That is a false dichotomy.
It is not unit or truth... It is unity under the One We Serve.
Strive to understand our brothers who approach Him from a differing perspective.
This does not mean adopting a view with which one does not agree as much as making shared faith in the Center central to our message.
We can, and should discuss these things in love without branding our brothers as false teachers.
Siloam, I appreciate your attempt at explaining a different approach to God's Word. I also appreciate anyones different point of view.
However, I do not think that we are going to be able to agree on this as IMHO, when someone says something different than what the Word of God says, that is not acceptable to me and is not open for interpretation of who a false prophet is.
Now again, what I do is post the exact quotes that the people I speak about have made themselves. I do not make an opinion or say "what I think".
If that harms "Unity" then it harms untity becasue the Truth of God's Word is always more important than unity or politeness but in fact I love both of those things........but not at the expence of truth..
Allow me to give you an example #1, Robert Schuller said..........
"A person is in hell when he has lost his self-esteem.”
Source: Robert H. Schuller,
Self-Esteem: The New Reformation (Dallas: Word Books, 1982), p. 167.
However the Bible says in Mark 9:47–48 that hell is a REAL PLACE (KJV 1900)
"And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
Do we accept that a statement that espouses the One we serve by completely changing the Word of God for "Unity". The thoughts of men who change the Word of God is a FALSE TEACHING no matter how you slice it my brother.
Example #2, the same man, Rober Schuller said one of the most balsphemous teachings ever uttered and that was that .....
"Christ’s death on the cross was for nothing more than protection against His perfect self-esteem from being turned into sinful pride."
Source: Robert H. Schuller,
Self-Esteem: The New Reformation (Dallas: Word Books, 1982, page 75).
Since Jesus had no sin and no sin nature, how in the world could He have been turned in pride??????
According to Schuller, Jesus would not even tell us that we are miserable sinners.
Source: Robert H. Schuller,
Self-Esteem: The New Reformation (Dallas: Word Books, 1982, page 47).
Is that what Jesus actually said?????Quite contrary, Jesus said, in Luke 5:32..........
“I
have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance”.
Rather than the cross sanctifying the ego trip, it is a testimony of man’s utter depravity and the horrible price that God paid to redeem fallen mankind.
Are you advocating that ....."
We can, and should discuss these things in love without branding our brothers as false teachers."??????
My dear brother, at what actual point would you say we as born again Bible believers stand up for the Word of God?
Does Matthew 7:21-23 still apply to us today?
Matthw 7:21-23........
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."