Quote of The Week

I’m a new covenant Christian. NONE of this stuff is necessary. It can get out of hand, both in practice and in the money spent on them.

Michael Spencer (Internet Monk) from Thoughts on “Gear” (3) in reference to t…

HOLY SOMETHINGOROTHER, BATMAN!

That’s one of the best lines I’ve seen on this thread!

I’ve taken some heat over the label gnostic, but many evangelicals do resemble gnostics in their rejection of the place of matter in redemption. They apparently want a matterless heaven and a matterless Kingdom

I hear you. We left a church once because the pastor started preaching that believers’ physical bodies are not only not saved, but are THE source of all one’s sins and woes; whereas the soul/spirit/mind is somhow redeemed and immune and perfected. There was much confusion about Paul’s use of the term “flesh” and “body”. The pastor was not seminary-trained and really had no knowledge of gnosticism or the fact that he was headed that way, and refused to be reasoned with.

As C.S. Lewis wrote: God likes matter; He created it.

*Because my Mother in Law gave it to us, and if she doesn’t see it, we’ll be in mortal danger.

To concur with GratefulForGraces, show me the Scripture which refers to Jesus as “God.” Not just from God or the Son of God, but just “God.” It does exist, but it is rather obscure. Arians has a field day dismissing it as relevant. I’m just sayin’….

To all those on the Gregorian calendar, including the Finnish, have a blessed Holy Week.

Many doctrines developed as time went on, including that of the Trinity and that of praying to/for the dead. And where is it in Scripture that God has to say something more than once for it to be true?

Anyway, when you publish that book, I’ll add it to my gear!

Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

I’ve got several of those. Don’t you?

Not all of us use gear overtly. I doubt if most of my co-workers know what I wear 24/7, because they are under my clothes. I never wear a cross to work because I know how flawed I am. I don’t want my screw-ups to reflect back on Christ.

And as far as the humongous amount of stuff that I have at home, people rarely see it. I’d be more willing to have guests over, but it’s just not done much here. (Or at least in the groups I run around with. I got some very negative reactions, just mentioning doing some RCIA classes not at the parish.)

I’ll soon be publishing my list of doctrines we all must believe based on single verses in Maccabees. [/quote]

Sweet! Or how about a doctrine like the Trinity that doesn’t have a verse?

Peace back atchya,

GfG