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Date Posted：07/10/2012 4:45 AMCopy HTML Good afternoon, all.
Our vicar preached on Mark chapter seven today, and as he did so I was again reminded of Revivalism's legalistic approach regarding externals. As we know Longfieldians make a habit of rejecting people with habits! Well, several rather specific habits at any rate. If someone smokes, for example, they are given a set period of time in which to get the victory. Should the supposed victory be unduly elusive, then s/he will eventually get the boot instead! When he was confronted by the religious challenging his failure to enforce a rigid, 'traditional' conformity regarding outwards purity, Jesus responded: “Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” (Mark 7:14b-17, ESV) In other words what one consumes isn't really the most important issue, whether it be food, drink, or tobacco. To Jesus defilement resulted from what was expelled from the heart (see 7:20-23), and not what was expelled from the lungs, the kidneys or the bowels ;) Something to ponder. Blessings, Ian email: didaktikon@gmail.com
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：04/05/2017 4:35 PMCopy HTML When he was confronted by the religious challenging his failure to enforce a rigid, 'traditional' conformity regarding outwards purity, Jesus responded: “Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” (Mark 7:14b-17, ESV)
That's sounds fine with what we consume, but what about consuming the idiot box, or the images from porn, those images will not affect me, if I take what Jesus said it's not what goes in but what comes out, then it is all right to watch porn, if I don't lust after it, or speak of it, I believe what goes into ones mind, shapes ones thoughts. Was jesus only referring to food drink here?. not audio visual content, I say to you christians who go home after church and turns on the telly, is not a TV show with violence or any form of sexual innuendo changing your views, There is a good story I read called Hellavision/What do professed Christians think about in the darkness of their imaginations? What do they watch on hell-I-vision and unholy-wood? What do they listen to when no one is around? Could their intercourse with the world affect their ability to overcome sin? Could it hinder their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ? James 4:4, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Verse 32 is the clencher for the professed Christian that enjoys watching such things-- Who KNOWING the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO THEM. Watching/reading/listening to these things is having pleasure in them that do them. The bottom line is that when we participate as willing observers we are having pleasure in sinners who are sinning.No Christian should be sitting around watching hellivision and no Christian should go to the movie theatre. Those are the devil's domains. Would a pastor of a church be direct enough to give a sermon like this, certainly Highway to heaven was a nice show, The brady Bunch, others as such, but what about all the days of Our Lives , Neighbours, Swartnegger movies, it thrives on sexual exploits, would it be fair to ask the church to expand their minds and teach christians, some shows, all most all, just don't cut it with Jesus theology of bringing forth the fruits of the spirit, I believe a percentage would feel insulted if they were asked not to watch such shows, Do we all need retraining?? The following is taken from, Entertainment Standards By Douglas Wilson-- Suppose, one afternoon, one of your neighbors came to your door and said something like this. "Mary and I would like to invite you over this evening..." "Why, thank you!" you say, innocently enough. "Wait, wait, that's not all. We would like to invite you to come into our bedroom and watch us while we have [relations]. It would be a really exciting time for all of us." You recoil in horror. "Jane and I couldn't do that. You see, we're Christians." "Oh, I see," he says, scratching his head. "That could be a little much. I'll tell you what! We have a video camera. Why don't you let us tape our[selves], and I'll just bring it over in the morning. You could then watch whenever you wanted." You explain that this wouldn't be possible either. "I don't understand," he says, with a puzzled look. "Last week you invited us over and we all watched that movie on your VCR. It had a couple of really good bedroom scenes in it. Why are you willing to watch another's man wife, but not mine? Mary may not be the best looking..." It is at this point that you interrupt and explain that Mary's looks have nothing to do with it. You go on to explain that you are not ordinary Christians. You belong to that special breed called - hypocrites. Now that would be a real stunner of a sermon to have, The pastor gets several members engaged into the discussion, and says by the way it applies to you all, That might be to blunt for todays christians to accept, or may be not, but are Christians to correct their fellow member if they see a fault in them, bring them around to a way of thinking that produces a clean mind, I say yes to more sermons like this. My personal TV viewing is about 4 hours a week, news, and some old good value serials, I have yet to