Can someone give an example of "variance,"
Paul advises against variance.
and Jesus promised same:
Matthew 10:35
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Both Jesus and Paul however are speaking in ONE accord...yet the understandings of these SURFACE conflicts can NOT be deciphered without and apart from proper understandings.
We would all do ourselves well to know that God deals with EVIL in HEART differently than with GOOD, especially in believers.
The E.O. and the R.C.C. split and have been split for hundreds of years and called each others heretics bound for eternal torture in fire over...THREE WORDS... of the filioque added by the RCC which in their minds indicated 'double procession' of the Holy Spirit from not only The Father....but added
"AND THE SON"
To me it is really quite a petty and pathetic demonstration of VARIANCE and how far believers can slide down the scale of condemnations toward each others. I doubt they will EVER sort it out til Jesus Himself says ENOUGH.
I personally have witnessed groups of believing people openly dividing over SINGLE WORDS...TENSES...TRANSLATION VARIANCES...pronounciations.
Even in the simplest of words like ALL. And in the histories of the various churches, I'm sure some bodies some where divided over as little as a single letter, an apostrophe perhaps? A jot? A tittle?
Anything and any cause can send believers TUMBLING into self justifications and condemnations toward their fellow believers in their causes to be ABSOLUTELY RIGHT and make the other people ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
a dire and dark working...of the heart. Many have gone into the captivity of condemnation over these things.
May all such workings remain in the dust bin of evil history in dead mens bodies where they belong. And pity to the hearts of any foolish enough to get caught in these traps.
Such workings are TRULY craziness in actions. And PRIDE trumpets ALL such separations, demanding others to BOW DOWN or BURN ALIVE FOREVER.
Were there evidence of EVIL MEGALOMANIA in believers, such is the case openly and constantly demonstrated.
Personally, I see it is possible that at the end, every man can be utterly divided from every man, just as the scriptures have foretold:
Ezekiel 38:21
And I will call for a
sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD:
every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Haggai 2:22
And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down,
every one by the sword of his brother.
Jeremiah 34:17
Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour:
behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
And some will be led to watch...and to avoid such workings for the plague, famine and sword that it is.
"And Jesus said unto his disciples, "Whom do men say that I am?" And His disciples answered unto Him, "Master, thou art the supreme eschatological manifestation of omnipotent ecclesiastical authority, the absolute, divine, sacerdotal monarch."
"And Jesus said, "What!?"
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