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Great reply.  Speed limit.... oops!  Not paying taxes.....visit  you in
jail....   I agree.  (Altho I'm not sure about scripture which requires
Saints to obey  laws/taxes-speeding, etc.). >Charles L. Collins wrote:
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>> Interesting question regarding Pastor's  authority to lead others by his
>> advice.  Conversely,  is a pastor permitted to authorize himself and his
>> parishoners to ignore MAN'S LAW just because of being spirit filled??  What
>> are the limits of the ministry??  For example, someone mentioned in another
>> email comment about cocaine, earrings on men, etc.  What if a Pastor felt
>> that drug use was O.K. - can the ministry authorize ignoring MAN'S
>> LAW??????
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>As saints, we are supposed to obey all the laws of Man (including the speed
limit...oops!), and 
>every ordinance and commandmant set forth in the scriptures.
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>If a pastor say's it's ok to use cocaine, then he's wrong. Of course,
that's a legal issue 
>anyway, so of course we know that's wrong. Or if the pastor say's it's ok
to not pay taxes 
>because we are under God's law...well, I'll visit you in jail...we are to
obey every law set 
>forth by the state and the Word of God.
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>What I was saying that for a pastor to make a rule based solely on his
opinion is also wrong. 
>Certain pastor's don't like people wearing red because of what it used to
stand for, but does 
>that make it a sin? No, it's his/her opinion. A certain pastor says not to
each chocolate...does 
>that make chocolate a sin? Of course not...that would be ridiculous! My
point is, how far are 
>pastors allowed to go in making their personal opinion part of the
doctrine, thereby making many 
>people transgressors? Because while the chocolate bar is not a sin, the
disobedience definitely 
>borders on being a sin.
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>Are we just to obey the pastor whatever rule or ordinance he/she sets forth
that's not based on 
>the Bible? To me, that is going in the direction of a cult, and not a
Bible-believing church.
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