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Originally Posted by Cassidy
Seriously, if you mean by many waters all the believers sharing what the Lord has shown them and what they experienced of Christ then I agree with you in principle. But then, you are using a different working definition of christian scholars than Ohio used. He meant a class of intellectual Christians, what we call scholars in the traditional sense of the word, who validate minister's credentials. I disagree with him on that because it suggests academia is the qualification for the validation and it also usurps the authority of the Holy Spirit Who alone is responsible for the special commissions in the church.
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How do you know what I meant? Did you even ask? I was actually referring to the collective learned and mature ones in the body of Christ. I don't care what credentials they have. Some are in academia, some are in pulpits, some are writers, some are teachers. The Bible says, "and He gave some teachers and shepherds." Are not these ones considered the respected scholars of the body of Christ? Could not we also call them "counselors" as
aron has done?
Obviously you have rejected all of these brothers because your MOTA has condemned them all as "poor, poor, Christianity." What a shame to you! You take the word of just one man and condemn all others. Lee said that since 1948 there has not been one valuable book written in the whole of Christianity outside of his own books. Why do you swallow such arrogance, Cassidy? Why do you reject the whole of the body of Christ and cling to a man who cannot be trusted?