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Greetings,
The facts are simple, very few people know what they
believe. Church councils of various
denominations have been called for nearly two
thousand years to try to explain what they believe.
They've even gone so far as to make their
explanations/interpretations of the Bible
infallible.
On the other side of the coin we have multitudes of people
who've decided that it doesn't matter what they
believe. We think John Trapp answers this
approach quite skillfully.
"And have we not some
like-minded amongst us, who are yet to choose their
religion resolving to resolve on nothing, because
there are so many sets and controversies and such
differences in opinion and contradictions of
preachers, therefore they will suspend to serve God
(as they call it) and not trouble themselves to know
whether side has the better?
But these might know:
1. That truth is but one in the same; Christ's coat is
seamless, His
truth single, and at good agreement
with itself.
2. That we have a most sure word, 2 Peter 1:10, sure and
sufficient
to perfect the man of God .... As the
lawyers used to say, it is
not too much knowledge, but the
ignorance of the scriptures
that begets strife.
3. That God's elect have promise to be taught of Gods, to be
kept
from being finally deceived, to be
brought to a certainty and full
assurance of what they should hold,
so evidently and clearly will
God by His Spirit speak to their
consciences, that they shall hold
fast the faithful word ..."
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