Details of the Lord’s Supper and carrying out general commands
Claim examined: Worship, music, and prayer
Scriptural Answer
You said: “My understanding of the new testament then is that I am saved by grace Also, I am to love God with all of me, and the same for my neighbor. If I am faithful in serving him, I will have eternal life. Having said that, because God did not say, do not use instruments, then I have the freedom to praise him, as much as I have the freedom to do in a building or a home. For the moment you say a church building is just an aid, you added to scripture. He did not command you to do it. So using your logic, you can't have it both ways. Just because in your mind it is an aid, does not give it a special release. BTW using a building alters sound, because of the acoustics, therefore singing with the voice is altered. Therefore one cannot sing to God in worship in this building. It does not give God the pure sound you seem to think he wants.” Please show me how when I say that a church building is an AID that I have added to scripture? Please show me how in my saying that a church building is an AID that I have changed the nature of the command to “assemble”? What am I adding? You said: “There is no double talk. It is my point that if God does not require it or if God does not disqualify it specifically, it is my choice to do it. Because I am not under any other law than to love him and love my neighbor. Your response leads me to believe the Christian has no liberty. That a christian is under the yoke of a law, albeit a new one that is just as choking as the old one. So Christ's death is now meaningless, we have to serve a new code.” So, what you are saying is because I teach that there are any rules or commandments we must follow except just to love God and your neighbor, I am putting a yoke on the neck of the Christian and the Christian has no liberty because of it? It would seem by your teaching that the grace of God will cover almost every sin except the sin of teaching that we are under obligation to obey the commandments of the Lord! You said: “This is the exact point I am trying to make to you [name omitted]. God's word does not say, so why are you trying to bind me with a law that says I have to refrain from instrumental music. God does not say it so why do I have to bow to it.” Who is trying to bind you to a law? Please tell me which law I am trying to bind you to? I said: “The Bible is a precise and calculated revelation:” To which you replied: “I say, no it is not. God leaves much in the new testament up to us.” Excuse me? Book, Chapter and Verse please? Then you said: “He tells us specifically to take the Lord's supper but gives us freedom as to how we do it. One cup or many. One prayer before or two, take as it is passed or in unison or when you are ready. All choices that God is not specific about. He tells us to worship, he does not tell us a specific order of service, how many songs to sing, how long the sermon or even how to preach. There are not total specifics.” Well now, you told earlier me that: “For the moment you say a church building is just an aid, you added to scripture.” But yet, you turn right around and instead of using the word “AID” for such things as Lord’s Supper etc., instead you substitute the word “freedom”? This being the case, then are you not ADDING to scripture? This sounds like to me that it is all right for you to have “freedom” in carrying out God’s general commands however, when I carry out God’s general command to “assemble” and I call it an AID, then you accuse me of ADDING to God’s word? Makes you wonder?
KJV Scriptures Used
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