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Originally Posted by Igzy
Someone else may have mentioned Paganism first. I really don't care. But you directed a statement about it at ME as if it had something to do with MY argument. And you knew it didn't.
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If I did not respond it is because some of your arguments are very hard to refute or I would only be repeating myself. There is little more I could do to reply to your points and Drake as mostly picked up the ball on that one. Plus you would rather discuss with Drake than me anyway, and I'm fine with that.
I'm not trolling but addressing some factual errors. You replied to leastofthese's post #185 in #186. That means you stepped into this little side discussion about Pagan Christianity (the book).
It should be no surprise to anyone then that I was addressing
both of you.
If someone quotes me from another thread and brings that into here, and then you comment or reply to that,
don't act surprised or "this is not the topic of the thread" when I address that. That is not trolling, that is clearing the air.
But thank you for acknowledging that Pagan Christianity is one example of such a book. Certain parts seem to be taken straight from Nee's books anyway. It's not really an independent source of information about the early church. The book is not a reliable theological resource -I can't point to it and say it proves Nee right, if they are just quoting him anyway.
To a limit I agree with you that most Christian books are not prejudiced or say negative things about each other. But I think that is because of the consequences of saying negative things rather than because they do not have anything negative to say. Most authors want to shy away from controversy. Viola and Barna have tried to stay away from controversy by the points that leastofthese raised, the "spirit of the book", yet have still received a certain amount of flak from Christianity.
Even though I may agree with the things in the book, there is a fundamental difference in the approach. The book declares most of Christianity to be pagan, and yet much is neutral and therefore okay.
The Recovery is not about rejecting denominations because they are pagan. It because of what we believe the bible reveals about one church per city. If the one church per city is true, then denominations are ruled out. Not, denominations are ruled out because they have pagan practices.