Against LSM's Allegorizing

[awareness]

Originally Posted by kisstheson

Hello dear ones, I want to return to something I said in a much earlier post:....

Good word bro KTS. Right on!

[kisstheson]

Originally Posted by awareness

Good word bro KTS. Right on!

Thank you for your "Amen", dear brother awareness. Living the Word, and not just hearing the Word, is such a clear burden in the New Testament.

The Anabaptists are one of the groups which I mentioned who "took the words of our Lord the most seriously and soberly and as literally as possible" and who lived out the words of the Lord. I just read something about the Anabaptists along these very lines which really touched me (emphasis in the original):

"For the Anabaptists, learning, remembering, and repeating the words of Scripture was a means to a practical end: it was living the Bible continually that really counted."
(from C. Arnold Snyder, Following in the Footsteps of Christ: The Anabaptist Tradition, p. 116)

May we be those whom our Lord finds as "doers of the Word", and not hearers only. May we take His commands and His warnings seriously. May we not explain away His clear words with our clever allegorizing.