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Hi JD
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I come from
a Baptist background and individual soul freedom is one of our
distinctive.
Love,
Caroline
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:01
AM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Narrow way not "
loving"?
Hang onto your faith in these matters,
Caroline. You could not be closer to the truth of the New Covenant
Realtionship than you are as expressed in the post below. May I
add two passages of scripture ? They will ones you are very familar with
but perhaps should be included in this discussion. I Cor 8:1-3 is
a passage that explains the critical contrast between a doctrinal
"knowing" and a relational knowing. It is sad that there are
those who claim to "know" but refuse to admit that they have not yet known as
they ought. The reason so many ignore this passage has much to do with
the realization that they are not in control. If you have a
relationship with the Master, a personal and vital
relationship, then I don't have much to say about it.
Actually, Romans 14:4 is a doctrinal statement that presses this individual
relationship to the Master and disembowels the Giant Turd* we call
Legalista. He no longer has rule over us. We
individually answer to God and He will make us to stand !!
A second
passage is the prophetic description (Jere 31:31-33) of the coming New
Covenant, describing that Covenent as a personal and individual positioning
complete with the realization that we will no longer have need of the kind of
teaching that is creedal and ex-cathedra in nature: ".....no more shall
every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying 'Know the
Lord' for they all shall know me ..." What so many do
not understand or refuse to understand, is that the Gospel has nothing to do
with the right church, the right creed, the right doctrine but everything to
do with loving God, loving self and loving those around us ( the
neighbor).
*turd : usually vulgar
: a contemptible person
JD
In a message dated
3/17/2005 5:36:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Yes, we all have the mind of Christ and so can make
judgments about all kinds of things but am not subject to man's judgment (1
Cor. 2:15-16). John wrote that the anointing I received from Jesus remains
in me and I do not need anyone to teach me. His anointing teaches me about
all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit, I should remain
in him. (1 John 2:27)
The Person I met and who spoke
to me (once audibly, many times through the bible and internally) has
revealed Himself as love and the fullness of God dwells in him and He is the
final revelation of God. God is Love. All our theology and thinking must
submit to a person who is real, alive, and can be encountered. Countless
others from simple nuns like Theresa of Avila to mathematicians like Pascal
and theologians like Bonhoeffer have encountered the Living God and came to
the same conclusion.
Love,
Caroline
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Deegan
To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:54 AM
Subject: Re:
[TruthTalk] Narrow way not " loving"?
The difference here is
between those that have been regenerated and those that have not. How does
one teach a dead man?
Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
David, you, Jt, and Kevin are all locked in a time capsule. You do most
of your thinking/citing/interpreting from within. It (the capsule) is
Greek in origin with some refurbishing done by the enlightenment
rationalists. I used to believe that the one who could/should extricate
himself from this static framework was David. I now see that it is 'Not
gonna happen' GBSr. As Mike Myers used to say after picking a topic, any
topic 'discuss amongst yourselves'
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