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I currently attend a "Church of God" church and they seriously believe they are the one true church and that if your not baptized in it, your going to Hell. I know they are dead wrong but they are such nice people I don't know how I'm going to break it to them that I'm going to leave. I've established a connection with some of them that I normally avoid doing. It's going to be hard but eventually I will. This is just not the church for me.
You will never find a perfect church. Somethings you just have to ignore and let God do the correcting no matter how long it takes with the individual. The individual can be and is often much differant in beliefs then the denomination they affiliate with.
I go to several differant ones but don't believe all that anyone teaches. As for the denominational doctrine you talk of, I have not known of them to preach that in the past. I do know they do not believe you are babtised in the Spirit unless you speak in tonques, but that doctrine is plain hogwash. All who believe are babtised in the Spirit because the "Lord is the Spirit" and all do not manifest certain gifts as the Scripture says but all are babtised into Christ.
What are the things that you know are false that your church teaches? When you hear your church teach it how do you just accept it without questioning the pastor and try to correct him/her?
If you dont believe in....tithing. what is your reaction when your pastor says you better tithe?
or if you do believe in it and the pastor says not to tithe?
Do you just pick and choose what battles to fight?. No church is perfect, so you know and must admit that your church teaches some things that are lies. What do you consider the lies that your church teaches. And how can you sit there?
When i use to go to church, i did not agree with tithing. I would question the other people, but they just decided that if the pastor teaches it, then they must believe it.
They also had people rolling on the floor. I would be amazed how many people did such a thing. I know it was not biblical, but i just sat there like a fool, and sad for these people at the same time.
I am not perfect, and i am sure i have alot of learning to do. But i could no longer stand it when there would be christians who have been in the faith for many years, but could not answer simple questions.
I don't want to say I think anything about Catholicism is a lie, but I'll hesitantly admit I think some of the economic ideas I've heard as "Catholic Social Teaching" sound pretty unrealistic to me or unlikely to work in practice. I don't think they're bad, I think they're well-intentioned, but I just think they kind of represent an ideal more than something real. (Yeah it would be good if there was no poverty and the minimum wage was so high no one was deprived of what they need, in theory, I just don't think in practice it would work. You'd either have to give the state way too much power or you'd end up with massive unemployment because some jobs might not even be worth a "living wage.") Also I think labor unions are too adversarial and I would prefer co-operatively owned businesses to them, but the Church tends to be pro-Union. Although I do agree with the idea that our morals extend to the business world and you shouldn't mistreat people or knowingly allow your workers to suffer needlessly and so forth.
I've tried to deal with this as not being part of the faith as such, but there are some who make a good case that "yes it is." So I'm trying to find a way to reconcile myself to it in some way now that, in the last few years, my faith has increased in importance to me. (For several years after my near-fatal accident I bordered on being "This is nice and all, but I don't know if I even believe in God" kind of person. So didn't worry about specifics as much) Curiously this attempt to reconcile it is causing some problems with my relatives who pretty much remained ever faithful as they tend to be economically Right-leaning.
Maybe intentional lies is too harsh. Maybe there are unknown lies being taught.
then of course there are pastors that avoid certain topics because it goes against their particular denomination.
I dont think there are many pastors who wake up ready to lie. It is like if i say that the weather in china right now is 76 degrees. I dont know if its true, i am just saying this because that is what i heard. If it is 77 degrees, i am not lying intentionally. but if i know its 77 and just say it is 76 then i just lied. a little lie, but a lie nonetheless.
No doctrines that are worked out by reason from scripture with no contradictions, as opposed to specific statement?
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