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To: Quix
I don't disagree with that and should have qualified what I said with understanding en toto. What irks me the most is precisely what's under discussion, and that's eschatology. It irks me because it baffled great men of God after the NT period - men like Augustine, who to this day is "fought over" by various camps. There's no Augustine, Acquinus, Luther, Calvin, Wesley in our day - not even close, because we no longer thing upon deep things because we're too busy being entertained. Therefore, so anyone talking about this is rightly subject to great suspicion as to their motives.

AoG - Assembly of God? My in-laws are AoG - conservative, homeschooling, working-class rural people. Very godly people. We get along well and I love them dearly though we don't agree on everything. AoG are pretty broad in their beliefs if I'm not mistaken.

As far as Camping castigating them, that may be a part of his appeal with them, oddly enough, as he clearly sees himself as a John the Baptist figurehead.

36 posted on 05/07/2011 10:25:01 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom

I think AoG—as I was reared . . .

are typically quite broadly generous, kind, inclusive of a wide diversity of people—come as you are . . . mostly at least the better ones . . . strongly supportive of the family, Biblical inerrancy, basic doctrines of the faith; Acts 2; I Cor 12-14 etc.

They can be fairly narrow and rigid on their view of their distinctives—speaking in tongues being—at least used to be—THE test of “being Spirit filled.” That’s the one main one I disagreed with.

Yet, they do suffer a fairly diverse range of teachings as long as their ministers support the basic doctrines of Christianity and are NOT cessationists . . . and PREACH SCRIPTURE STRAIGHTFORWARDLY.

They are not—or were not when I was in them—overly rigid about the Rapture. And a lot of other things they may believe but hold loosely and are not dogmatic about.

There is a lot of encouraging individuals to go to The Bible and study for themselves vs just taking what the preacher says.

I like that.


38 posted on 05/07/2011 10:36:08 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Lexinom

Assembly Of Godder’s have surpassed Catholicism in wealth.
They bash Catholics from the pulpit. Just another cult.
I see more so called preachers on TV getting a thousand dollar seed money from callers as the preacher lives in a million dollar home. This is not God.


265 posted on 05/11/2011 7:16:12 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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