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Originally Posted by Evangelical
If you are so concerned with what has scriptural support and what doesn't then I hope you don't celebrate Christmas or Easter which is neither prescriptively or descriptively found in the bible.
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You point to the voluntary celebration of an event on some day as a problem when even Paul does not chastise for the celebration of days. Then you insist upon principles that are based on opinions about what is not stated in the scripture.
If you can't see the difference, you are clearly the one blinded. Many voluntarily celebrate actual events recorded in the Bible. You despise that. But you insist on opinions derived from things not said in scripture.
In fact, some of your most important "spiritual" distinctives are not from what is in the scripture, but from what is insisted to be hiding between the lines.
Jesus is the Holy Spirit.
God's economy is a definable thing to be taught and can be used to ignore the actual meaning of scripture.
You should only pray for something 3 times or your prayer becomes vain repetition.
A church is defined by the city in which it is found, meaning that there can only be one church in a city. Not spiritually one, but actually one, meeting at a particular place and using a particular name. Any other assembly is not a "genuine" church.
As for things neither prescriptively nor descriptively found in scripture, most of modern life is not found in scripture. Yet it tells us how to live within that life no matter how it looks. Yet your "God's economy" teaching can insist that a believer refrain from doing what is right (accord to the righteous law of God) because you have not received enough "dispensing" of God to do it. Don't bother reckoning yourself dead to sin. It is too hard. Or so said Lee. Wait until the righteousness just naturally flows from you.
It sounds so spiritual. But it is not. It is evil wrapped in a faux spirituality.