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To: amorphous

If you substitute one’s own personal view for “a return to fundamental principles”, then yes, I agree with you. But then you yourself stumbled over the same block by your strong belief there will be no one raptured out of the coming Apocalypse - no?
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I don’t understand the point you’re making here, but I contend that one’s own personal view is only and always just that, no less and no more, and this is true despite the fact that many others may hold the same view.


128 posted on 05/09/2020 8:49:15 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is more dangerous than the Democrat Party and those who support it.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
I don’t understand the point you’re making here, but I contend that one’s own personal view is only and always just that, no less and no more, and this is true despite the fact that many others may hold the same view.

You referred to others as, "the Fundamentalists on this thread", and I just wanted to define the term and point out were I disagree with the term itself, assuming "a usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles". As often many religious movements or doctrines stretch the literal meaning of scripture completely out of focus.

Another thing I see many do, is to attempt to simply that which is complex. One issue often not taken into consideration is the uniqueness of "those in Christ". And how they differ from other people of God. The "rapture" is for those who are in Christ. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are separate entities in the strictest sense. Something else stretched beyond focus.

Isaiah 26:20 is a warning to others, not of Christ, but to those who are also God's people:

Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.

And verse 21...

For behold, the Lord [Christ] comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood [to include those 1 billion aborted, IMO], And will no more cover her slain.

If you study scripture closely, you will see the above applicable in many areas of belief. Many fail to keep this distinction in mind, and that creates great discord and confusion.

132 posted on 05/09/2020 9:19:43 AM PDT by amorphous
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