go around to a fellow christian home and not see the TV on. how about after a mid week house meeting, a % of meetings flick the TV on, after the house meeting. We should be told off more of the every day things in life that christians accept, but could lead us astray, Punk music, the lyrics of so many songs the young one listen to, but don't dare correct them, they will grow out of it, For me there is still a long way for christians to go to get closer to Jesus, I am still learning and mellowing, Well brother Bill if we are going to watch TV this Saturday night for fellowship dinner can we make it a Highway to heaven show, No brother Ned we want to watch Big Arnie's new movie Aftermath where he kills a dude that was controlling aircraft and caused a plane to crash, Arni gets revenge. OK brother Bill I will not be able to make it for dinner. Sundays report on meetings from the Pastor, There was a good night to be had at brother Bills house last night for those 15 who turned up for fellow ship well done, many prayers were giver for the sick who wrote in, As well as a good talk by Brother Bill on the daily sins that affect christians in every day life, those who wish to go to next months dinner see brother Bill. I take it all in, select out what seems acceptable to most christians and ask God the same thing all these years, Lord show me the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, keep out the trash rubbish and garbage, and give me strength to forgive. I believe God put me in the RCI for a reason, all those years ago, to help me find the truth, moved me on to better worship and understanding the Gospel, through other churches Neddles Godspeed Apprentice Spirit searcher
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：06/05/2017 1:47 AMCopy HTML Hi, Neddles.
What you've written sounds pretty much like legalism to me. Blessings, Ian email: didaktikon@gmail.com
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：07/05/2017 4:59 PMCopy HTML legalism would be judging or make a decree such as Thou shall not, or thou shall do, then the church makes a judgement, as per your example smoking.
Is is not in the interest of the church community to preach what could happen? to a christian if they follow the path of say heavy metal curse words songs, If a christian follows in the lord and exhibits a clean life and shows the fruits of the spirits, buts listens to the vulgar heavy metal music, then he could be congratulated for never letting the music change his speech, but then there could be a soul in the lord who has less will power and may well start to imulate the curse words, Like drinking, RCI said no drinking, I remember some being put out for alcohol use, I find nothing wrong with drink, I would have a nip or 2 a week, some times several weeks go past with out a drink, But I would never drink in front of anyone from church who might visit my home, less they could be a past alcoholic, or the general public work friends, I never offer strong drink. As in the case of hellavission story above, does a church brother who sees another brother watching all these movies of violence not intervene and suggest that, consuming such things may influence there thoughts or speech, would Jesus watch that with you, maybe he would to convert you, but to watch on a daily basis, I think we have a duty to our fellow christian to advise them or correct them, if indulgence in this world is taking them away from the lord's work I personally like the Hellavision story, and makes for a good short talk in house meetings, the idea is it will get the those present, to think is it affecting me, or does it just go in one ear and out the other, My belief is such things slowly wear away at our thoughts and can affect our walk in the lord, same with smoking, we are a temple, keep it clean, so when a christian smokes, I think he should be corrected to look forward to the coming Christ, and is that the way to treat his body with toxic pollution, I agree that no time frame is required, if we did then we would be putting then under the law, which we are not. This is because the weak, immature Christian
always wants somebody to put him under law, but if you put a Christian under
law, then he is no longer under grace! And Paul knows that Christians must
learn to deal with what he calls "the law of liberty." The old covenant law was external—written on stone. The new covenant law
is internal—written on our hearts. The new covenant Lawgiver is present in our
hearts by the Holy Spirit. Neddles remote outback
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：08/05/2017 9:46 AMCopy HTML Neddles,
It's the prerogative of the church corporately to exercise judgment respecting a believer's behaviour when Scripture is silent on a particular matter, it's not your job individually and neither is it mine. And external practices you may believe important discriminators might be considered trivial or inconsequential by mature and knowledgeable Christians, your issue with smoking for example. Finally, given the position you've espoused in two posts now, I harbor no doubts you're unaware the Apostle Paul used vulgar expressions in his letters that probably would've caused many a fragile Christian matron to blush! Are you more spiritually-minded than he? In closing, if cinematic violence and occasional course language is sufficient to cause someone to stumble, then such a one would've been shocked positively senseless by the everyday culture of the first century Roman world! My advice to you? Go back and review the very point Jesus was seeking to get across in my earlier quoting of the Gospel According to Mark 7:14b-17. Blessings, Ian email: didaktikon@gmail.com
