Jgnat is a Sunday school teacher in a Canadian CMA church. This is the statement of faith from HER church. Usually, one must have the trust of a congregation and the Pastor(s) to become a teacher. One must also adhere to the statement of faith. If they do not, then the only honorable course is to NOT teach and perhaps also resign from the church. Hypocrisy is as Hypocrisy does....
1. There is one God,1 who is infinitely perfect,2 existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.3
2. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.4 He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.5 He died upon the cross, the Just for the unjust, as a substitutionary sacrifice, and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. He arose from the dead according to the Scriptures.6 He is now at the right hand of the Majesty on high as our great High Priest.7 He will come again to establish His kingdom of righteousness and peace.8
3. The Holy Spirit is a divine Person, sent to indwell,9 guide, teach and empower the believer, and to convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment.10
Here is what a Sunday school teacher would be obligated to teach on the church's view of scripture:
4. The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, were verbally inspired by God and are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of people. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice.11
If you don't believe it, don't teach it. Even worse, a traitor goes behinds the backs of those who they are obligated to. I wonder how that filters through the 'law of love'?
5. Humankind, originally created in the image and likeness of God,12 fell through disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All people are born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ.13 The destiny of the impenitent and unbelieving is existence forever in conscious torment, but that of the believer is everlasting joy and bliss.14
Wouldn't it be more 'loving' to warn people of their fates, according to the teachings of your faith?
6. Salvation has been provided only through Jesus Christ. Those who repent and believe in Him are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit and are thereby regenerated (born again), justified, sanctified and granted the gift of eternal life as adopted children of God.15
Is 'loving' to lampoon fellow Christians who are seeking to provide a true witness to those who may be perishing?
7. It is the will of God that in union with Christ each believer should be sanctified thoroughly16 thereby being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to God, receiving power for holy living and sacrificial and effective service toward the completion of Christ's commission.17
This is accomplished through being filled with the Holy Spirit which is both a distinct event and progressive experience in the life of the believer.18
8. Provision is made in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the healing of the mortal body. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil as taught in the Scriptures are privileges for the Church in this present age.19
9. The universal Church, of which Christ is the Head, consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and commissioned by Christ to go into all the world as a witness, preaching the Gospel to all nations.20
I have been preaching the gospel to people. I am simply doing what I am called to do.
The local church, the visible expression of the universal Church, is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together to worship God, to observe the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, to pray, to be edified through the Word of God, to fellowship, and to testify in word and deed to the good news of salvation both locally and globally. The local church enters into relationships with other like-minded churches for accountability, encouragement and mission.21
10. There shall be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; for the former, a resurrection unto life;22 for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment.23
Again, is it 'slavish idol worship' to take your faith seriously, according to scripture?
11. The second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is imminent and will be personal and visible.24 As the believer’s blessed hope, this vital truth is an incentive for holy living and sacrificial service toward the completion of Christ's commission.25
Here are the CMS references, gathered by the heremeutical methodology that is taught at Bible colleges all over the world:
1 Isa. 44:6; 45:5-6 (2) Matt. 5:48; Deut. 32:4 (3) Matt. 3:16-17; 28:19 (4) Phil. 2:6-11; Heb. 2:14-18; Col. 2:9 (5) Matt. 1:18; Luke 1:35 (6) 1 Cor. 15:3-5; 1 John 2:2; Acts 13:39 (7) Heb. 4:14-15; 9:24-28 (8) Matt. 25:31-34; Acts 1:11 (9) John 14:16-17 (10) John 16:7-11; 1 Cor. 2:10-12 (11) 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21 (12) Gen. 1:27 (13) Rom. 8:8; 1 John 2:2 (14) Matt. 25:41-46; 2 Thes. 1:7-10 (15) Titus 3:5-7; Acts 2:38; John 1:12; 1 Cor. 6:11 (16) 1 Thes. 5:23 (17) Acts 1:8 (18) Rom. 12:1-2; Gal. 5:16-25 (19) Matt. 8:16-17; James 5:13-16 (20) Eph. 3:6-12; 1:22-23 (21) Acts 2:41-47; Heb. 10:25; Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 1:8, 11:19-30; 15 (22) 1 Cor. 15:20-23 (23) 2 Thes. 1:7-10 (24) 1 Thes. 4:13-17 (25) 1 Cor. 1:7; Titus 2:11-14; Matt. 24:14; 28:18-20
Christian Missionary Alliance Statement of Faith
by Shining One 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
-
Shining One
-
OldSoul
Poor Shining One,
Why can't you move on to more fertile ground than picking on someone who at LEAST believes Jesus exists? Or is your doctrine to SHOVE everyone up to where you are, instantly? Do they risk you damning them all to hell if they don't jump when you tell them to?
You think YOU exemplify Christ in this forum? You impose your doctrines on jgnat, not the other way around. You insist that she is not a Christian, a role I believe Jesus reserves for himself. You want her to adhere to the equivalent of the "stone tablets" of her Church, when Christ forever freed her and everyone else from that bondage.
I really hope you look at what you have written here and become humbled. I don't often shame anyone here, but you are acting Pharisaical and doing it in the name of Christ. The Pharisees did it in the name of Moses. Do you think you are something?
OldSoul
-
Honesty
What is your point, Shining One?
-
jgnat
Boy, you descend to personal attack pretty fast when cornered. I am glad you are not my next-door neighbour. I have bent over backwards to respond to your accusations.
The Christian Missionary Alliance does not have a disfellowshipping policy, thank God. My dillemma and my questions are between me and my trusted leaders. I would not compromise or threaten the beliefs of my community. Not that ANY of this is your business. To be fair, I asked you to name YOUR denomination, which you have handily weaseled out of. If I were a betting woman, I would say you belong to NO church. You are too bull-headed for most congregations to tolerate. I met a self-appointed evangelist like you, right here in Edmonton. After insulting my husband's religion, drilling me on my spiritual status and passing on an unfounded rumor about my former congregation, he finally coughed up his curriculum vitae. He was "between churches", but he had helpfully provided his last pastor with a long list of doctrinal deficiencies before he left.
Why don't you respond to some of my ARGUMENTS? Please move your accusations to the original JGnat thread. All of my answers and reasoning is there. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/97962/1.ashx
-
ozziepost
And I think that's where this should end.
Both parties have made their statements.