I found this helpful in regards to the social justice issue: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=egWi5VVFsTc

But I’d like to know when you would say the IFB church started. Can you name any church fathers that were IFB? Was Athanasius an IFB? Jerome? Augustine? Ignatius? Polycarp? Justin Martyr? Were the authors of the didache IFB? Hus? Wycliff? Tyndale? Luther? Knox?

@Gay, I think the social justice issue is another virus, and we have to realize that all denominations (Including the IFB) have their conservative people and liberals, and are struggling/battaling with certain issues.

So the question would be, have you denied yourself of all ungodliness? In deed, in your thoughts? Even one lustful thought would make you ineligible to ever receive the grace of elohim.

And you have to fulfill the greatest commandment, to love God with all your might, mind and strength, have you ever achieved this? If you’re honest you’ll say “no”

Ephesians 2:8-9 says,”For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

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But you brought up some interesting things but I want to focus on one:

1. If you love me keep my commandments

This is true, if we truly have been born again then we will have a Spirit filled desire to worship the one true God. (Deut. 6:4, Isaiah 41-45)

But here Christianity and Mormonism is already at tension, here’s why. In Mormon theology there are 3 gods for this universe and there are an innumerable amount of other gods outside our universe. (Teachings of the prophet JS, pgs. 369-370)

Yet the Bible teaches that there is only one God (Gen. 1:1 Deut 6:4, Isaiah 41:4, Mark 12:29-30)

And this ties directly into the gospel because here’s what the LDS scriptures teach:

2Nephi 25:23 says, “For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.”

Christians over yonder need our prayers and support during the continuing and increasing persecution.

Any pastor who is faithful to scripture is open to questions and challenges regarding his interpretation.

It seems that you believe that questioning and challenging a pastor on a certain issue cannot be done with humility, respect, submission, love, gentleness, and that the pastor cannot take it with the same attitude. And that it causes division, and somehow it sets me up as a higher authority than him.

“If he = Taught and Johnny Mac = Teacher, he reserves the right to analyse Johnny's teaching (and correct him) and proclaim himself higher in knowledge than Johnny, because he as Connor knows far more than Johnny Mac and ought himself (Connor) to be in the Teaching position and Johnny Mac can be in the Taught position.”

I am Reformed, all 5 points, etc. but my fellow Calvinists needs to cut it out, be watchful, be humble, cut the “I’m going to be a cool Calvinist” and actually be willing to say that MacArthur, White, Durbin, Molher, Phil Johnson, Lawson, etc. aren’t infallible and that you can rightfully disagree with them and point out their errors in a humble manner.

And to realize that Beer and pipes ain’t going to win them brownie points in Heaven and they aught to be willing to stop the use of them for the sake of Christian unity.

And I’m not a KJVonlyist (neither were the apostles, early church fathers, Hus, Wycliffe, Luther, Tyndale, Erasmus, Baza, the KJV translators, Whitefield, Brainerd, Edwards, C. Wesley, Knox, MLJ, etc.) so we’re not all in the “WE TRUE KING JAMES HOLY BIBLE ONLY BORN-AGAIN
CHRISTIAN-CATHOLICS-/-PROTESTANTS-/-INDEPENDENTS”