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：10/05/2017 3:23 PMCopy HTML Legalism, A long way to get to understanding that concept, 30 years and still learning, Just read Sabbath of Christ, ex pastor from SDA wrote about what day is the sabbath, short answer every day is a day of rest in the lord, and goes into great detail from bible to prove his point that Seventh Day church have it wrong, gave me clear and better understanding of what the Sabbath was and now is, but in his book he writes, can a person murder. rape, do drugs, show me where it is written in today's law that you can not or don't do these things, you can do these things, it is expected that a moral person of today understands this, so there is nothing to stop a christian doing these things, the law of the land only states If you do these things this is the penalty---------, there is no law that states do not murder, but in christ what commandments he gave were or should have been standard moral understanding of life, so some hard laws under the OT were written, with the do not do or else, so jesus fore filled the OT law and now were have, treat you neighbour (other persons) as you would have them treat you, some common sense, if you see a sin in some one , then he who has not sinned can judge them, other wise show then the error of their way, that as spirit filled christian you need to follow what jesus said did and walked in every day life.
Your writing of Legalism in past post, and reading Sabbath in christ, joined the dots together, there should be no rules, law written by a church in reference to a christian life, like RCI if you have sex out side marriage your out, rather than they or any church should be saying lets us look at scripture, and correct your walk if you want eternal life, sex out side marriage defiles the temple in you lets work out if you want to walk towards eternal life in Christ. I look back at all the churches I been to over the years, due to my work as a contractor travelling from job to job, some of the strange things i've seen and thought there a strange mob, Kalgoolie there was a church that for some reason had 50 + flags at the front of the church, when the hymns started people went up and grab a flag on a stick and waved it in the air, flags of the world, asked what the flag waving was for, support other countries as we have a big multinational group here, some one brought a flag from Africa where they came from and put it in the corner with the Aussie flag, some years later we have 50 +. I thought it strange at the time, nothing to do with the bible, other than some people thought it gives support to all the different cultures that are present in the church, Now I look back how I judged them, SAD, a bit like some churches like hands raising, one church during songs would all ways say raise your hands to God, felt like a bit of a fool putting my hands in the air, but hey, it was the only church in town, again I look back and think, nothing in the bible says don't raise hands. A lesson learnt, some time learning it, but now I can look forward to not judging, but if need be from commandments correct a wayward person, after 2 -3 witness if they fail to hear, dust off the effort and let them be, rather than trying to find scripture to condemn them. How a single word from you and a book opened my eyes. Neddles Godspeed Apprentice Spirit searcher
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：11/05/2017 7:34 AMCopy HTML Some advance on a thought, is defilement a method way that can be brought about by visual appearance, If it is not what you take in both internal and through the mind by seeing, then the way a Priest Pastor dresses will not affect the outcome what they preach. But humans judge by the way a person dresses, the Roman Church likes to dress its servants in some pretty colourful outfits, wear collar backwards, caps for the pope, legalism by the church telling the priest to wear, but when asking the local roman servant does he feel it a need to wear a dress costume to preach, he says no I don't need it, but the local who attend the church like to see me wear the outfit, they feel some respect when the priest attends the footy match, for all to see me in the religious outfit, as well it helps others to identify me as a man of the cloth, so much ado on match day, many a visiting team members see me dressed as such and I get people coming up to me with life questions, if I was dressed as everyone does, then how do people come up to me, a shy person may not ask a stranger, where is the local Priest, so with out my collar, i would just blend in, and miss a lot of opportunities to talk to troubled souls. That was a good point, witnessing by default, they come to you, so is it a legalism to say, ! But christ never wore distinctive clothes or collar, he just used healings. your wrong to do so, So I keep quite and play along with the local priest.
