Little Men Love to Belong to "Clubs" makes them feel better and special over the "common" believers. Pharisee club, Calvinists club and etc. Satan plays with and deceives them. Beware!!
Little Men Love to Belong to "Clubs".
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Lifelong_sinner
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Hidden In Him
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Little squirrels then.
Come on, GISMYS. LoL. Don't start a thread with an insult in the title.
:That was my trouble with you and Behold. You both kinda have this way of deliberately starting crap, unnecessarily.
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Little Men Love to Belong to "Clubs" makes them feel better and special over the "common" believers. Pharisee club, Calvinists club and etc. Satan plays with and deceives them. Beware!!
Little Men Love to Belong to "Clubs" makes them feel better and special over the "common" believers. Pharisee club, Calvinists club and etc. Satan plays with and deceives them. Beware!!
Hidden In Him
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It's an oversimplification. It may apply to a few, but applying it as an absolute is putting people into a convenient box instead of taking the time to get to know them. People have all sorts of reasons for why they believe what they do. Some are raised in those beliefs, some run across a teacher of certain doctrines early in their spiritual development and accept them as true before they have studied very much for themselves, and still others gravitate to certain doctrines based on a misinterpretation of certain verses and passage they assumed meant one thing when they actually meant something else.
But to classify all people in such categories as "little men"? There were some Pharisees whom scripture suggests were godly men. Nicodemus recognized that Jesus came from God, and he was a leader in Israel. You shouldn't always assume that because someone accepts certain doctrines that they are "little men." I think the bigger problem out there is people who portray themselves as "big men" in the faith, when in reality that's not the way God sees them. I can think of a few Faith people who fit this category, btw.
All churches have a club like system to them. Not sure what your point is. And it appears feminist.
Hidden In Him
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Well this I would agree with. :)
But if little men love belonging to clubs and all men are little men, doesn't that mean you're saying we all love belonging to clubs? I'm not really big on clubs myself. I'm not part of a denomination even, and don't really have any doctrinal affiliations at this point, although I do agree with denominations and movements on some doctrines while disagreeing with them on others.
Pharisee club members ruled the temple and the people and they did a very poor job and Jesus had very strong words against them.
Matthew 23:1-7
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. 5 “But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries, and lengthen the tassels of their garments. 6 “And they love the place of honor at banquets, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called by men, Rabbi.
Little Men Love to Belong to "Clubs" makes them feel better and special over the "common" believers. Pharisee club, Calvinists club and etc. Satan plays with and deceives them. Beware!!
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Clubs aren't evil. The Pharisees were killing and persecuting people including Christians. There's a difference. The fact that you use the word club kind of lessens the evil of what the Pharisees did.
The term "club" might not be exactly applicable. "Group" would be better. And it may not necessarily be the motives that you have mentioned. Some people join clubs to do some good, and they actually do some good.
When it comes to false teachings, there may be many reasons why people fall into that trap. However, there is no excuse to remain tangled in false doctrines, when the truth is out there and the Word of God is freely available to all.
Regarding the Pharisees, their original motives may have been good. They wanted to separate themselves from sin and evil and to obey the Law perfectly. But they were doing this in their own strength and of their own accord, and they went overboard with their traditions. Their primary sin was opposition to Jesus of Nazareth and His teachings. Had they repented and humbled themselves they would have become disciples. After His resurrection, some Pharisees did indeed become Christ's disciples, but even there some became Judaizers. Paul was an exceptional Pharisee in that God already saw that he would be a true Christian (even though he started out as a persecutor of Christians). And there have been many true Hebrew Christians.
Hidden In Him
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And what did Jesus have to say about Paul, a Pharisee of Pharisees? According to your approach of putting everyone into the same box, GISMYS, the apostle Paul was just one more little man in a long line of heretics.
Hidden In Him
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The Faith and Prosperity Club, and the Rapture is Imminent Club, LoL. And he's a card-carrying member of both, whether he's willing to admit it or not. :)
My understanding of the Pharisees is that they began to form as a group of men to insure the Law wouldn't be lost during the Babylonian captivity. I'm imagining that they began to see people drifting into Babylonian culture, and found this contemptuous.
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