While I 100% agree with the message you're conveying, that we shouldn't be spiteful or judging because of doctrinal differences, this is where you get it wrong.
Part of God's plan for man's salvation is the Church. Christ spoke of building and establishing His Church multiple times in the Gospels.
Multiple times in Scripture we see Paul talking about the laying on of hands, which is the appointing of successors and Bishops, which Christ gave the Apostles authority to do. There are Church Fathers and Saints mentioned by name in the Pauline epistles, Clement of Rome and Dionysius the Areopagite, who were Bishops in the Church appointed by the Apostles.
Jesus DID establish a Church, before the Gospels were written and the Bible was compiled, there was the Orthodox Catholic Church.
The post was not mine but the reply to it was. Yes Jesus began the church. He did NOT however create denominations or separate church doctrines. He gave instructions and we are to follow them. He never said that His word or instructions had a deadline when they would no longer be valid or relevant or that these things He instructed would have an expiration date. He never said the Holy Spirit would leave them at some point after He was sent or that the things Jesus said go and do in my name would cease once the Bible was all done being written. Too many act as if they do. If that’s true then I sure want to see the scripture because I am always in the Bible and have never come across that
You’re right in that he didn’t create denominations because his way was the perfect way. As mankind, we ought to emulate Christ. How you think that ought to be done and hire I think that ought to be done may differ. Perhaps you like new music and I like traditional music. Either is ok. Perhaps you see adult baptism but not infant baptism and I see infant baptism as ok. These differences are not clearly laid out, therefore each person may have their own interpretation. To more easily find like minded people, we may group ourselves to a certain denomination, that’s ok. But many Christians deny the basics of the gospel. That’s not ok.
These differences are not clearly laid out, therefore each person may have their own interpretation. To more easily find like minded people, we may group ourselves to a certain denomination, that’s ok.
Actually it's not okay, because if anyone can make up their own interpretation, then how do you know the verses in Scripture mean what you think they mean? Where do you derive the basis for discerning what is true and untrue? If anyone can make up their own denomination, whats wrong with Mormons or Jehovahs Witnesses? By what means can you say their interpretation is incorrect? And how do you know what the "basics of the Gospel" are if it's just your own interpretation? Maybe I disagree with what you think the basics are, whos to say either is right or wrong?
The answer is the Church! And of course these differences are laid out, thats why the Church has councils like the Apostles did in the Apostolic times of the Church, look to Acts 15.
I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth
The Bible is mostly black and white. So I don’t think most denominations are equivalent. Churches that are true churches must hold to the core tenets of the Christian faith. LGBT is directly spoken about in the Bible. There is no question what it says. Interpreting LGBT to be biblical is not an interpretation, it’s a twisting of the scriptures and is of the devil. Things I’ve mentioned are examples of gray areas of the scriptures. I’m not saying I’m of no opinion on these topics, I just don’t believe they are masters of salvation.
While I 100% agree with the message you're conveying, that we shouldn't be spiteful or judging because of doctrinal differences, this is where you get it wrong.
Part of God's plan for man's salvation is the Church. Christ spoke of building and establishing His Church multiple times in the Gospels.
Multiple times in Scripture we see Paul talking about the laying on of hands, which is the appointing of successors and Bishops, which Christ gave the Apostles authority to do. There are Church Fathers and Saints mentioned by name in the Pauline epistles, Clement of Rome and Dionysius the Areopagite, who were Bishops in the Church appointed by the Apostles.
Jesus DID establish a Church, before the Gospels were written and the Bible was compiled, there was the Orthodox Catholic Church.
The post was not mine but the reply to it was. Yes Jesus began the church. He did NOT however create denominations or separate church doctrines. He gave instructions and we are to follow them. He never said that His word or instructions had a deadline when they would no longer be valid or relevant or that these things He instructed would have an expiration date. He never said the Holy Spirit would leave them at some point after He was sent or that the things Jesus said go and do in my name would cease once the Bible was all done being written. Too many act as if they do. If that’s true then I sure want to see the scripture because I am always in the Bible and have never come across that
You’re right in that he didn’t create denominations because his way was the perfect way. As mankind, we ought to emulate Christ. How you think that ought to be done and hire I think that ought to be done may differ. Perhaps you like new music and I like traditional music. Either is ok. Perhaps you see adult baptism but not infant baptism and I see infant baptism as ok. These differences are not clearly laid out, therefore each person may have their own interpretation. To more easily find like minded people, we may group ourselves to a certain denomination, that’s ok. But many Christians deny the basics of the gospel. That’s not ok.
Actually it's not okay, because if anyone can make up their own interpretation, then how do you know the verses in Scripture mean what you think they mean? Where do you derive the basis for discerning what is true and untrue? If anyone can make up their own denomination, whats wrong with Mormons or Jehovahs Witnesses? By what means can you say their interpretation is incorrect? And how do you know what the "basics of the Gospel" are if it's just your own interpretation? Maybe I disagree with what you think the basics are, whos to say either is right or wrong?
The answer is the Church! And of course these differences are laid out, thats why the Church has councils like the Apostles did in the Apostolic times of the Church, look to Acts 15.
1 Timothy 3:15
The Bible is mostly black and white. So I don’t think most denominations are equivalent. Churches that are true churches must hold to the core tenets of the Christian faith. LGBT is directly spoken about in the Bible. There is no question what it says. Interpreting LGBT to be biblical is not an interpretation, it’s a twisting of the scriptures and is of the devil. Things I’ve mentioned are examples of gray areas of the scriptures. I’m not saying I’m of no opinion on these topics, I just don’t believe they are masters of salvation.