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：12/05/2017 11:19 AMCopy HTML Neddles,
If anyone is worried about a priest wearing vestments, then s/he is worrying over trifling cultural matters of no spiritual consequence whatsoever. It might help to think of it this way: there are occasions when it's valid for me to wear a doctoral gown and bonnet. There are occasions when it's valid for me to wear a business suit. And there are occasions when it's valid for me to wear 'boardies' and thongs. It's the context of each occasion that determines the validity or otherwise of what it is I wear. Similarly, in the more liturgical communions of the Christian Church the wearing of vestments by clergy is perfectly valid in the context of a church service, or the delivery of a sacrament. Blessings, Ian email: didaktikon@gmail.com
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：14/05/2017 4:14 AMCopy HTML Ian, I was extremely bigoted toward the wearing of investments in churches today. This I realize it just came from Revivalist thinking and is trivial. Much more important matters to focus on. My minister explained it comes over from OT teaching and is mainly church tradition and identifies the position of office within. Ralph. I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S.Lewis.
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：15/05/2017 4:02 PMCopy HTML I've always had a hard time thinking, How can you (Priest) wear such things and make you look and act holy, gives a false show to followers, then there is all the other paraphernalia stations of the cross, blessing one self, sprinkling, Etc, big time events in the Philippines. Sprinkling baptisms, statues, gold chalice the list goes on, seems to me once you start one ritual others follow, the more rituals the more it takes away from the teachings, I must think , They have their reward in, out ward presentations.
SO I always get caught out when I see such people, the way I think, Praise the lord I say to my self, don't judge, forgive me Jesus I just failed again, I must improve, those people who dress like that, in some way are still passing on some of jesus ways to those who listen, Like the Local Priest said, They come to me when they see the collar, might not agree with that or his church doctrine, but there are some basic love the RC church gives out. let them be. So now the question is, will I play along with the only church in town, as it was the church who made the mission back 80 years ago. I have been thinking about putting out some leaflets for a local house meeting, bible study basic, as my job I get to meet every one in town thats Wadeye, a vile revengeful place, plenty riots, tribe squabbles, social problems hatred, just the usual Indigenous community I go to after they settle down to rebuild, been doing it 30+ years, just take it in my stride, seen it all before, petrol sniffing, bashing old grandmothers with fence paling, open fist fights in the street, drugs, smelly people, mind boggling for someone new to the experience, praise God keep me alive this long, been 2 years since first was coming here, was put off twice due to violence, now things are ripe, government money rebuilding, so they asked me to come out, as a specialist Indigenous Trainer builder, Get that feeling I should start a meeting group up, probable during the week Friday night, Learning this new Legalism, by trying not to down grade the local RC church, or what others or doing, or judging who bashed who, and who dresses wrong, Must think forgiveness, and no judging, accept all. As I don't have a regular church home church, closest home church would be a group near my home base Ipswich, last time there was 2 years ago, so I move around with work, never been able to stay in one place long enough, plenty prayer asking for a steady job, but when ones job is complete into the next one, from 6 to 18 months most last. What advice can the this board give to a fellow traveller christian, wanting to start up a house meeting, every community I have been in before has had several church groups in town, very strange the largest community in NT has only one church with 2500 population. Worrabinda has population of 500+ and had several churches, some churches visit once a month from the larger towns and bring out their followers, some every 2 weeks, during the off week there would be house meetings, but this new place has just one, no one has come from any other churches to start up a new group, there are a few from Darwin who come for outreach, fishing trip a few times a year, that's real fishing barra and do some church service or put on nights entertainment, got me stumped why only RC are based here, either way Uncle Neddles is getting itchy feet and needs more in my life. its eat sleep and work here, some other bible needs wanted. The hairs on the neck stand up when in a RC church, I was brought up as RC, Open for suggestions, what would be a good opening talk? what heading to put on the leaflet drop??? An alternative to stopping suicide, in your community, (Indigenous communities have twice the death rate of standard Australia) or Living Working and Surviving in Indigenous communities for 40 years from a white fella, Bringing peace to you and your family, Forgiving your neighbour is from God. Any help would be thankful. Plenty time to talk to my self here, time for prayer and ask directions. Neddles Godspeed Apprentice Spirit searcher
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：16/05/2017 9:12 AMCopy HTML So not a good idea to have a bible chat group in the community, 1 against.
