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That's not all the Bible says to do. That is a gross oversimplification.

Do you have any idea what "personal" means? Did I call someone by name?

The human race is evil and ignorant without Christ. You disagree with that??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Seriously!?!?!

 

Precisely. It was an interpretive error on his part. He thought the Bible taught that he was supposed to do it.

His problem was that he never learned how to rightly divide the word of truth.

He knew nothing of hermeneutics. That's what killed him.

Who said I see a command. You do not read very well do you? My whole point is that it is NOT commanded. Work on your comprehension skills please.

Heresy which was the result of his lack of education.

Yes, education DOES do exactly that.

In other words, darkness killed him. What he needed was light. Humbling, enlightening light. Another word for light is the knowledge of the truth. You are TAUGHT that by the Body of Christ from the Word of God.

 

Everything is appointed. That doesn't mean we don't try to find out immediate causes.

Do we look at millions of children dying in Africa and just say, "Well, it was their time to die! Oh WELL!! No need to try to find out what's killing them."

No. We find out immediate causes and we answer God's call to help them. That's what we do.

We should do the same with Coots. What REALLY killed this man? Saying a snake killed him is a gross oversimplification. It's like not hunting for a shooter who murdered someone because you conclude a bullet killed his victims.

Ignorance killed Jamie Coots. The snake was just the murder weapon.

But arrogance is what KEPT Coots ignorant. The kind of arrogance that keeps a man from looking outside his holler for more information and help in text interpretation. "I don't need no help. The Holy GHOST done spoke to me!!"

That kind of arrogance is killing Christianity in America as dead as it killed Coots.

There are NUMEROUS people on this very SITE who are that arrogant. People who thumb their noses at books and colleges and seminaries. People who think God speaks to them and that they don't NEED any instructors.

And people like me who call them on it are the ones called arrogant because people are so ignorant they don't even know what true arrogance is. They are wrong on just about everythign.

Humility says, "Ok, this is what this text seems to mean to me. But what have many other Christians thought it meant throughout two thousand years of Church History and why did they think that. I want their help. I may not agree but I am not God and I need the Body of Christ."

That's humility.

Arrogance, the kind that killed Coots, says, "I don't need no stinkin' books!! I don't need no stinkin counsel! Da Holy Ghost done TOLD me what it means!!!"

That's what killed him.

That kind of arrogance is an immeasurably more potent poison and far more prevalent than the venom of the snake that bit him.

 

Precisely.

Nope. It's just another example of how stupid people can't understand it.

 

Light dispels darkness. Light is the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Christian education is the impartation of that knowledge.

Blind people cannot see it- true. But it does not change the fact that it is the cure. That's what the Bible plainly teaches.

 

Yea, but Winman, its more complex than that. God's will is more complex than that. That's why you can't get it, Bud. Simple minds cannot consume complex ideas.

I'd try to explain the thing about different wills in God again to you, but you won't get it. Its like trying to explain calculus to a five year old. You are not a Calvinist because Arminianism, on the surface, is simple. That's all you can handle.

 

No, Bud. You are the one who thinks he needs no instructors. You are the one who does not care about what Bible believing Christians have thought for two thousand years. I DO care about those things. I try my thoughts by theirs.

You don't.

So you are quite LITERALLY the one who thinks "only YOU know God's mind."

He was told by people in some backwater holler that were disconnected from the larger body of Christ just like you. He, like you, did not see the value of a multitude of counselors. He, like you thought that God spoke to him and told him what the Bible meant.

He and you have a lot in common.

What I have done is study outside the tiny isolated world in which I was raised. I have sought the help of the larger Body of Christ. I have cared what Christians outside of backwater IFB movements have thought about texts of Scripture. You have not. You are limited to Sword of the Lord type literature and your very poor handling of the Scripture (King James at that because you espouse another backwater doctrine known as KJVO like Jamie Coots did).

You are a trip.