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straw said:
Dear Sirs,

Do you get it ? We are not all the same. For this difference in personality, are you willing to destroy the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of humble folks who enjoy simple faith, must all need to be complex in their faith to be happy in God. I think not! . . . etc.
Yes, I get it just fine.... but you obviously do NOT "get it"!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" /> It has NOTHING to do with "personalities" but with the WRITTEN WORD OF GOD. It is undeniably true that the Holy Spirit distributes gifts as He wills. And it is also true that God has created each individual with differing intellectual abilities. However, this does not and cannot circumvent biblical truth, aka: doctrine which is where faith originates and to which faith is lived out by all.

In this thread, it has been argued that those men and women who are associated with TBN are blatant heretics because of what they TEACH.... get it? We couldn't care less how much a particular individual excites you, titillates your emotions or allegedly improves your prayer life. There are countless unbelievers who belong to all manner of religious groups who will profess that their "leader" moves them to great heights. Yet in every case, their teaching is built upon sand. How often must I and others point out to you that "feelings", even those feelings which you allege are the "Spirit" speaking to you are not of God and thus totally unreliable. The Devil can quote Scripture better than you or I, but He is also a master at distorting the truth and leading people astray.

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Jeremiah 6:16-17 (ASV) "Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein]. And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken."

Ephesians 4:11-16 (ASV) "And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ; from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love."

Now, if you will please notice, I have not quoted any mortal man in this reply nor in the one previous to it. What I have provided are passages of the inspired, infallible, and inerrant WRITTEN WORD OF GOD!.

However, I would be remiss not to direct you to this article: Theology for Every Man.

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"Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers." - John Owen (1616-1683)
One Puritan said "Showing mercy to the wolf is showing cruelty to the sheep."

In His grace,

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