Women, know your place

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Re: Women, know your place

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I believe you refer to the two passages quoted below. Jesus made no reference to a "church", let alone one exclusively correct church. As with salvation which cannot be forced upon any unwilling person, so too the guidance of the Holy Spirit is something that humans can accept or reject at any given moment. If that were not so, then believers could not sin - but we do. Sanctification is evidently an on-going process that is not perfected until after (or by) death and resurrection.

So definitely no church has "everything" right. But that of course is not the same thing as saying "no church has anything right" - although the LDS and Christian Science do have a pretty good stab at it. (Guin: that's not a joke).

For example: "I believe that Jesus Christ is the only son of the only Living God" might seem to be quite a "Christian" thing. But the Bible says that even demons can say the same, so that's not a sufficient mark of a true christology.

Evidently there is a need to define what a person (or church) means by the words "Jesus Christ", "son" and "God" before assuming any similarity in faith. The more people believe "things" about Jesus which are from a source other than the Bible, then greater is the likelihood of non-christian doctrine - A Course In Miracles for one and "The Shack" for another.
Jn 14:25-26 “These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you"

John 15: 23-27 "He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning"
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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