Millions upon millions of voices all clamoring at the same time, all uttering the same thing.
God says…
The Bible (God) says…
God is leading me to say…
God is telling me to tell you…
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. right?
Get a Baptist and a Catholic in the same room and let them duke it out over One Baptism.
Father, Son, Holy Ghost and these three are one. Surely everyone agrees?
Baptism saves. It doesn’t save.
Communion is the Lord’s Supper is the Eucharist, is really body of Christ, kind of the real body of Christ or a memorial?
Pre, Mid, Pre-wrath, Post rapture and tribulation.
Pre, A, Post millennial reign of Christ.
Dispensationalism. Non-dispensationalism. Hyper-dispensationalism.
Calvinism.
Arminianism.
Pelagianism.
Cessationist. Non-cessationist.
The Old Testament is for today. No it is not.
The gospels are for today. No they are not.
New Perspective. Old Perspective.
Pauline or Peterine.
The OT law is still for today.
No it’s not.
Yes it is but only the Ten commandants.
No, only Nine commandments. (No rest for me) and maybe the verses on tithing. Got to pay my salary you know.
Only the words in red matter.
Only what Paul writes matters.
Eternal Security. Perseverance of the Saints.
Losing your salvation.
66 books in the Protestant Bible. Catholics, and Orthodox count differently but no matter they aren’t Christians.
So you say:
God says…
The Bible (God) says…
God is leading me to say…
God is telling me to tell you…
Pray tell…why should we believe you?
Can you even answer the most basic questions?
What is salvation? How is a person saved?
By Grace?
By faith?
By works?
By faith, plus works?
By faith, plus works, and staying true to the end?
I can choose or not choose?
I can’t choose?
God chooses me?
I choose God?
Baptism saves?
Baptism doesn’t save?
You argue endlessly among yourselves.
The Bible SAYS!
God SAYS!
Our Church SAYS!
The Pope SAYS!
The Pastor SAYS!
There is one TRUE Church and it is ours, hundreds and hundreds of denominations say.
With us and heaven is your home.
Against us you fry.
Your lack of unity is the indictment against you.
Your lack of a singular voice is clear to all who dare listen.
You should not then be shocked when you try to tell non- Christians that God says or the Bible says
that they
smile
and turn a deaf ear.
Oh wait, they are deaf because God made them that way.
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. (Luke 8:10)
It’s God’s fault.
But….. but…… but….. God isn’t the author of confusion.
LOL!!!
You nailed it, Bruce. A very complete list of all the stuff that started driving me crazy when I dared leave my initial fold and try finding another church. Instead of finding another church to join, I found my freedom – after losing my faith. Gained so much more than I lost!
Yeah, it’s a joke. Kind of stuns me now, how long I was taken in by it.
One would have to be god himself to declare the one and only truth……..amazing how they all claim to speak on behalf of a book written by various men of various beliefs and cultures. What goes around comes around.