Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel – Heresy | Rapp Report Daily 0145 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Looking at the Statement on Social Justice and the
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- Gospel available to be read in detail or signed at statementonsocialjustice .com
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- This is article number 9, topic Heresy. We affirm that heresy is a denial of or departure from a doctrine that is essential to the
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- Christian faith. We further affirm that heresy often involves the replacement of key essential truths with various components or the elevation of non -essentials to the status of essentials.
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- To embrace heresy is to depart from the faith once delivered to the saints and thus to be on a path toward spiritual destruction.
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- We affirm that the accusation of heresy should be reserved for those departures from Christian truth that destroy the weight -bearing doctrines of the redemptive core of Scripture.
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- We affirm that accusations of heresy should be accompanied with clear evidence of such destructive beliefs.
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- We deny that the charge of heresy can legitimately be brought against every failure to achieve perfect conformity to all that is implied in sincere faith in the
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- Gospel. This article is saying that we should not be quick to say someone is a heretic or believing in heresy.
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