Frank wrote:
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Have a good day brother!

Amishchristian wrote:
My wife makes excellent cookies. My favorite are chocolate chip and I have about ten on my desk right now. Crumbs in my beard is what I have to be careful about now that our store is in operation.

Dr. Tim wrote:
Only 236 arguing days until Christmas. Beat the rush. Don’t wait till the last minute to start being obnoxious.

Christopher000 wrote:
Those with graduate degrees are less likely to agree with Young Earth Creationism."

Darren Thomas wrote:
You clearly have no idea how synagogue worship was conducted.

Connor7 wrote:
I am Reformed, all 5 points, etc. but my fellow Calvinists needs to cut it out, be watchful, be humble, cut the “I’m going to be a cool Calvinist” and actually be willing to say that MacArthur, White, Durbin, Molher, Phil Johnson, Lawson, etc. aren’t infallible and that you can rightfully disagree with them and point out their errors in a humble manner.

John Lee wrote:
Hi Connor, are you also saying that pulpit/pew or teacher/taught is somewhat fundamentally wrong? I would be interested to know how you go about telling Johnny Mac he is wrong, in order to edify the body, in what I call a clergy/laity divide system.

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
Okay, Will concede dictionary definition. If you see brother Frank tell him he’s right

Connor7 wrote:
And sir, to be honest, your position is cultish, it is unbiblical, logically challenged, inconsistent, and I hope you do not live your life that way because it will cause you to have false hope and may have dire consequences in trying to find a church.

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
John, I still see that as too broad a definition
God has referred to both Israel and the Church as His bride. Therefore leaving Him for another is rightly termed “a whoring”
Seeking ill gotten financial gains is not the same thing

Check out the Cambridge dictionary, and a few others and you will see it. For example, the Cambridge has the secondary useage as:

Prostitute:

Darren Thomas wrote:
I have no issue with anyone challenging teachers. I do have an issue with your constantly insinuating that there is some sort of artificial divide between clergy and laity. The fact is that the teacher/taught divide is biblical, but you just don't like it.

If folks disagree with their teachers and point out their errors, what sort of teachers are they sitting under?

Let's have a think about this, and see if your teachers have taught you to be respectful, willing to hear another, rather than Bible-bashing him into submission.

Let's think about how Jesus does this, when he attends a synagogue, even a synagogue where he is unknown. Let's think of him in Horeb Synagogue, for example. Is there a paid teacher there? Just one who teaches and the others just listen? And this one takes the entire 'service', announcing psalms, reading scriptures, teaching the word, and so on?

Not in my reading of the Bible, it never happened like that. And it never happened like that when the converted apostles attended the synagogues for many, many years after Pentecost.

Frank wrote:
Thanks brother! You are saying the same thing I tried to say, just much better.
Hope you have a great day.

Darren Thomas wrote:
Would you have challenged the apostles in the same manner? Did they not start this so called divide that you so strongly object to? Are all teachers? (1 Cor 12.29) is a rhetorical question to which the obvious answer is no. So if there are spiritually gifted teachers and they function as such, is the teacher/taught divide unbiblical?

Do you see the problem?

And then, you can take two highly respected Teachers of the Bible, and they can hold opposite views on certain subjects, which they will teach to their adherents, and at least one of the groups will be hearing something untrue.

Connor7 wrote:
I am Reformed, all 5 points, etc. but my fellow Calvinists needs to cut it out, be watchful, be humble, cut the “I’m going to be a cool Calvinist” and actually be willing to say that MacArthur, White, Durbin, Molher, Phil Johnson, Lawson, etc. aren’t infallible and that you can rightfully disagree with them and point out their errors in a humble manner.