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To: D-fendr
It's woefully unworkable and impractical to check God's Word against any man's teachings? It's about comparing Scripture with Scripture and searching the Scriptures daily, to see if those things are so. What is so unworkable and impractical about that? Lazy not to do it, yes. Dangerous not to do it. Since it's your life that will be "defended" by you and not your church, when you stand before God. There won't be a Methodist tent set up, a Catholic tent, etc. for members to check into. It's one person at a time. Facing a Holy and Just Saviour with a wound in His side and a Book of Life in His hand.
897 posted on 11/28/2011 3:36:40 PM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: smvoice
What is so unworkable and impractical about that?

Look around. Take even one small branch of sola scriptura, Dispensationalism. You have one version of Dispensationalism, sola scriptura of course, calling another version of Dispensationalism, sola scriptura also, the work of Satan. Hardly a workable system for One Church.

It's one person at a time.

Each person alone as "church" would be inconceivable to the Apostles, early Christians, and those in the Church today.

Read, study, Christ's prayer in the garden.

We are not alone, we are part of One Body, we pray and help each other, as one, in the Communion of Saints with Christ as the head.

It is not just you and Holy Scriptures, this is not what Church is, not what Our Saviour intends and wishes for us. There is no need for you to be alone, tasked with deciding your own interpretation of Church Scriptures, your own religion, your own theology, soteriology, eschatology, etc. etc.

This is not the daunting task that the Christian faith puts upon its adherents. Christ established a Church, gave it authority and guidance. For all who follow Him and share the same belief to be together as one, as He prayed in the garden.

To remain alone and outside, tasked to figure out your own religion, is a sad and needless choice.

902 posted on 11/28/2011 3:51:13 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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