Heresy

[elijah23]

Dear, in Galatian 1:8 Paul called heretic to damnation every one who teach a different gospell that he never taught, most of the readers of any VERSION of the bible like to ignore that damnation, which is repeated twice:

A VERSION MEANS THAT IS DIFFERENT TO ITS SOURCE

Heresy exists, but we shouldn't call people heretics simply because we're mad at them. There are many honest differences of opinion. There is a difference between a person who believes wrongly and a person who is spreading a false gospel for self-serving reasons.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Originally Posted by Jethro Bodine:
I wouldn't try it because I agree that most Christians would attend a traditional mainline church over a non-denominational but entirely Biblical meeting of the saints that actually accomplished what God intended for his people when they meet together (most mainline churches do not do that). Simply because the traditions of how the body of Christ goes to church are so thoroughly entrenched in the body of Christ that most Christians do not know what a truly Biblical meeting of the saints looks like and accomplishes that they would be able to recognize it and appreciate it when they saw it.

Well, this presumes that none are "doing church" correctly. It could be that one or more denominations have it more-or-less right. Or that several together are 'accomplishing what God intended.'

Actually what is happening is, Churches that have more than just a traditional Sunday service, but also have small groups meeting, and open Bible studies are in the end, perhaps, coming the closest to accomplishing all that God intended to be accomplished when the saints meet together. They just spread it over more than one meeting (very impractical, IMO, and lessens the effectiveness).

But still, as long as the traditional Sunday service is mistakenly seen as the epitome of what it means to meet together as the Church and please God and fulfill God's purposes for meeting we will essentially continue to miss all that God can and wants to do among us and make us into what we so long to made into.

IMO, non-denom's come the closest to laying aside accepted tradition and opening up church meetings into more of what God intended them to be so that we can become the effective and productive people of God we want to be.