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- Sat May 04, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
I read an article a long time ago by Al Mohler called "Theological Triage" where he broke it down into 3 different "Triages or Tiers... Triage 1: this would be what would differentiate a Christian from a non-Christian. Like belief in Jesus as our Lord in Savior. Triage 2: would be th...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
Trying to move away from the discussion of nonresistance and the Trinity, and back to the four categories in my original post. Fundamentalists and liberals tend toward opposite errors. Liberals deny the existence of any first-tier issues, and make everything a third-tier issue; the result is doctri...
- Sat May 04, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
I'm going to put my faith and trust in Jesus and what He did to save me from my sins. To trust in some man's interpretation of the scriptures that adds to what salvation requires gets us into all kinds of determinations of who is saved and who isn't. I will settle for what Paul says is 'of first im...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
- Views: 3287
Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
Trying to move away from the discussion of nonresistance and the Trinity, and back to the four categories in my original post. Fundamentalists and liberals tend toward opposite errors. Liberals deny the existence of any first-tier issues, and make everything a third-tier issue; the result is doctrin...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
- Views: 3287
Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
Basically, I think I have brothers and sisters in evangelical and Protestant churches, and I'm not going to relegate them to "the world" or "the ungodly", or act like Mennonites are better or more godly than they are. It is easy to judge someone or feel superior to them; but that...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
I think killing people is sort of a big deal. Unlike a molehill. I thought, surely I don't have to add again that I think nonresistance important. But apparently I do. I never said it is a molehill. I've had devotions at church about how Isaac and Joseph were types of NT nonresistance/love of enemi...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
Consider two hypothetical men. One man is a member of a nonresistant church, nods firmly when his pastors speak of it, would never defend himself with a gun, and teaches his children the same. But he resents his neighbor for an old dispute about the boundary line on their property; he gets angry at ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
The command to love God and love your neighbor is explicit and required. Love your enemy and don't resist evil is as well. The prohibition of serving in the military, or in law enforcement, or in political positions that have to do with the law enforcement or military? That's implicit - it follows f...
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Theology
- Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
- Replies: 98
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Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
No I agree. Because it was much earlier, and not by a council, but by teaching passed down from the beginning. Are you appealing to oral tradition? Or some specific writing? I don’t see the Trinity in the early church writings. I see things that could be alluding to it, but the same could be said o...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
- Topic: Political office
- Replies: 81
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Re: Political office
Yup.
https://courses.washington.edu/hist112/ ... 0FAITH.htm
https://courses.washington.edu/hist112/ ... 0FAITH.htm
Sixth. concerning the sword: The sword is ordained of God outside the perfection of Christ. It punishes and puts to death the wicked, and guards and protects the good.