Would you like to change your view?

[rlvaughn]

In another thread, FreeBaptist asked, Have you changed your view...

on a doctrine or ethical issue? I have done so with one in particular, just in the last year or so. But I don't think I can talk about it here. I really studied and researched it, and what I was once so certain about, now I am not. I was just wondering if anyone else had gone through this.

Thinking about this question brought to me another interesting question. Do you have a view you might like to change but the Bible won't let you?

Let me explain what I mean with an example. I ask that you consider and reply to the original question rather than debating the example. This is an attempt to explain what I mean. For long years I have had a preference for a cappella singing in church (i.e., voices only, no instruments). I love both the simplicity and beauty of it, and think it is sound and scriptural. However, I have been unable to convince myself that the Bible does not allow for the use of instruments in worship. If I could be convinced, then I could boldly teach that we should only sing a cappella and all would be well! But after almost forty years I still haven't been convinced, so I am forced to view this as a preference.

With that as an example of what I mean, "Do you have a belief or practice you might like to change, but the Bible won't let you?"

 

[Reformed]

In another thread, FreeBaptist asked, Have you changed your view...
Thinking about this question brought to me another interesting question. Do you have a view you might like to change but the Bible won't let you?

Let me explain what I mean with an example. I ask that you consider and reply to the original question rather than debating the example. This is an attempt to explain what I mean. For long years I have had a preference for a cappella singing in church (i.e., voices only, no instruments). I love both the simplicity and beauty of it, and think it is sound and scriptural. However, I have been unable to convince myself that the Bible does not allow for the use of instruments in worship. If I could be convinced, then I could boldly teach that we should only sing a cappella and all would be well! But after almost forty years I still haven't been convinced, so I am forced to view this as a preference.

With that as an example of what I mean, "Do you have a belief or practice you might like to change, but the Bible won't let you?"

Years ago, when I embraced Monergism, I wanted to become a paedobaptist. I admired how the theology of my Reformed Presbyterian brethren seemed to fit perfectly. I studied and prayed, prayed and studied. However, no matter how much I wanted to change, I was not persuaded by scripture. Believe and be baptized is the command.

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[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Well, I suppose I’ve always felt I could do without all those taxes “to Caesar.”
So, if anyone has any good scriptural arguments...

 

[ChurchofChristguy]

In another thread, FreeBaptist asked, Have you changed your view...
Thinking about this question brought to me another interesting question. Do you have a view you might like to change but the Bible won't let you?

Let me explain what I mean with an example. I ask that you consider and reply to the original question rather than debating the example. This is an attempt to explain what I mean. For long years I have had a preference for a cappella singing in church (i.e., voices only, no instruments). I love both the simplicity and beauty of it, and think it is sound and scriptural. However, I have been unable to convince myself that the Bible does not allow for the use of instruments in worship. If I could be convinced, then I could boldly teach that we should only sing a cappella and all would be well! But after almost forty years I still haven't been convinced, so I am forced to view this as a preference.

With that as an example of what I mean, "Do you have a belief or practice you might like to change, but the Bible won't let you?"

I don't think Christ was particularly concerned with policies and procedures in the assembly, one way or the other.

 

[FreeBaptist]

My situation was kind of the opposite to this. I had a view which I thought the Bible upheld, but on deeper research, I felt compelled to change it due to the Bible.