The Rock

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

KATHLEEN DIMICK wrote:

> This is life eternal, that we know the only true God, EVEN Jesus Christ.
> 
> "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son
> of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe
> on the name of the Son of God."    (1 John 5:13 KJV)
> 
> "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
> understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is
> true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal
> life."    (1 John 5:20 KJV)
> I have watched this debate and tried to stay out of it in the hopes that 
Bro. Drost's good sense would prevail.  Belief and relationship can be 
separated. One who has the relationship has the belief, but one can have 
the belief without the relationship.

James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well: the 
devils also believe and tremble.

>From the point you have made, we would have to identify "devils" as 
brethren in the faith because they are Oneness. (Now I have met some 
Oneness devils in my time but that is another story.) 

The Rock our faith is built on is the God/Man Jesus, and it is His spirit 
that reveals to us the fact that he is one. To build on any doctrine runs 
the risk of mere assent , not belief.

In Christ.

p.s. Bro. Drost wrote:

That is the power that Jesus left to his church, not to Peter only, or 
the popes or the priests but to all believers.

Bro. Drost:

I have to disagree. I know two priests that have the power that Jesus 
left to his church. Ray and Laura. (My wife's Aunt and Uncle :-)