It should be understood that no man or indeed a woman can understand the scriptures as they should be understood save by the Holy Ghost .
It is also worth ruminating on the fact that just because men have been given that authority in the church then as now ;how is it then that almost from the word go or rather from the moment that the church "LEFT" its first love the door was opened to the errors/ "works" of the Nicolaitans which in turn led to the "doctrine" of the Nicolaitans and all the errors that followed.Till we came to the Reformation when after 400 years the light dawned again and the first seedling of truth was revealed "the just shall live by faith"
But each truth so held was then held to be all truth and the next unfolding of truth was in the main rejected by the last and another had to take up the torch . From Lutheran to Calvin to Baptist to Quaker to Methodist ,to Evengelical , to Salvationists, to Pentecostal.
The church is a prodigal church returning to the Fathers house .
Men do not have by some inaniable right the means of infallibility .Though some foolishly claim they are or act as if they are .
So as the devil likes to polarise the church into one extreme camp or the other we should be aware of that age old tactic.
and keep all things in balance.
and not take one truth out of context as make it what it is not.
Given that much of the church does not even believe the book of Genesis to start with ,mixing truth with error to please the world.
That Paul references the creation of Adam and the creation of Eve as the foundational thought of his thinking in the matter as too the deception of Eve and not of Adam. Given the above and the lack of any real understanding of it .One would suggest that instead of vying for power and 'position'as politicians often do it would be more profitable to understand more the foundations before we contemplated the building of his argument.
For if we hold to the error that Gods account of the creation of all things and of man is but a metaphor or story etc etc then we have no hope of understanding what is built upon it.
in Christ
gerald
It is also worth ruminating on the fact that just because men have been given that authority in the church then as now ;how is it then that almost from the word go or rather from the moment that the church "LEFT" its first love the door was opened to the errors/ "works" of the Nicolaitans which in turn led to the "doctrine" of the Nicolaitans and all the errors that followed.Till we came to the Reformation when after 400 years the light dawned again and the first seedling of truth was revealed "the just shall live by faith"
But each truth so held was then held to be all truth and the next unfolding of truth was in the main rejected by the last and another had to take up the torch . From Lutheran to Calvin to Baptist to Quaker to Methodist ,to Evengelical , to Salvationists, to Pentecostal.
The church is a prodigal church returning to the Fathers house .
Men do not have by some inaniable right the means of infallibility .Though some foolishly claim they are or act as if they are .
So as the devil likes to polarise the church into one extreme camp or the other we should be aware of that age old tactic.
and keep all things in balance.
and not take one truth out of context as make it what it is not.
Given that much of the church does not even believe the book of Genesis to start with ,mixing truth with error to please the world.
That Paul references the creation of Adam and the creation of Eve as the foundational thought of his thinking in the matter as too the deception of Eve and not of Adam. Given the above and the lack of any real understanding of it .One would suggest that instead of vying for power and 'position'as politicians often do it would be more profitable to understand more the foundations before we contemplated the building of his argument.
For if we hold to the error that Gods account of the creation of all things and of man is but a metaphor or story etc etc then we have no hope of understanding what is built upon it.
in Christ
gerald