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01/27/13 6:36 AM
Garee, Art is speaking of a movement that actually calls itself the "Emergent Church" What we should see is just WHAT this movement is emerging from
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Thanks Steel , so unlike the various new age movement they identify themselves as the emergent Church. If that is what you are saying, I agree.
It is emerging from CORRECT, TRUE doctrine, replacing it with the false doctrines of men, some old apostasy, and some new apostasy they invent along the way. OTOH, we believe, and KNOW, that the ONLY true doctrines of worship come from SCRIPTURE, and nothing else, including man's interps and "takes" of Scripture.
What is OTOH?I think most denominations would like to believe they have that kind of perfect authority as their guiding principle and if not look for another place of fellowship, or challenge a difference they might have, like as Luther did during the fifteenth century reformation.. But each denomination whether coming on the scene today or a thousand years ago do have a differences in the tenants and goals that give rise to their differences than the church down the street. In the end because we walk by faith its man’s interps in a living hope they are seeking God according to their takes on scripture, as their personal understanding between them and God, as two walking together. Or at least that is how I understand scripture teaches we can seek an understanding from God.
I see it sort of like their personal fingerprints, they might look alike but our agreement is not with each other in the end, because if it was we would seek the approval of men and not or God as He has so instructed us to begin with. And I believe each man will give an account of what they believe God has revealed as He teaches us, as to what they believe. Like with the apostle Peter, it’s not what do men say but how do we hear God, called the hearing of faith. And I believe it becomes whether or not a person adds or subtract from scripture through their interpretation of it. While adding or subtracting to scripture would take on what scripture calls “private interpretations” as to which direction they are loosed from. Where private interpretations as private revelations (new revelations) are not received from heaven they would be considered earthly of the devil as spoken of in James, seeing God is no longer brining new revelations, but would be ones that are inspired from earth, after men, which I believe scripture refers to as the “things of men” and not to be confused with the “things of God” found in the scripture alone which is sealed up until the end of time. Failure to try and try the spirits to see if they are of the things of God by trusting what we do believe as the things of men as trusting in men’s interps can be a stumbling block if we do not do as the Bereans search the scriptures daily to see if they are after God’s word, as the things of God.as God’s way of us staying in communication with Him first and then the denomination we shoes to fellowship with.
While the Catholic Church displays what they call “private revelations” boldly as if scripture was not complete, other denominations are more subtle in offering them through an interpretation, I believe.
I am not advocating the new emergent church which seems to lean more towards the Unitarian universal church that emerged in the late 18OO”s, which has also changed over the years like the Lutherans. Because that emerging church or the one that identifies themselves today as the emerging church there is great variety of styles as traditions of men and beliefs within the church itself, unity is also a problem on a larger scale for them that try an include the different traditions of men then maybe of a another kind of denomination that claims they are the unifying body as those who might restrict the tradition they have established, as after outward men walking by sight, and not after God’s word as to walk by faith.
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