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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
So, Mike, where do you think this thread went? You started out looking at some of the points Lee made regarding articles of the faith we should hold on to. Do you think the responses and resulting discussion were effective regarding these things you brought up?
Generally speaking, I have little desire to disseminate all the detailed particulars of what Lee stated (regarding each of the main points of the faith we should adhere to). As I tried to say (apparently not very successfully, considering the heat I got from others) was that my main take-away was that we are all one in Christ and should not divide ourselves over things that are not essentials of the faith. Yes, that is a very basic and simple concept, and that was what the Anointing was conveying to me at that time. What the Anointing was showing me about practical oneness, had nothing to do with the true condition of the LCs or its leaders . . . it was just a a simple, enjoyable truth, that the Anointing wanted to impress on my young heart at that time.
Maybe a good question for this forum might be: What do we think are the main essentials of the faith that all believers should insist upon for fellowship?
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I’m glad you brought this topic up. I’ve been wrestling with that question “what is the faith?” and what I thought about Lee’s definition of it in the book discussed here. So, before my thoughts I’ve put links to the only verses in the New Testament that actually use those two words (based on look into Greek Interlinear, not Just English versions that sometimes add or delete “the” to faith.
Jude 1:3
https://biblehub.com/jude/1-3.htm
Colossians 1:4-8
https://biblehub.com/bsb/colossians/1.htm
Acts 3:16
https://biblehub.com/bsb/acts/3.htm
1 Timothy 1:19
https://biblehub.com/blb/1_timothy/1.htm
So, it seems “the faith”:
Was once delivered to the saints and is something we are urged to contend for.
Is in Christ Jesus and together with love for all saints proceeds out from the hope that is stored up for us in heaven, about which we heard in the word of truth, the gospel that came to us through faithful ministers of the gospel and is bearing fruit and growing all over the world where it has been announced.
Is about Jesus Christ, the Author of life, who was killed after being delivered to death by his own people, but God raised Him from the dead, and the apostles were witnesses of the fact. It is by faith in the name of Jesus, crippled men are made whole and strong (not by the apostles own power or holiness).
Is pretty well spelled out (as well as what it is not) in Chapter 1 of 1 Timothy. Read the whole chapter. I won’t summarize, give critical points, give conclusions, crystallize, make outlines for training, put my digest (regurg?) in a HWFMR, or well you get the point.
Again, I end up much preferring what the Bible actually says, versus what Lee says. Dump Lee’s book, it didn’t produce the fruit the apostles say the the faith does.