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To: Forest Keeper; Alex Murphy; kosta50; Dr. Eckleburg; Mad Dawg
“”Nope, I have no need to claim superiority. However, the Apostolic Church DOES claim superiority.””

Dear Brother,you claim superiority without even realizing that every time you elevate what you think your own mind guides you to convince yourself that God gave you special authority make up His church in your own mind based upon your privite interpretations of Scripture.

You have convinced yourself that your personal interpretations of scripture is Holy Spirit guiding you to do so.

This is the the divinization of the mind that leads you to do this.

This personal (do it my way) spirit of protestantism proves to be founded upon the divinization of the mind because the reformers were never united of one mind with themselves and were divided against whatever makes up solo Scripture from the onset.

The reality of it all is that the authority of solo Scripture is NOT Scripture only!

It is Scripture plus the authority of whatever the human mind wants to believe what the Scriptures to mean according to the rules of themselves and the lifestyle they want to live.

This is why you have so many divisions and constant divided ever growing communities of protestantism in its short history

3,574 posted on 03/06/2008 9:34:18 PM PST by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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To: stfassisi
You have convinced yourself..

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal. Reading minds is "making it personal."
3,575 posted on 03/06/2008 9:37:05 PM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: stfassisi; Alex Murphy; kosta50; Dr. Eckleburg; Mad Dawg
FK: “”Nope, I have no need to claim superiority. However, the Apostolic Church DOES claim superiority.””

Dear Brother,you claim superiority without even realizing that every time you elevate what you think your own mind guides you to convince yourself that God gave you special authority make up His church in your own mind based upon your private interpretations of Scripture.

STF, every side believes it follows the MOST correct interpretation. Nothing surprising about that. The difference I am noting is that the Apostolic Church claims its interpretation is INFALLIBLE. And any who disagree are "officially" declared to be all sorts of terrible things. That is a true claim of superiority.

3,894 posted on 03/11/2008 11:56:12 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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