In law,
those who prosecute a case, seeking to prove a person guilty of a crime,
are required by law to put forth ALL the facts, even if there were facts
which contradicted the prosecution’s case (everybody who watches “Law
and Order knows that!). In a sense, among brethren, some are prosecuting
the case that we have no pattern, that God accepts the level of “unity”
now existing, and that most sins are covered automatically without any
effort on our part
and that most sins are covered automatically without any effort on our
part.
To one
who is familiar with their tactics, one thing is clear. They NEVER bring
up facts (scriptural facts) which contradict their case. It’s kind of
like the Baptists who NEVER bring up
Acts 2:38
when
considering the role of baptism. We NEVER hear from them Biblical
definitions of real unity; we never hear how God actually dealt with
conditions when unity was missing; we never hear how God advised the
church so that unity could be achieved; we never hear the passages which
make obedience to actual acts a necessity for salvation, etc.
If the
case cannot stand up under the inclusion of such facts as these, what
are we to conclude? How trustworthy is the “Bible teacher” who ignores
scriptures which undermine his personal view of God’s plan? He certainly
is not following the apostle Paul, who did not “shun to declare the
WHOLE counsel of God”
(Acts 20:27)
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