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rrmoderator
radaph:
Your interpretation and spin on Galatians is interesting.
When did we start discussing the book of Galations, specifically? And when did I explain or even elude to my interpretation of it?
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If you take the time to discuss your interpretation with biblical scholars and/or pastors, very few would agree with you and they will set you straight.
I have been around a while, and seen that there are pastors and bible scholars who will agree with just about any notion you can imagine if you look hard enough. That proves nothing.
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I don't have the time to go on and on with you here, which seems to be your tendency.
I didn't ask you to go on and on. You said (in essense) the bible supports pastor-bashing, and I asked you to show me where it says that. I'm still waiting.
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If you are seriously interested in this issue of authority and accountability perhaps you should attend a bible study within a respected mainstream evangelical church in your area.
There must be many churches taht have bible studies in your area.
There are, and I have. And amazingly enough, I have heard pastors from quite a few churches which had no offiliation with Berachah or the Col in anyway, agree with my statement here. But I'll hold myself to the same standard I held you to, and make it clear that if all the pastors in the world agree with me, that doesn't prove me right.
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Your comments on this board are often supportive of the kind of suffocating authoritarian leadership both Paul and Jesus warned about within the New Testament.
You know, honestly I think the difference between you and I is this.
If Col Theime's church was truly as destructive as you and many of the people of this forum claim it to be, then I might agree that the church (i.e. the body of Christ, not the actual local church) needs to speak up and make it clear to the unbelieving world that they do not condone this type of teaching, so that their testimonies are not damaged.
But that would be the end of it. He is cause no physical harm of any sort. I grew up in the prep school, I was never molested. I sat in the congregation as an adult, and I was never robbed or even strongly persuaded to give even one single penny to the church. And when we took the eucharist it was grape juice, not spiked Koolaid.
So since the harm being done is purely spiritual, and highly debatable, I see not reason to try and shut the place down. Which is exactly what people like Truthtesty would like to do I think.