KJV ONLY people most have been brainwashed, to believe the 1611 KJV was the ONLY GOD INSPIRED ENGLISH TRANSLATION. I have had more than one them tell me that word for word. It was NEVER a TRANSLATION in the first place, it was a Paraphrase.
Statements like this, make it a PRAPHASE and not an actual TRANSLATION:
QUOTE: Truly (good Christian Reader) wee never thought from the beginning, that we should neede to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, . . . but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principall good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath bene our indeavour, that our marke. . . . End Quote.
Here is the link if you want to read it for yourself, but know, it is Hard to read in that KJV English, can you imagine how antiquated the earlier Versions that predate the 1611 KJV that they Paraphrased, actually had to be.https://www.ccel.org/bible/kjv/preface/pref1.htm
What gets me, is the KJV ONLY people most have been brainwashed, to believe the 1611 KJV was the ONLY GOD INSPIRED ENGLISH TRANSLATION. I have had more than one them tell me that word for word. It was NEVER a TRANSLATION in the first place, it was a Paraphrase.
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How in the world can you "respect" a "club" of people that you believe are unsaved then call themselves a Church? And worse yet actually attend there regularly??
I don't have any respect whatsoever for any of the bogus prosperity gospel preachers and their fake churches.
Your entire story is falling apart at the seams. I think you are full of it.
I don't have any respect whatsoever for any of the bogus prosperity gospel preachers and their fake churches.
Your entire story is falling apart at the seams. I think you are full of it.
It is not judging to read a number of posts where a person gives their views and from that freely shared information draw conclusions as to their values.
If we ask people direct questions, the validity of the answers depends solely upon their character and love for the truth. So direct questions are less useful than the far greater amount of information otherwise gathered:
For example, Solomon asked two women if they were the mother of a child. Both said “yes.” Since biologically only one can be, one was lying. He sussed out the truth through an indirect method and was seenas wise.
If we ask people here if they want to please God, I doubt any would say “no.” But if they otherwise never show that this is a goal, they are fooling themselves. Jesus asked the religious leaders only few direct questions but spoke of their teachings often enough. He didn’t ask them if they thought their deeds matched their teaching as they’d have said “yes.” Their deeds did not.
Jesus described people who thought and would have said they were pleasing God, but God was not at all pleased. Whether God is pleased is for Him to say. He has told us what He wants so it isn’t a mystery.
If we ask people direct questions, the validity of the answers depends solely upon their character and love for the truth. So direct questions are less useful than the far greater amount of information otherwise gathered:
For example, Solomon asked two women if they were the mother of a child. Both said “yes.” Since biologically only one can be, one was lying. He sussed out the truth through an indirect method and was seenas wise.
If we ask people here if they want to please God, I doubt any would say “no.” But if they otherwise never show that this is a goal, they are fooling themselves. Jesus asked the religious leaders only few direct questions but spoke of their teachings often enough. He didn’t ask them if they thought their deeds matched their teaching as they’d have said “yes.” Their deeds did not.
Jesus described people who thought and would have said they were pleasing God, but God was not at all pleased. Whether God is pleased is for Him to say. He has told us what He wants so it isn’t a mystery.
Look, I don’t blame you.
I know how this sounds.
I find myself questioning myself at times, like when John the Baptist questioned if Jesus was in fact the Messiah. But this is the very reason I continue frequently reading the Bible, to stay strong in its truths. The flesh, though reckoned dead, still can creep in and lead into error unless a steady heavy dose of scripture is coming into your spirit.
And Jesus said:
Mark 8:38
[38] Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Some of Jesus’ words include, “Go, and sin no more.”
I am not ashamed of those words and will proclaim them without shame.
I know how this sounds.
I find myself questioning myself at times, like when John the Baptist questioned if Jesus was in fact the Messiah. But this is the very reason I continue frequently reading the Bible, to stay strong in its truths. The flesh, though reckoned dead, still can creep in and lead into error unless a steady heavy dose of scripture is coming into your spirit.
And Jesus said:
Mark 8:38
[38] Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Some of Jesus’ words include, “Go, and sin no more.”
I am not ashamed of those words and will proclaim them without shame.
I usual ask people who claim a sinless life, can you do what Jesus did regarding sin and ask those who live and work with you if they can see any sin or wrong in your behavior? That is actually the test.
If a person is sinless, everyone else will certainly know. We might be blind to our sin but the victims of our wrong choices certainly are not.
If a person is sinless, everyone else will certainly know. We might be blind to our sin but the victims of our wrong choices certainly are not.
It doesn’t make sense likely because in America so few look into historical matters but believe popular speakers whose talk pleases them, I guess. There’s a reason why so many cults come from America.
I am not a KJV only but I do know which powerful verses modern translations leave out. They concern the deity or character of christ or powerful tools to help. That cannot be a coincidence.
I am not a KJV only but I do know which powerful verses modern translations leave out. They concern the deity or character of christ or powerful tools to help. That cannot be a coincidence.
Knowing what they were doing and believing it was wrong can be two different things. Much like some here are saying. His point was though, which I thought good, is they are unredeemable because of it.
Pride which I believe was Lucifers ego because of his beauty, filled him to the point of blindness.
My opinion of course.
Your post came across as bitter towards me.
Pride which I believe was Lucifers ego because of his beauty, filled him to the point of blindness.
My opinion of course.
Your post came across as bitter towards me.