I did start a small bible talk group up in a community Indigenous back in 2002, it was aimed at the kids, I started to walk around town with a wheelie bin after work and pick up all the rubbish in the street, about 3 k of road, so I would do a bit every day, some kids joined me to help out, they got rewarded with a ride out of town to the tip, to them the 3 k trip was fun, then I gave them some food, soon word got around and every afternoon the kids got more involved, with more kids helping, got about 25 on average, so invited an adult Indigenous to help supervise, 5 kids would sit in the back of the truck 1 in the front plus the Adult, for the drive to the tip every day, never got out of first gear about 20k/per hour, then on Saturday the kids who help out the most would get to go to the Black Boy camp, about 20K out of town and hunt for Porkipines, and pick up fire wood, when we came back we would boil up potatoes with bread and butter, by now I had 2 adults helping out, So I got use of the local hall and the kitchen on Saturday afternoon after the Black Boy run with the kids and adults and started to say a prayer before having the snack, soon other mums and dad started to come along after the rubbish cleanup and tip trips, they just loved the Great stories of the bible, raising from the dead, Samson, we had a TV in the hall got some bible movies, Saturday tip run turned into a chat study about the bible, got the kids entertained, spoke about why its not ok to fight, bully other kids, 3 months later we had 15 adults 20+ kids coming to the hall for several hours, We were 3 hours from Rocky, and a local church there asked if the could come out, they read about my afternoons in the local paper, so the Pastor and friends would come out every second Saturday for the fun games bible chat stay the night and stay for a Sunday morning service, then head back to rocky, but that community was reasonable quite, compared to the current one I am in, and closed to a major city. Any advice is most welcome, wait and see what happens I suppose, I hate a dirty town so I'll be doing the same thing talking to the locals with wheelie bin in hand after work picking up rubbish and see what comes about, Outreach by Stealth, sooner or later usually the woman are the most friendly to a Whitey, they say I am not well or we need more rooms, the toilet needs fixing, I can help out with maintenance, and with your illness can I have a prayer for you, I am no great evangelist, preacher or talker, but should we not pass on the word in our daily lives, some churches do have regular weekly outreaches, I never been go at starting a conversation up cold turkey about God, but I am good at civil housing construction, walking the street saying hello in a casual manner to find what needs to be done, rather than call a community meeting to express their troubles, improvements they want done. Whats right or wrong with the method??, is there a legalism I am applying that I should not be doing in my thinking?? Neddles
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：20/05/2017 4:12 AMCopy HTML Neddles,
My advice to you would be this: based on what you've shared thus far, you're probably not adequately prepared or equipped to take on the responsibility of teaching others in a small group yet. I reckon you'd be better served joining a local Christian church and committing yourself to it first, in lockstep with continuing your current ministry of practical help and engagement within the community. When all is said and done, there are no valid reasons, and no valid excuses, for a Christian not being discipled in a local church. Blessings, Ian email: didaktikon@gmail.com
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：24/05/2017 2:58 PMCopy HTML Thanks Ian
