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Originally Posted by Freedom
I am not advocating that we only follow prescriptive commands. I am urging caution about over emphasizing descriptive things. Christians have enough problem getting along over the things which are explicitly prescriptive. Things like baptism. Even Nee and Lee taught that such things are not worth arguing over. But then they went and took a perceived pattern, and not only emphasized it, but mandated it.
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It is a division and divisive practice for sure. But it is a division between black and white, light and darkness, God and Satan, the Bible way and the do whatever you want way. It is a good kind of division. It is the same kind of division that occurred in the Reformation. That too was a good kind of division. I'm sure at the time some would have said, look at the bad fruit of this guy Luther and how it has caused a division in the church. Yet Luther stood for what he knew to be true from the Bible.