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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
I would tread softly, Pastor. You are responsible for perpetuating the falsehood that the Bible is the 100% inerrant word of God. That doctrine has corrupted Christ's Gospel of love and promoted the kind of unloving division, dissension, and intolerance that you seem to be implying is among the Christians here. With agape love there is NO room for any such unloving behavior or attitudes toward anyone. Those who corrupt Christ's Gospel of love to spread dogma or doctrine in the "precepts and doctrines of men" carry a heavy burden into the next life, IMO.
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Proclaiming scripture as 100% inerrant is less of a problem for me than the doctrines which arise out of it. One of my best friends in college is a 100% inerrantist but his preaching still focuses on forgiveness and acceptance by Christians, while leaving any judgment up to God.
My favorite video preacher is Paul Washer, who is another 100% inerrantist, but who concentrates his message on how those who CLAIM to be Christian should be living. His kind of preaching was old-time Southern Baptist, of which he is one, while claiming the denomination has drifted far from what it used to practice and believe--which it has.
He preaches grace as necessary for salvation, but that where there is no fruit there is no root, and that is what the vast majority of Christians have become today---probably 95% to 98% of them according to him. He preaches not just the "small gate," but the "narrow way," whereas most evangelicals today preach the small gate but accept people living in the "broad way."
We need more preachers preaching to the people in their congregation to become more than what they are, rather than to leave them living like the rest of the world. In other words the 100% inerrantists have frequently become large on justification while ignoring regeneration.
I enjoy listening to Washer's preaching although I have a completely different view of scripture--but his heart is in the right place. And since many of his sermons are on U-Tube, I don't have to pay anything to hear about how the Word of God should be making a change in my life.
P.S. Mystic, you probably wouldn't care much for Washer because he talks frequently about hell which he claims will be filled with a lot of people who have said, "Lord, Lord." And, according to him, who in the Bible spoke more often about hell than any other person? Why it was Jesus, Himself.
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