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To: kosta50

Looking at the church's history, they have lacked discernment in who they gave authority to.

I take authority from the Word of God. I have the gift of teaching and the gift of prophecy. To not utilize those gifts would be to despise what God has given me.

Sorry Kosta, neither you or your church can take away the authority that God has given me as one who ministers in His name.


4,597 posted on 01/09/2007 8:58:04 AM PST by Blogger (In nullo gloriandum quando nostrum nihil sit- Cyprian)
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To: Blogger
Sorry Kosta, neither you [n]or your church can take away the authority that God has given me as one who ministers in His name

Oh, you can appoint yourself the Emperor of North America for all I care. Why not the world? In your own mind you can be whatever you wish to be. But the trick is for the world to recognize that in you.

God did not give you authority. He gave you talents which we all should use to multiply them for the benefit of the world. In that I respect your faith and your desire to spread the word of God.

God gave specific authority (powers) to his Apostles and to the Church He established, reminding us that not all are apostles, prophets and presbyters, and teachers...

His apostles were left in charge. No one was walking around with a Bible in his or her hands in those days. God did not leave us a neatly bound Bible in our hands and He did not command the people to "read, tech and minister." He gave the powers to bind and loosen to the apostles and they gave it to their successors, other people's rationalizations notwithstanding.

4,600 posted on 01/09/2007 9:15:43 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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