If we have known anything about church history. Between the year of about 200, and when Martin Luther gives his thesis. There were 4 major conferences. Religious leaders gathering, and deciding what Christianity is to be.
Now that does not seem to odd..because that is what men do. But what is strange is; those ideas are still in the church today. We talk about being more modern, people want to keep up with the times. I would say, if that is the case. Born again believers get caught up on doctrine. At any given time you can go into a mainline denomination (certain denominations), and hear what it was that the leaders in those conferences thought Christianity was to be.
Now what that does is; cut out the Holy Spirit! The leading of the Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit; we do not understand our personal relationship. It is the Holy Spirit that makes Christianity personal.
That is witnessed in the world of religion, as believers believing what men would say Christianity is. The men of that day solidified what it was you were to believe Christianity was.
When we witnessed the charismatic movement - we were witnessing multitudes of born again believers, that had been stuck in these religious institutions, and now were moving into the deeper things of God.
And of coarse those institutions rose up against what was happening to those believers. What leaders did was to solidify and stabilize, what it was that you could believe.
For example; If you think about - in our lifetime, we have had many movements. In the late 1800's, a certain denomination moved on in to what we see today as.. divine healing. We get the out pouring of the Holy Spirit, and a movement came out of that. There was no understanding for divine healing until it came in the late 1800's. Because men had decided divine healing was not in Christianity. That is our lifetime. The understanding for divine healing has only been around since the early 1900's.
We feel what we know and understand, has always been in the church, that is not the case! Men should look at they're doctrine, and move into the things of God. Peter presented to the church - present truth!
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. - 2 Peter 1:12.
That is not to rewrite scripture - the word of truth. But to say scripture has truth that we do not see.
Now that does not seem to odd..because that is what men do. But what is strange is; those ideas are still in the church today. We talk about being more modern, people want to keep up with the times. I would say, if that is the case. Born again believers get caught up on doctrine. At any given time you can go into a mainline denomination (certain denominations), and hear what it was that the leaders in those conferences thought Christianity was to be.
Now what that does is; cut out the Holy Spirit! The leading of the Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit; we do not understand our personal relationship. It is the Holy Spirit that makes Christianity personal.
That is witnessed in the world of religion, as believers believing what men would say Christianity is. The men of that day solidified what it was you were to believe Christianity was.
When we witnessed the charismatic movement - we were witnessing multitudes of born again believers, that had been stuck in these religious institutions, and now were moving into the deeper things of God.
And of coarse those institutions rose up against what was happening to those believers. What leaders did was to solidify and stabilize, what it was that you could believe.
For example; If you think about - in our lifetime, we have had many movements. In the late 1800's, a certain denomination moved on in to what we see today as.. divine healing. We get the out pouring of the Holy Spirit, and a movement came out of that. There was no understanding for divine healing until it came in the late 1800's. Because men had decided divine healing was not in Christianity. That is our lifetime. The understanding for divine healing has only been around since the early 1900's.
We feel what we know and understand, has always been in the church, that is not the case! Men should look at they're doctrine, and move into the things of God. Peter presented to the church - present truth!
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. - 2 Peter 1:12.
That is not to rewrite scripture - the word of truth. But to say scripture has truth that we do not see.
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