I am not incorrect to point out the emphasis on studying Scripture, etc. for truth. The Spirit of Truth does lead us into truth, but you have to explain why so many sincere, godly believers have such a myriad of divisive, doctrinal views despite the same indwelling Holy Spirit, same sincerity, same prayerful study of Word, etc. (hint: noetic effects of sin; bad teaching; subjective, fleshly impressions mistaken for the Spirit, etc.)
We cannot have our cake and eat it too (unless we chose determinism and its problems of making God responsible for heinous moral evil.My position is a minority view in Christian circles, even considered heretical, but 30 years later, I am convinced it is the most biblical/coherent.My ideas are mainstream free will Deismtheism/Arminian, Wesleyian-ism. Your views are held by some, but not the historic, orthodox church. You are making our views diametrically opposed, when they are actually close (apart from difficult believism, and greasy law-ism,which is a different issue than salvific paradigms. Paul Crouch and Benny Hin differed on cessationalism, yet both strongly affirm Holy Ghost bartending.. The problem is your inability to think and lack of theological sophistication, not my view itself. You are clearly confused about our position because you are importing your wrong, shallow understanding and superimposing it on our views, which is not what you are claiming it is. Be balanced, and think biblical hermeneutics, in context.
Many people feel like you when they join a cult, instead of accepting the historical view. Sincerity or subjective experience does not create truth. This is the semantical problem, as proof texts used are actually exegeted in a better way in evangelical circles. The traditions in Scripture are biblical, truthful traditions, not spurious ones added later in church history that are contra/extrabiblical. Cults have traditions, but they lack truth. Sound exegesis confirms this as well,as a metaphor, not a wooden literalism. A blind acceptance of traditions of men is not acceptable.Avoid the pseudo-Christian cults. Reading the Church Fathers, they could not agree on many things and had some heretical beliefs due to their propensity to try to retain pagan Greek philosophy with Christian concepts. Doctrinal development, even in the pages of the Bible, was not automatic since the canon of Scripture was not formalized a day after the Resurrection and the variety of leaders who were not scholars with hundreds of years of reflection during church history. Again,tradition does not trump revelation, and sound exegesis, in context, without proof texting, and preconceived assumptions, and mainline, orthodox Christianity.
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