Only Church in town is Roman Catholic, next town is 300k away dirt road about 6-7 hours drive. So I was looking to do a Fri-Sat evening Talk/ chat/ asking are they Baptised/ do they want to be saved/ do they find it hard to not want to get revenge on their neighbour/ why they want revenge or hate their neighbour, do they believe God can help, Once I get to that stage, I can proceed further with whos interested in doing some bible study working through scripture to help them decide is Gods way the best way for keeping peace, Starts off more like a mediation process. Yuendumu community 6 years ago, same problem with fights, hatred, took 2 years for the town to come to agreement, lots of Social workers Elders many meetings to get to a decision to stop the violence, in the mean time, some 12 local christians meet weekly for a service in a private house, I got invited in, got asked to do some easy understandably talks on forgivness, most of which I found on the net and took notes and gave scripture quotes, English is their second language, you may remember Ally Waria from Brisbane, she came out here, small world, All I can do is see wait and find my place, if there is one in this Indigenous community, let the spirit lead me as God wills. Here is one of many vid of street fights in town, there's a whole FB page of fights 100s, this one is not that violent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGIubtqroNc Thanks for the chat Godspeed Neddles Godspeed Apprentice Spirit searcher
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：26/05/2017 2:15 PMCopy HTML Neddles,
So I was looking to do a Fri-Sat evening Talk/ chat/ asking are they Baptised/ do they want to be saved/.......... I'm curious to know how you would answer those, if they wanted to know, "how to be saved" and what from?
Ralph.
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S.Lewis.
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：19/06/2017 10:38 AMCopy HTML Salvation is simply a processof confessing and believing, that Jesus died and rose again for our sins, tomake way for acceptance by the father we are worthy, before this nothing we didwould be acceptable to enter eternal rest. A man must confess that Jesus isLord, which signifies his realization that Christ must have full rule over hislife with all His righteous requirements, from his we show outward belief bybeing baptised into the corporate Christian church.
Saved from what, for mesaved from the evil of this world mankind and his crimes and thoughts againstGod, then to produce the fruits of the spirit as evidence you are followingJesus way. Godspeed Apprentice Spirit searcher
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：19/06/2017 11:58 PMCopy HTML Copy and paste from "Got any questions.org", https://www.gotquestions.org/fruit-of-the-Holy-Spirit.html may be helpful.-
Question: "What is the fruit
of the Holy Spirit?" More on Spiritual gifts.- https://www.gotquestions.org/QOTW.htm I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S.Lewis.
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：23/06/2017 3:11 PMCopy HTML I never stop wondering why RCI and others put people out for just fornication, in the above post there are many sins against defilement, yet they just put their hand into the sin bin and only pull out Sex sins, I never understand why they think sex sins are the sin they must put people out, a strange legalism in their brain that a sex sin is unforgiven, they show little fruits of the spirit in Love forgiveness.
Iv moved on, Its nice to keep the seat warm, on sundays, with the only church around for 300 k, even though he's a Roman Catholic priest, the word could come from any pastor, in most of his sermons, he's not against full water baptism if people want it, but he never ask them if they want it, and for the babies, is just get them wet, then later when they have the understanding, they can go for the full dip. There are a few people here all indigenous who said they would like to meet for a house bible reading and explaining of the text, like why full baptism is needed, might scan the net and get some good points and scripture, slow and easy. Godspeed Apprentice Spirit searcher
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Re：On purity, defilement and legalism Date Posted：24/06/2017 5:44 AMCopy HTML Zamoz,
'Sex sins' etc is no different from any form of sin, save the sin of blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, is forgivable. However, in the New Testament, Jesus puts a lot of emphasis on the particular subject, specifically when it comes to marriage relationships etc. The Church's role is to support and guide those, that may have fallen to temptation and repented, back to redemption in Christ. Accolades for attending the local church. Baptism is not a requirement but an act of faith. Read- http://forum1.aimoo.com/revival/Please-Consider-An-examination-of-Revivalist-teachings-and-doctrines/Baptism-1-1020829.html Ralph I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S.Lewis.
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