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To: William Terrell

You know, I read it for a third time, and I don't understand how your thoughts relate to the scripture in view. Are they supposed to?


824 posted on 11/10/2006 3:26:11 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
You know, I read it for a third time, and I don't understand how your thoughts relate to the scripture in view. Are they supposed to?

You quote scripture. Then you tell me what the scripture means, not by your testimony but by the church's, who has taught you those things. Another person, not under the influence of preconditioned beliefs, would not read the church's interpretation into it.

Therefore, the church's scriptural interpolation is not sovereign in and of itself, or else who could gainsay it? This is what you quote me.

Further, if God were to intend to establish a church that can judge the souls of men to exalt some up to Heaven or cast others down to Hell by its election, and specify how they shall worship and to whom they have to seek sovereign guidance in all matters of the worship, He would have specified it PLAINLY in scripture, so there could be no dissent.

I'm giving you reasons that I reject the meaning of those scriptures.

There can be no church (as to say, no collective or artificial person made of human beings) as it describes itself. I gave reasons why.

Those reasons lead to a scriptural conflict, which I described.

And I ended with an analogy of how the church stands on spiritual salvation of an individual.

825 posted on 11/10/2006 5:25:15 PM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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