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originally posted by: OpinionatedB
Do you think Jesus was a liar? See I don't believe He ever once lied, nor did He ever once contradict Himself.
originally posted by: Murgatroid
Sometimes our actions can be more important than our words.
Damnable doctrines need to be exposed for the false teachings that they are.
originally posted by: nenothtu
originally posted by: Murgatroid
Sometimes our actions can be more important than our words.
Damnable doctrines need to be exposed for the false teachings that they are.
"Baptists", "Methodists", "Presbeyterians", and so on and so forth wouldn't need to cut each other's throats for converts to their OWN label if they weren't "cults".
originally posted by: nenothtu
You say "cult" like it's a bad thing, rather than just another kind of division, which does make me wonder about YOUR cult.
originally posted by: OpinionatedB
Since he felt called by God, he quit and told God that if God wanted him preaching about religion then He would have to put him where God wanted him... so he ended up in time, pastoring a small church, for not one dime.
I think most of these Christian preachers do it for the money, and parrot what their prospective church goers want to hear, rather than anything resembling the truth. I think they mainly care about the money more than anything, although I am sure there are exceptions to that rule.
originally posted by: Murgatroid
I will say that I see nothing concerning good fruit when it comes to cults.
I am sure you remember what scripture says about that.
My 'cult' has for years has typically been non-denominational charismatic churches.
The first church I set foot in as an adult was the original Vineyard and then went to Setfree in Anaheim, CA.
Yeah, I think I see where you are going with this, many call these places cults.
Because they don't think that.
Facts Adventists Won’t Tell
From my experience, people who put up anti-cult web sites are happy to lie to their readers.
History has shown that cults will ALWAYS lie to you and the SDA is no exception.
The "new covenant" is not any more literal than Jesus being of the order of Melchizedek.
Because of the blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross He made available to us a new covenant between God and man, a new relationship. Everything about the new covenant has to do with the Spirit, not the law.
"Spiritual" in regards to the new covenant is that it is not physical like the old one where it starts out with instructions on how to make a building and to perform ceremonies.
Too many people are teaching the written word without teaching the Spirit, which is how to hear God’s voice in you, the Holy Spirit.
..but Melchazidek is the everlasting priesthood. The Priesthood of Christ.
The point the writer was making is of a priest class of one.
It was one with Melchizedek, and it is one with Jesus.
the Believer knows Peace is the name of an individual.
I don't know where you get that from.
This seems to be a philosophy rather than a Bible teaching.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
(2011 NIV)
Making effort, or "to act fervently" in the figurative sense of the Greek, is the opposite of resting.
The "rest" is the goal of our activity.
None of what is being said in Hebrews has anything to do with the literal weekly Sabbath from the Ten Commandments.
The writer is just using it to make an analogy.
So many cannot see past these traditions..whether Hebrew or Gentile...for with the Sabbath ..none of this mattered.
This is another reason for the demise of the temple by 70 ad.
I hope that you are not saying that the Sabbath was the cause.
...by covering us with His redeeming Blood.
This comes from your reading the King James.
King James gave orders to make the translation to support already existing church doctrine.
I was just looking at Revelation 1:5, where it says, "To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood," where in the King James, it says, "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,".
There isn't anything in the Greek to justify that translation, unless it is just tradition.
You claim to not follow traditions of men, but you use the most loaded with tradition translation there is.
I do, and perhaps it's a difference in how we individually interpret "cult" in our own heads, AFTER the word is stated.