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Chris's avatar

I really do appreciate this article. It made me think of why I left the previous church of Christ I attended and started attending another one about thirty minutes away. I ran into issues that ranged anywhere from political issues and foul language being used in the church to the church being opened to performing homosexual marriages. There were at least sixteen different issues that I can recall that came up and did not agree with Bible teaching. If I keep thinking about it, I can probably add to that sixteen. It was a difficult thing to experience but I realized that it was time to leave.

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PATRICK JONES's avatar

How said that the BIble is not allowed to settle issues. Why is that the case you ask? Because of different views or perhaps paradigms. I left the baptist church in 1978. Lots of adjustments in doctrine needed to be made - all for the correct reason. On the opinion side (doctrine to some) I learned dancing was a sin. So I asked if a husband and wife were "ballroom" dancing was that a sin - No.

It seems to me that it is important to operationalyl define terms. Some doctrines (Apostles traditions) are locked. Adamantine!

For me, the older brothers got it right when they said, "speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent."

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