Which is more important....to walk in love or to be in complete agreement with the "oneness doctrine?"
I will give my answer first.
1. 1 Corinthians 13:2 says it does not matter if I understand all mysteries and have the gift of prophecy. If I have not love I am nothing. I believe we all believe God is in Christ 100%. I do. But to be able to explain it. No I can't . I except tha tby faith. But love..yeah I better understand that one. I'm not commanded to understand "oneness" but I am commanded to live 1 Corinthians 13.
Love is not rude
Love does not boast
Love is not puffed up with pride
Love .seeketh not it's own
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love believeth and hopeth all things
Love never fails
Argueing religion fails. It is not Christianity. It demands to conform others to think like they do. Love binds us together. Dead religion don't.
Love is my vote.
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Jesus said, "he who stands firm to the end will be saved" Mark 13:13.
Live Life in such a way that those who do not know Christ will come to know Him because they know you
Re4b.
My question was very simple. Love or doctrine. You answered with doctrine. That doesn't mean it's the wrong answer. I was just looking for an answer.
Chuck
Chuck, I think I know where your coming from, but this isn't a oneness question. Of course it's important to walk in love. It's not an "either", "or", thing. It's also important to me to worship only the one true God. I don't expect anybody to be in complete agreement with me. Are you saying that one can't be a one God believer and walk in love also? Are you sure that you have the concept of walking in love down pat? Do you think that you are the only one that walks in love? Are you making a judgment and saying that I or others do not? We are asked to walk in love . . .a love that goes beyond pointing to ourselves and saying "look at me, I'm so sweet." We are not to love in such a way that we compromise God given values, or compromise the truth. I don't always agree with the way others express themselves either, but I'm not going to get my britches in a wad over the font that someone uses when responding. Love would rejoice that someone is growing in the word and has found a zeal in it, and disregard all else.
__________________ And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Leaf,
This is a serious question. What is going on here is going on I understand in the mission field. By the time the 2 parties come to an agreement countless are not being witnessed to. I believe the whole ordeal is from the pit . Two groups of people argueing over a topic that has been going on for centuies. And I know that some of those folks were alot more knowledgable about theology than we are. If they couldn't come up with a concrete answer ,who do we thinlk we are. Jesus didn't say we needed to understand theology in it's fulness but to love God and our neighbor. I know one thing. I believe our oneness as Christians has diminished since this topic has been discussed.
James3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocricy.
Chuck
[/font]To employ soft words and honeyed phrases in discussing questions of everlasting importance; to deal with errors that strike at the foundations of all human hope as if they were harmless and venial mistakes; to bless where God disapproves, and to make apologies where He calls us to stand up like men and assert, though it may be the aptest method of securing popular applause in a sophistical age, is cruelty to man and treachery to heaven. Those who on such subjects attach more importance to the rules of courtesy than they do the measure of truth do not defend the citadel but betray it into the hands of its enemies. Love for Christ, and for the souls for whom he died, will be the exact measure of our zeal in exposing the dangers by which mens souls are ensnared.[/font]
true doctrine is a very important part of a christian's life..
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wayne
"There's room at the cross for you."
Bro.Chuck, you're judging a book(Me) by it's cover.
Have you ever met me? Do you really believe I don't
walk in love with others? I'm sorry I sound Dogmatic
to you, but I'm expressing the way I feel about my faith.
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Jesus said, "he who stands firm to the end will be saved" Mark 13:13.
Live Life in such a way that those who do not know Christ will come to know Him because they know you
MOtor,
Yes I agree but......not even Jesus snuffed out a smoking flax. The diffinition of love is in Gal. 5. When I go to pick an orange off my tree I expect it to look and taste like an orange. When instead I find thorns and briars I have to question that tree. Unless of course tha ttree has no ability to bear fruit. Jesus simply said we shall know them by their fruit....not their fine points of doctrinal issues. If we had a basic fundamental checklist we would probably all be in 100% agreement. The things that are being fought over is not a Heaven or Hell issue. I noticed on the common things tha tI posted I got hardly any replys. But ...things tha tcan be controversial YES!!Men love to argue those.Even if it might jeopardize a relationship. When it's all over let's see how precious our oneness is. That is the oneness that Christ prayed for in John 17.
Chuck
Oneness question
