Hey Mark,
I agreed with your original post. I agreed with your reply to eagle.
But isn't this 2nd reply a little over the top? Yes, I agree the flaming sword represents Jesus. But if someone doesn't know that point, is that slandering the Good Name of God? Can anyone really slander or cause God harm? Do they not harm themselves? God will bring everyone around with correct knowledge.
I don't want to cause further hurt feelings. But I don't like to see spiking the football. You were right.
John
Hey John. Thanks for your post.
My second reply was more of a general thought in the matter and not solely aimed at eagle(my bad). To my own defense, my statement as quoted was "I see the Good Name of the Lord being slandered by the use of false doctrines
of men". It says of men and not eagle exclusively. I did direct my statement to eagle but in all fairness I was also directing it to you,me and anyone who would slander the Name of God. Hope that clears things up for you.
You ask can anyone really slander[defame] the Good Name of God? Well yes,we all can if we subscribe to the false doctrines of babylon. If you come right down to it, should we continue in the milk of His word or go on into the mature meat? As eagle stated himself, he has read Rays material and "agrees with all of it". Should I just assume then that what eagle posted is in alignment with Scripture and Rays teachings without the due process of further investigation? Should we then subscribe to that false notion without first
judging the spirit,from which it came?
As Kat previously stated "when you present a post on this forum you have to be ready to accept any of those critical responces". When someone posts something on the forum that goes against Scripture and what Ray has taught on,should we then overlook it and have the newcomers led astray by an evil report[slander]? I do not believe that would be something the body of Christ could, or should, approve of. Correction in the body is a necessary ingredient to bring the body in line with the head.
I do not take pleasure in correcting anyone,but,when the Word of God is being slandered under the falseness,of what babylon is,well,I can not just sit idly by without at least trying to help the brethren come to a truthful understanding based on what we all have learned through Scripture, bt, and these forums.
If I may, I would like to leave you with these verse, for your meditation, and hopefully, edification also.
Num 14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Num 14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Num 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Psa 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Pro 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Peace...Mark