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2NCBrother
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You are absolutely correct in your assessment of UR. Unfortunately, there are numerous religions and churches that espouse false doctrines and few people, only a remnant actually, that take the time to rebuke and reprove these doctrines. As you pointed out:
2 Timothy 3:16-17
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man
of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
False doctrine has its roots in the earliest of churches in fact since the fall of the second faithful slave of Matthew 25 in 444 Tishri. This marked the end of water baptism before the 1440 years (i.e. 4 Prophetic times of Revelation 7 before 1884Tishri.) began. This was a result of the intense persecution of the True Christians by the Roman Catholics who were in power presumably since 67 Tishri when Paul was appointed over all of Jesus’ belongings when His second presence ended (i.e. after the resurrection).
Anyone who claims to be a Christian should heed Jesus’ advice and seek God with his whole heart, his whole soul and his whole mind and it should be done with a pure heart.
Jesus said in his sermon on the mount:
8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God (Matthew 5).
The pure in heart do not see God physically, because no man can see God and yet live. They see him with their minds, for he is one short step of reason away. But what does it mean to have a pure heart? Well everyone has impure thoughts, immoral thoughts, and hateful thoughts. And every man utters impure words, immoral words and hateful words. James tells us:
2 If anyone does not stumble in word, this one is a perfect man (James 3).
And there are no perfect men amongst the sons of Adam. So plainly a pure heart does not mean that we only think sinless thoughts. No, a pure heart is one that can divorce the truth from any preconceived personal consequences to our status that the truth may have. It is simply a true academic heart, an honest heart. If you are willing to admit you may be wrong about something even if it means losing your job or your status or even your own humility, you have a pure heart.
God has intentionally written the bible so that His enemies will find it boring and unproductive for learning. All of the praise in the bible is not because God has a big ego and needs a whole lot of it!! It is there merely to sort the sheep from the goats. He has given to everybody a book about his past dealings with his friends, who lived thousands of years ago, who had many camels and lived in tents and had children and basically did the sort of things that everybody else did back then.
This is of no great consequence to the enemies of God. It just looks like an out of date soap opera, written by someone who they do not like. Of what interest to a 20th or 21st century currency speculator is it that Esau lost his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup, or that he crossed the Jabbok with 200 female sheep and 20 rams? This sort of information is hardly the sort of thing that would come up on his Reuters screen.
But hidden in amongst all of the banal, mundane and everyday tribulations of these friends of God, is the whole of his military plan for saving mankind from sin and death and removing Satan as the God of this world. The plan for men to regain the birthright that Adam lost, namely everlasting human and angelic life as we will demonstrate for you.
22 He is revealing the deep things and the concealed things, knowing what is in the darkness; and with him the light does dwell (Daniel 2).
We are looking at the whole book as being effectively written by one person, because Paul tells us that it was:
16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness (2 Timothy 3).
And Peter tells us:
21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit (2 Peter 1).
So now that we know God was the writer of the bible where does this all lead us? What about these parables and illustrations? Solomon said:
2 The Glory of God is the keeping of a matter secret, and the glory of kings is the searching through a matter (Proverbs 25).
4 If you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it,
5 in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God (Proverbs 2).
So this knowledge is hidden. And it is hidden in the bible, for Paul says of Jesus:
3 Carefully concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge (Colossians 2).
Anyone who blindly follows any church doctrine without searching these matters out is not a Christian, but a Churchian!
Blessings,
Bill
2 Timothy 3:16-17
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man
of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
False doctrine has its roots in the earliest of churches in fact since the fall of the second faithful slave of Matthew 25 in 444 Tishri. This marked the end of water baptism before the 1440 years (i.e. 4 Prophetic times of Revelation 7 before 1884Tishri.) began. This was a result of the intense persecution of the True Christians by the Roman Catholics who were in power presumably since 67 Tishri when Paul was appointed over all of Jesus’ belongings when His second presence ended (i.e. after the resurrection).
Anyone who claims to be a Christian should heed Jesus’ advice and seek God with his whole heart, his whole soul and his whole mind and it should be done with a pure heart.
Jesus said in his sermon on the mount:
8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God (Matthew 5).
The pure in heart do not see God physically, because no man can see God and yet live. They see him with their minds, for he is one short step of reason away. But what does it mean to have a pure heart? Well everyone has impure thoughts, immoral thoughts, and hateful thoughts. And every man utters impure words, immoral words and hateful words. James tells us:
2 If anyone does not stumble in word, this one is a perfect man (James 3).
And there are no perfect men amongst the sons of Adam. So plainly a pure heart does not mean that we only think sinless thoughts. No, a pure heart is one that can divorce the truth from any preconceived personal consequences to our status that the truth may have. It is simply a true academic heart, an honest heart. If you are willing to admit you may be wrong about something even if it means losing your job or your status or even your own humility, you have a pure heart.
God has intentionally written the bible so that His enemies will find it boring and unproductive for learning. All of the praise in the bible is not because God has a big ego and needs a whole lot of it!! It is there merely to sort the sheep from the goats. He has given to everybody a book about his past dealings with his friends, who lived thousands of years ago, who had many camels and lived in tents and had children and basically did the sort of things that everybody else did back then.
This is of no great consequence to the enemies of God. It just looks like an out of date soap opera, written by someone who they do not like. Of what interest to a 20th or 21st century currency speculator is it that Esau lost his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup, or that he crossed the Jabbok with 200 female sheep and 20 rams? This sort of information is hardly the sort of thing that would come up on his Reuters screen.
But hidden in amongst all of the banal, mundane and everyday tribulations of these friends of God, is the whole of his military plan for saving mankind from sin and death and removing Satan as the God of this world. The plan for men to regain the birthright that Adam lost, namely everlasting human and angelic life as we will demonstrate for you.
22 He is revealing the deep things and the concealed things, knowing what is in the darkness; and with him the light does dwell (Daniel 2).
We are looking at the whole book as being effectively written by one person, because Paul tells us that it was:
16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness (2 Timothy 3).
And Peter tells us:
21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit (2 Peter 1).
So now that we know God was the writer of the bible where does this all lead us? What about these parables and illustrations? Solomon said:
2 The Glory of God is the keeping of a matter secret, and the glory of kings is the searching through a matter (Proverbs 25).
4 If you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it,
5 in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God (Proverbs 2).
So this knowledge is hidden. And it is hidden in the bible, for Paul says of Jesus:
3 Carefully concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge (Colossians 2).
Anyone who blindly follows any church doctrine without searching these matters out is not a Christian, but a Churchian!
Blessings,
Bill