Eph 4:14; 5:6;
14As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
15but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

1 Tim 4:1-5
1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
Hebrews 5-7 – reference to Christ as our high priest and no need for another.

Matthew 15:9 –
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
8″ ‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
9They worship me in vain;
their teachings are but rules taught by men.’”

Our worship to God is vain if it is based on human doctrines.

Galatians 1:8,9 –
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Acts 20:7 - communion on Sunday only
“On the first day of the week we came together to break bread.”

Maybe one can’t expect to learn much as far as really deep theology goes - especially if you’ve been to seminary and all - but there’s something really neat about the atmosphere that develops on the retreat.

De colores.

Walk to Emmaus, Leuders…sounds dreamy

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Thanks Mike (the commentor, not Cope) for depressing me with your dogma (it is indeed hard to teach an old dogma new tricks!).

Who said anything about being saved by such an approach? And does that imply that one cannot go to the Bible to learn from a verse anything at all about salvation? Is that idea something prooftexted from the Bible?

Regarding Luke 8:11, the exact verse says “now the parable is this, the seed is the word of God.” But Matthew 13:19 says, “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom,…” and that is the parallel account of the parable of the sower. So the “seed” IS the Word of the kingdom. I did not add to anything that God said, I merely said what God had already said. Were you not aware of Matthews account? The word “kingdom” is the “church” and thus the seed (word) applies to both the same.

Concerning Romans 10:17, the difference in the Greek on the word “word” doesn’t change the principle taught therein one iota. “Faith comes” how? By hearing. Hearing what? The preaching of the Gospel. In that particular context Paul has in mind the OT prophets: but his modern day application is the same: listen to the preaching of the Gospel and be saved. His target audience in chapters 9-11 are the Jews, whom he says (those who had not obeyed the Gospel) are lost (10:1-4). They should have listened to the writings of the prophets and thus would have known to come to Christ, to i.e. live by faith.

What is a “legalistic use of words” anyway? Was Jesus guilty of that when He kept every jot and tittle of the Old Testament Law while He was on earth? Was He guilty of that when He insisted while on earth that others do the same?

Sorry, I don’t believe your comments were justified in this case.

?? I just want to know if I am still young, or unofficially old.