Comments on: Doctrine divides! http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/ Defending truth and contending for the Faith while carrying the Light of the Gospel into a world shrouded in darkness. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Pilgrim http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9815 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:06:36 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9815 Sure. Have at it.

:o)

- The Pilgrim

]]> By: Okie Preacher http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9811 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:37:50 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9811 Pilgrim; do you mind if I post this at my blog and redirect to your blog?

]]> By: Lori http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9725 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:32:58 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9725 Great point, and a lot to think of there!

]]> By: emergent pillage http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9721 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:37:55 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9721 –I know he’s in jail for taxes or something–

Which can’t be that big a deal, it only means he’s qualified to hold high political office in the current administration.

]]> By: Ministry Addict http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9718 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:15:19 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9718 “Everybody always asks me, ‘Why are you so divisive?’ And I say, ‘Fine, go ahead and agree with me, and we want be divided.’”

-Kent Hovind

(Okay, I know he’s in jail for taxes or something, but, still, he had a point.)

]]> By: Jeff http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9717 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:19:35 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9717 “It is better to be divided by truth than united by error.”

–Martin Luther

]]> By: fourpointer http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9714 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:44:24 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9714 MA–

Amen, indeed!

1st Thessalonians 5:4-8–You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

]]> By: Ministry Addict http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9713 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:32:21 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9713 Almost from the beginning God was dividing light from darkness. God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all. (I John 1:5) In fact, the very first creation that God recognized as “good” was the creation of light. (Genesis 1:4) Keeping this in mind, it would only make sense that the children of God (those that, by the spiritual birth of regeneration through faith in Christ Jesus, have become partakers of God’s divine nature) would be children of light.

Following this reasoning, children of light would have a desire to walk in the light, and to tend toward performing daytime, rather than nighttime, activities. Children of light should be sober, for the favored time of drunkenness is nighttime. Children of light should be properly dressed, for daytime is the time for getting dressed, and nighttime is the time for getting undressed. Children of light are to flee from the temptations of immorality and fornication, and these sins are most likely to occur in the dark.

]]> By: Manfred http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9709 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:33:31 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9709 Doctrine unites sheep and divides sheep from goats.

]]> By: Amy http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9707 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:24:43 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9707 I like to think of it this way:
Error divides and doctrine unites.
a voice crying out…..

]]> By: Rose http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9706 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:37:54 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9706 Great post!!

]]> By: docdeer http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9705 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:06:36 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9705 Doctrine indeed divides, as it should. Doctrine is a line of demarcation. It is a boundary of belief. Nice job reminding us that we need to be divided from some things.

]]> By: fourpointer http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9703 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:24:29 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9703 Yea, and the true Christ is indeed the most divisive man in all of history. A person is either with Christ, or they are against Him. If anyone says “I haven’t made up my mind”–then they have indeed made their decision, and have set themselves against Him.

In fact, the true Christ will “set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household” (Matthew 10:34-36).

A false Christ will unite the entire world.

]]> By: Okie Preacher http://defendingcontending.com/2009/03/16/doctrine-divides/#comment-9702 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:36:53 +0000 http://defendingcontending.com/?p=7995#comment-9702 Amen.

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