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What do you do with this command?

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may BE PERFECT, throughly furnished unto all good works.(2 Ti 3:16-17).

One of the best ways of being perfect, is to expose false teachers like Angus Buchan and yourself so that people may escape your false teachings, and maybe even hell.

Jan Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
 
A quote from his book: “One Thing Needful”

The great number of teachers is the reason of the multitude of sects, for which we shall soon have no names left. Each church reckons itself as the true one or at least the purest, truest part of it, while among themselves they persecute each other with the bitterest hatred. No reconciliation is to be hoped for between them; they meet enmity with irreconcilable enmity. Out of the Bible they forge their different creeds; these are their fortresses and bulwarks behind which they entrench themselves and resist all attacks. I will not say that these confessions of faith – for that they are so we can admit in most cases – are bad in themselves. They become so, however, in that they feed the fire of enmity; only by putting them away altogether would it be possible to set to work on healing the wounds of the Church… To this labyrinth of sects and various confessions another belongs; the love of disputation.

What is attained by it? Has a single learned strife ever been settled? Never. Their number has only been increased. Satan is the greatest sophist; he has never been overcome in strife of words…In divine service the word of men is usually heard more than the Word of God. Each one chatters as he pleases or kills time by learned disquisitions and disproving the views of others. Of the new birth and how man must be changed into the likeness of Christ to become partaker of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), scarcely anything is said. Of the power of the keys the Church has almost lost the power of binding, only the power of loosing remains…The sacraments, given as symbols of unity, of love and of our life in Christ, have been made the occasion of bitterest conflict, a cause of mutual hatred, a center of sectarianism….

In short, Christendom has become a labyrinth. The faith has been split into a thousand little parts and you are made a heretic if there is one of them you do not accept…What can help? Only the one thing needful; return to Christ, looking to Christ as the only Leader, and walking in His footsteps, setting aside all other ways until we all reach the goal, and have come to the unity of the faith (Eph 4:13). As the Heavenly Master built everything on the ground of the Scriptures, so should we leave all particularities of our special confessions and be satisfied with the revealed Word of God which belongs to us all. With the Bible in our hand we should cry: I believe what God has revealed in this Book; I will obediently keep His commands; I hope for that which He has promised. Christians, give ear! There is only one Life, but Death comes to us in a thousand forms. There is only one Truth, but Error has a thousand forms. There is only one Christ, but a thousand Antichrists…So thou knowest, O Christendom, what is the one thing needful. Either now turnest back to Christ or thou goest to destruction like the antichrist. If thou art wise and wilt live, follow the Leader of Life.

“But you, Christians, rejoice in your being caught up,…hear the words of your Heavenly Leader, ‘Come unto Me.’…Answer with one voice, ‘Even so, we come’.” 

Luke. Exactly! And that’s the whole problem. Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists, and many other Christian groups all use the same creed. It’s a nice tool to promote ecumenism. Can you show me in the creed where the Gospel is presented clearly?

Hi all, thanks for this article,
Die NG kerk en die Herformde kerk (wat ook deel is van die “Reformasie”) het dieselfde geloofsbeleidenis as die een wat oom Angus graag aflees, met slegs een verskil: in plaas van “holy catholic church” se hulle “heilige algemene christelike kerk”… Die pous en/of oom Angus kan dit moontlik sien as n uitnodiging tot eenheid. Pous is n voorstaander van n “algemene” kerk.
. groete

Jy is baie reg. Die NG Kerk het daardie geloofsbelydenis by die Roomse Katolike Kerk gekry. Die Roomse Katolieke gebruik mos ‘n “rosery” kraletjies om hulle aan gebede te herhinder. die belangrikste gebed is die GeloofsBelydenis. Woord vir Woord soos hy in hierdie kerke gebruik word. MAW dis ‘n roomse Katoliekegebruik die NG kerk is n susterskerk van Rooms. baie van hul gebruike

Ahhh how sweet Vanessa Moroldo, you quote a Catholic monk’s devotional, who nogal claims his words are Christs. How fitting for this article.

Son, be not moved with the fine and subtle sayings of men, for the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.  
1 Corinthians.  4; 20 

Attend to My words, which inflame the heart and enlighten the mind, which excite to compunction and afford manifold consolations.
Never read anything that you may appear more learned or more  wise. Study rather to mortify your vices, for this will
avail you more than the knowledge of many hard questions.

When you have read and shall know many things, you must always return to one beginning.

I Am He Who teaches men knowledge, and I give a more clear understanding to little ones than can be taught 
by man.  Psalm 94; 12. Luke 18: 15 -17;

He to whom I speak will quickly be wise, and will make great progress in spirit.
Woe to them that inquire of men after many curious things, and are little curious of the way to serve Me.  
Luke 18: 9 – 14.

The time will come when Christ, the Master of masters, the Lord of angels, shall appear to hear the lessons of all men,
that is to examine the consciences of every one. 

And then He will search Jerusalem with candles and the hidden things of darkness shall be brought to light  – 
1 Cor. 4; 5.

I am He that in an instant elevates a humble mind to comprehend more reasons of the eternal truth than could be 
acquired by ten years of study in the schools. 

I teach without noise of words, without confusion of opinions, without ambition of honour, without contention 
of arguments.

I teach to despise earthly things, to loathe things present, to seek and relish things eternal, to flee honours, to endure
scandals to repose all hope in Me, to desire nothing out of Me, and above all things, ardently to love Me.

For a certain person, by loving Me entirely, learned divine things and spoke wonders.
He profited more by forsaking all things than by studying subtleties.

But to some I speak things common, to others things more particular; to some I sweetly appear in signs and figures,
to others in great light I reveal mysteries.

The voice of the books is the same, but it teaches not all men alike; because I within Am the teacher of truth, the
searcher of hearts, the discerner of thoughts, the promoter of actions, distributing to everyone as I judge fitting. 

The Imitation of Christ. –  Book 3: Chapter 43.
By THOMAS  À  KEMPIS

Hi Vanessa, You have quoted a lot of passages from Scripture. The question, however, is, what do you believe? For instance, you said “No one is able to deceive the Elect, the Children of God,” What do you mean by that?