13 Jan 18
Originally posted by @sonshipYou are wrongly equating the early church led by Paul and the Apostles with the church of today.So there is membership that can be taken away.
A backslidden Christian or a Christian who is being asked to not come to meetings is still a member of the Body of Christ.
Do you disagree ?
Isn't that why Paul said to admonish him as a brother?
He is under discipline but he is still a Christian brother.
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What about not ...[text shortened]... But that one is still a member of the Lord's Body and still a "member" of the universal church.
Being expelled from that early church meant something. Today being expelled from a church means nothing
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13 Jan 18
Elader, do you feel generally that the Salem Witch Trials of the Pilgrims was an exemplary portion of the history of the Christian church?
Should Christians exalt that time when some alleged witches were burnt to death by the Christian community, as the standard of Christian orthodoxy in the past?
13 Jan 18
Originally posted by @sonshipOf course not. They decided to act as if they lived during the time of the old covenant. Let the witches be judged by God.
Elader, do you feel generally that the Salem Witch Trials of the Pilgrims was an exemplary portion of the history of the Christian church?
Should Christians exalt that time when some alleged witches were burnt to death by the Christian community, as the standard of Christian orthodoxy in the past?
Shun them. Identify them as sinners not to be allowed in the church community. If they claim to be Christian do not have anything to do with them other than to combat their sinfulness should they go public.
But you do not kill them.
13 Jan 18
Originally posted by @sonshipSo do you deny that the Christian response for those who can work but choose not to do so is to not give them food? Do you deny God's truth clearly stated in the Bible?
Elader, when you read of the fall of man in Genesis do you think of the two trees there as -
the tree of conservatism verses the tree of liberalism?
Is that the basic dichotomy that is going on in the universe?
13 Jan 18
Originally posted by @eladar"If your enemy hungers, give him food to eat; and if he thirsts, give him water to drink." (Proverbs 25:21)
So do you deny that the Christian response for those who can work but choose not to do so is to not give them food? Do you deny God's truth clearly stated in the Bible?
Would you treat the procrastinator worse than your enemy?
Do 'you' deny God's truth clearly stated in the Bible?
13 Jan 18
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeWhy would an enemy know better? The instruction is for correction.
"If your enemy hungers, give him food to eat; and if he thirsts, give him water to drink." (Proverbs 25:21)
Would you treat the procrastinator worse than your enemy?
Do 'you' deny God's truth clearly stated in the Bible?