false teaching, was The Passion of Christ

[calv...@sysko.com]

"Are you sure you're not just trying to stir up trouble by making a
mountain out of a mole hill?"

No, maintaining orthodox teaching is very important. From not doing so
we get the mormans and the jehovah witnesses and the christian
scientists and many many other groups. All were started by lone ranger
interpreters of scripture using only themselves as a reference.

"And just out of curiosity, what *do* the "communion of christians
[sic]" (who I guess must have sent you here as their representative)
think Jesus was teaching us with His cursing of the fig tree?"

There can be many interpretations and such have been offered. But none
conclude that it means that trees have souls and free will. One common
idea is the parable refers to israel.

"And what is so wrong in believing that without the love of God to
sustain them in being, all created things would simply cease to exist?"

Nothing, but the newly invented doctrine is not saying this but mixing a
doctrine of pagan animism with a private interpretation without
reference to the orthodox teachings of 2000 years.

[calv...@sysko.com]

"Since the Holy Spirit has given me the understanding that the fig tree
sinned against GOD by refusing to bear fruit for LORD Jesus Christ, the"

Here we find a self appointed lone ranger interpreter of scripture using
internal emotional states to invent new doctrine. Mormans and jehovah
witnesses and christian scientists and many others have been born from
such private interpretation and all claim private instruction from the
Holy Spirit..

Orthodox teaching of 2000 years is the only measure of any newly
proposed invention about scripture. The three newly invented doctrines
proposed here recently fail that measure. It is by christian communion
that such are corrected but those who refuse to do so and act as lone
rangers automatically put themselves outside the fold.

The three false doctrines are that all things in creation have souls and
free will, including trees and rocks, and that the three persons of the
Trinity are submerged in a system of 7 spirits and that the Holy Spirit
is to be understood using the false doctrine of "chi" from the pagan
religion of taoism.

[Chuck Stamford]

<calv...@sysko.com> wrote in message
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Calvin, didn't anyone ever tell you you're not supposed to quote people
without attribution?

Chuck Stamford

[The Lord, pt. II]

Chuck Stamford wrote:
> Calvin, didn't anyone ever tell you you're not supposed to quote people
> without attribution?

Why not? It works for Chung often enough.