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Old 01-28-2020, 08:53 AM   #11
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I say that Christian "truth" is assented by all Christians since the pages of the NT were laid down. Jesus rising from the dead on the third day qualifies, whilst "we become God" does not.
Here is a quote that seems to be saying the same thing.

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Originally Posted by OBW View Post
Unfortunately, not all of Lee's errors are so easy to spot. Too often it is that he just makes a statement that X means Y without anything more than the fact that he says so. So how do you refute those? If there is no evidence that it is actually true, then he has gone "beyond what is written" and is outside of the truth that the scripture has provided. The whole sum of truth is not contained in the Bible. But what we need is. Claims of truth beyond that, no matter how good or spiritual it sounds, is beyond what is written and is, at minimum, suspect. It is clearly nothing upon which to demand anything. It cannot be a major teaching or become something of the "core" of the faith.

And it surely does not gain the status of being worthy of the job as the decoder ring to re-read and reinterpret other parts of the Bible.
If I say, "Jesus Christ rose from the dead" most Christians would say, "Yes, that's true." Not sure how one could say they're Christian and say it's not true. This is a long-established pillar of the Christian faith. The dissolution of the church as a unified body (to what extent it was unified) followed the pursuit of ever finer points as if they needed to be ever broader, i.e. universally prescribed.

I mean, look at the scripture. "If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that God has raised Jesus from the dead you shall be saved." Pretty definitive. We can argue over what "believe" really means, and what "saved" really means, but it still shouldn't pull us from the common meaning held by the flock since the beginning. What is public, open and firmly and consistently attested to is what's safe.
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