Are you implying that the Companion Bible is that Bible or are you implying that I am a racist? Either way, you should be ashamed of yourself P-Marlowe. I can take dispute over scripture but I don't understand your apparent meanness of spirit.
If you would like to discuss the ideas and the scripture I have given I would love to discuss it with you. Except for what you see as an error, with "was" and "became", you haven't yet tried to disprove or agree with any of it. Why?
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The first is that Adam was the first to be ensouled. Other men existing on earth at that time were not specially created in that sense. They were just another kind of animal.
This is a highlight of Bullinger’s commentary [see: LiveJournal message board
It is also not an unusual belief. For instance, that Adam was the first ensouled man is also Catholic teaching accepting both special creation and evolution.
I also recall see it in some Jewish mysticism I’ve read along the way.
But racists wield this belief to mean that all but Adam (presumed to mean ‘white’) are inferior. Adamic man should not interbreed, yada yada.
The second is preterism – that prophesy was fulfilled in 70 A.D. and that Christians have replaced Israelis altogether in God’s promises.
Again there are a lot of Christians who believe in full or partial preterism or replacement theology and are not racists.
But racists wield this belief to mean that either the nation of Israel or the descendants of Isaac deserve no special respect from Christians – or, that the Jews are inferior and to be shunned, yada yada.
Of course, racism is not tolerated anywhere on this website (contrary to O’Reilly’s false accusations) – so I’m confident that any Freeper holding to Adamic man as first ensouled along with the replacement doctrine are under the watchful eye of the Religion Moderator just to be sure no white supremacists are trying to get a foothold here, e.g. "wolves in sheep's clothing."
The doctrines you are espousing on this thread and others are the same doctrines that are espoused by Christian Identity groups and cults like Watchman and Murray. They all use the Companion Bible in the same way Dispensationalists tend to use the Scofield Bible.
The doctine of Satan's seed leads to belief in racial superiority of the white race and the inferiority of other races. The doctrine of pre-existent spirits and the rewarding of the elect also leads to the idea that the White Race (particularly the Anglo Saxon race) are the elect of God.
I am not accusing you of being a racist, but the doctrines you espouse are touted by racist groups and the Bible you use is also touted by racist groups as the only true bible.
That should give you pause to think about the ramifications of these strange doctrines.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. (Hebrews 13:9 KJV)
Just look where these doctrines lead. Then, if you want to be a non-denominational Christian, get yourself attached to a more traditional non-Denominational Church. One that doesn't go off on these insane twisted doctrines that lead to no good.