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A musing on unity... Everyone that's got a few weddings under their belt can basically recite 1 Corinthians 13 "Love is patient..."
Immediately preceding it at the end of Ch 12 is the context and the problem in the church of Corinth to be solved "All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they? All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? But earnestly desire the greater gifts."
Paul speaks of the different parts of the body of Christ and how it is Christ that placed them where they are, with their purpose and their gifts. The primary reason for splintering in church bodies is self-worship. Believing all others should believe and behave as you do. Now, I'm not saying WHAT to believe, but how to believe.
In Jesus ministry, he upheld traditions of man (he teaches in the synagogue and synagogue isn't in the Old testament) and he also rebukes traditions of man (he rebukes Pharisees for complaining that He and the apostles are eating and healing on the Sabbath).
1 Corinthians 12 and 13 makes me wonder how much latitude God is okay with between the denominations. A teacher is going to be attracted to a different denomination because he has gifts to be leveraged there, a healer would go to a denomination that has healing ministries and prioritizes that, a speaker of tongues, another. If an eye looks across the body of Christ and is mad at an ear for not being an eye, is that right?
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Tenacity, thats yer gift. 🥂
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As far as the gifts go, I think pentecostals and the like for us waaaaay to much on them. You either have the a gift or you don't. Pray earnestly for gifts but you will likely never be given them all. Heck idk what gifts, if any, I have. Just serve the Lord people.
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Jesus said he came to create division as well. I guess one could argue about that is just between believers and unbelievers.
I guess I would ask why would God expect me to yolk up to the Catholic, Lutheran, southern Baptist, pentecostal, charismatic, et al churches? In a lot of cases they teach a large amount of absolutely horrible doctrines.
I do believe he will divide truth from error and will keep His flock from corruption.
Dig deep enough down and you will find a lot of these denominations profess to serve Jesus, but the Jesus they serve is not the same one that is in the Bible. They have allowed leaven into the flour, so to speak. Heaping teachers to themselves to tickle their ears they have the form of godliness when they cry out "Lord Lord" yet their words are hollow and deny the very precepts of Christ's teachings.
It's one thing to say "you shouldn't eat meat" versus "faggots are loved by Jesus and if he were here today he would be trans". One I can disagree with and not care about one way or the other, the other is outright blasphemy.
Let me temper that with saying that you can find actual followers in some of the various denominations, sure. My criticism is for the denos as a whole (institution).
Anyway that's why I vehemently refuse the "unity" doctrine being pushed by multiple denominations. Eventually I think alot of them will merge, and whatever beast comes from that will be awful.
I will fellowship with people like you, Tyler and xeno, cow, etc. who despite some differences can generally agree on basic teachings like "faggots bad"
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Its awesome.
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Not sure if that is a good or bad thing. I'll take it though.🍻
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