Jennifer you need only trust in God and believe in Jesus Christ. John 3:16
And everything he taught, right?
"if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector." --Jesus,
That's not going to work. It's just too simple. We need a never ending complicated system. ;-0
Trusting the Church IS trusting other Christians. DUH!
Jennifer you need only trust in God and believe in Jesus Christ.
Of course, you don't have to actually believe that anything Jesus said is the truth.
When he said, "This is my body," that isn't the truth. He only meant, "This is a reminder of my body."
When he said to his apostles, "Who hears you, hears me," that isn't the truth either, because what he really meant was, "read the book and pay attention to what you like, and that's good enough".
When he said, "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church," he was obviously just telling Peter how worthless he was, and so that verse has nothing to do with you, either, because "his church" is really "your church," wherever and whatever you want it to be.
When he said, "Whosoever sins you forgive, they are forgiven them; whosoever sins you hold bound, they are held bound," that's really code for, "you don't have to confess to any men, just tell God about it and it'll be cool."
And when he said, "You must be born from above by water and the Holy Spirit," he really meant, "you must answer an altar call and pray the 'sinner's prayer' and you'll be infallibly saved; any discussion of water here is merely a gynecology lesson."
See, you can "believe in Jesus" without believing anything Jesus said.
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“only trust in God and believe in Jesus Christ” per John 3:16? Only? That’s it? That’s all you need do???
What about John 6:53-58? Are you doing that between??
Or are you part of the John 6:60-66 crowd??
After all Sola Sciptura is sola scriptura - what about that scriptura?? Just Curious
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