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Christians Preferred: Are only Literalists True Christians™?

ElishaElijah

ElishaElijah

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What marks a true Christian?
1. They have placed their trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, have been born again. Trusted that God became man, lived a perfect life, died on the cross/tree so our sins could be atoned for/forgiven, rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven. Will return for all believers. Are promised Eternal Life.
2. Repented of their sins and made a covenant with God to live a holy life, walking in the Spirit.
3. Become part of the Body of Christ worldwide, or the Bride of Christ together in One Body.
4. Have accepted the Bible as God’s Word and authority and the only people who can properly interpret what the Scriptures mean because the Holy Spirit now leads, teaches the believer what those Scriptures mean.
5. Are God’s ambassadors on the Earth.
 
Heyo

Heyo

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ElishaElijah said:
4. Have accepted the Bible as God’s Word and authority and the only people who can properly interpret what the Scriptures mean because the Holy Spirit now leads, teaches the believer what those Scriptures mean.
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Wait ... wasn't your original position that the bible has to be taken literally? Now you say it has to be interpreted. (With all the problems that arise with how to know who's interpretation is "right".)
What's the difference in believing in the Genesis account (which we know is not backed by science) an believing in a flat earth with a solid dome above it?
 
ElishaElijah

ElishaElijah

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Heyo said:
Wait ... wasn't your original position that the bible has to be taken literally? Now you say it has to be interpreted. (With all the problems that arise with how to know who's interpretation is "right".)
What's the difference in believing in the Genesis account (which we know is not backed by science) an believing in a flat earth with a solid dome above it?
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What I said was the “Literal Method of Interpretation” assumes the words of Scripture in their plain evident meaning are reliable, that God intended His revelation to be understood by all who believe, that the words of Scripture communicate what God wants man to know, God based the communication of truth on regular laws governing written communication and intending for it to be interpreted by those same laws. The Holy Spirit is involved in determining the meaning of Scripture.
I already said this doesn’t exclude figurative language, spiritual meaning,application, or depth of meaning.
Gave you the reference that explains these principles. You’ll have to go back and look. When someone says, “get out of here”, don’t you need context to know what they mean? Don’t you need to interpret? Don’t you need to know the person to understand them? I think so especially in our day where people take something someone says and twists it to say they meant something else. The “gotcha”, gossip and slander generation.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
The Church existed before the NT was even written, thus its driving force clearly could not have been the Bible itself. Thus, the Bible is a means to an end but not an end in and of itself. When the Bible was canonized in the 4th century, there was not any claim that it was inerrant, and this was for a good reason as the selection process was often contentious at times.
 
ElishaElijah

ElishaElijah

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metis said:
The Church existed before the NT was even written, thus its driving force clearly could not have been the Bible itself. Thus, the Bible is a means to an end but not an end in and of itself. When the Bible was canonized in the 4th century, there was not any claim that it was inerrant, and this was for a good reason as the selection process was often contentious at times.
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Jesus Christ is the One and Only, “Everything is about Him”. The whole story written and recorded in the Bible is all about Jesus Christ from the beginning to end. He is all in all.
 
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