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To: DouglasKC
Nope, you used the phrase "your church"

Yeah I did. Sometimes considered the same as a religious organization that you "fellowship with and attend services with." I assumed that would be the same as your church. My apologies.

No we went back and forth because you can't argue scripture so you focus on other things.

I don't know that we have different scriptures. From the articles I read at your.. religious organization that you "fellowship with and attend services with" it is obvious one can look at the same canon and come up with considerably different views on Christ, God, worship and man.

Now I can post the scripture of Christ saying he and the Father are One, and you can post scripture of Christ saying "Our Father Who art in heaven..." and we can go on and on with dueling scriptures from there.

I know you've had this exercise before on the Neverending Thread.

Same canon, different scriptures - or even the same scriptures quoted - and quite different Christologies and Theologies.

And if scripture were obviously the same in meaning to all then what is the purpose of the document "Fundamental Beliefs" that you pointed me to.

So what we are dealing with is interpretation. It can't be avoided. We must of course back up our interpretation with scripture - which we both can do - for pages and pages with footnotes.

Now, what I would maintain, scripturally, is that polytheism, or any interpretation that leads to it, is contrary to scripture.

This is what I was engaging you in earlier.

If your interpretation, your "Fundamental Beliefs" of the religious organization that you fellowship with and attend services with, leads to or interprets scripture to mean more than one God, then that is in error.

So we can argue scripture all day, but if this is where you end up, somewhere, somehow, someone has made a wrong turn.

119 posted on 04/16/2006 12:51:22 AM PDT by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr
If your interpretation, your "Fundamental Beliefs" of the religious organization that you fellowship with and attend services with, leads to or interprets scripture to mean more than one God, then that is in error.

I guess we agree then because as I've explained, I don't and neither does United.

124 posted on 04/16/2006 6:48:06 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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