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So what has replaced the apostolic tradition?

To a dogmatic...bible verse person...of course. Do you think one needs the Holy Spirit to do verse searches?

Not at all. Look at how Paul says to conduct a meeting of the church in 1 Cor. 14. Who does this? People hardly believe in prophets or prophesy anymore. So then you have abandoned the biblical tradition for what other tradition? (Since most people neither believe in apostles nor follow...

Does it look like I'm trying to be dogmatic? Do you even understand the verses you post? Try engaging the thread with some understanding.

What about this... 2 Thes. 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

But to follow their doctrine.......do you think it is possible? Isn't "biblical" doctrine actually apostolic?

Are you saying that the OPC practice apostolicity?

How is this distinguished from what is practiced today? Or do you see that practice as identical?

There's more to this than what you have considered so far. The veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom...which no one would say was the flesh of Christ. We also have a veil within our own hearts. Only as we are willing to lose all things will God reveal His glory in our hearts and allow...

If one looks at the above diagram, one sees that the holiest place isn't empty. There is an ark present there. But what does the ark represent? In Hebrew the word for "ark" is actually "coffin." (Aron) Why a coffin? The coffin represents the death of anything that is not holy in God's...

Now I am going to post something very important to understand....so it will most likely go unnoticed. The context lies in this statement by Jesus... Luke 14:30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. People are so concerned with a salvation status that they begin with...

What makes something "apostolic?" Catholics believe their church is such based on a bizarre reference to "succession." (As if there was a family kingship being passed down) Others believe it means the "headship of Christ"....whatever that means in practical terms. But mostly people are...

When you learn to walk....then things may change.

Jesus said 'follow Me". That involves a walk. Everything with God is movement.

In the faith means in the race. Nowhere is there a check to see if you are eternally blameless. Salvation is a process and is progressive. The longer you live...the more will be expected that you progressed into a selflessness in love. Righteousness is a moving target.

We have enough of what exactly? Logical fallacies? It isn't of faith to calculate where something comes from... either you recognize the truth or you don't. Move on.

I'm just posting what I know....not trying to compete with your own high self-esteem of what you think is true or not. I'm not here to threaten you. You are still the prophet.

I am challenging people to come out of their religious traditions. They who have ears let them hear... No mention of Jesus...as in a sunday school class....yet very much about Him. (as in...Jesus....who you'll remember from last sunday's class...) Becoming all things to all men so as to win...

Paul set up leaders but not by his choice....but the Holy Spirit's. Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

And this doen't mean to spiritualize as in explain away something real and effective by making it conceptual and ethereal. Everything in reality has a spiritual force behind it. And many times even those forces have other forces above them.....allowing them to be at work. We so often see things...