Friday 18 July 2008

doctrines

its strange how much I've been exposed to a lot of weird doctrines, from the net, from friends , and church and even my sister(who's a catholic)
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but somehow God has been merciful, and He has always lead me back to what some people might call "orthodox" in a sense
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1st doctrine: Prosperity Gospel
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I accepted Christ in a Pentecostal Church, Trinity Christian Centre (Adam Road)
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needless to say there were some influences there, but I never really took note of it, although I eventually left church for about 1 year+
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and even after I joined Grace Methodist Church, which according to Huck Finn could be called a mulatter, and according to chem a racemic mix
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half the people are ANTI- prosperity Gospel
the other half are for
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haha
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I believe God wants to bless us =p
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but my definition of blessing can be found in (Matthew 5:1-11) , blessed are the poor, those who mourn ..... etc
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Unitarianism - denial of the trinity
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i read online doctrines before, but none of them seem convincing, esp since pauls writing, the "doxology" mentions the trinity
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eternal salvation w/o receiving Christ
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read some weird doctrine that a person does not have to receive Christ on earth...
which was rather convincing
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the sermon in church the next day in  church (Sunday) debunked the entire doctrine...

Catholic Doctrine:
my sister -whose arguments are very convincing
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but some of the central dogma of the catholic church...  i have reservations, such as the concept of the "sinless Mary" , "queen of heaven".
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and purgatory
the problem of purgatory is that it DENIES the ultimate saving power of Jesus sacrifice on the cross, the "one perfect and pleasing sacrifice", that we still need to atone for our sins through purgatory
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oh well
sometimes maybe its just better to have a simple faith
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like God is love, God is a just God but he gives mercy
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and God will take care... we just need to commit every thing in prayer to Him...
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and the gospel... while we can know a lot about apologetics, theology and doctrines, but we can NEVER fully comprehend the gospel, of how God crushed His only begotten Son for our sake...

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