SHOULD WE CHECK OUR DENOMINATIONS FOR TRUTH?

What they decided about bible interpretation is the subject I am referring to, I don't think the name of the councils makes any difference.

Just think of the power it would gain if we accepted the simple truths given in the feasts, as just one small example.

Only the Catholic and Orthodox churches pay attention to what happened in these councils. So you need not concern yourself with that, but you have bigger issues. If those churches were wrong so is your idea of reverting back to the Old Covenant when it suits you.


You mentioned observing the feasts of Israel. Well without the temple, the Levitical priesthood, the temple sacrifices, and all the trappings of the Old Covenant, observing those feasts would be a TOTAL SHAM. And several of those feasts have already seen their fulfillment. Once something is fulfilled, it must not be revived.

So what you are telling Christians is to focus on the types and shadows in spite of the fact that Christ is the reality who fulfilled the Law. Which makes you an enemy of God and Christ.

Once something is fulfilled, it must not be revived.

Only the Catholic and Orthodox churches pay attention to what happened in these councils. .

What about them animal sacrifices? They were fulfilled, WHY are they coming back in the millennium? If I recall you was of that view!

What is your understanding of the law?

I am speaking of following scripture! What does scripture say about animal sacrifice, for goodness sakes. In Hebrews it also tells us of what is obsolete, and didn't Christ make animal sacrifice obsolete?

What about them animal sacrifices? They were fulfilled, WHY are they coming back in the millennium? If I recall you was of that view!

In Hebrews it tells us that the first covenant is obsolete... the whole thing.

Heb 8:13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

In Hebrew it does NOT tell us that all the covenants are dissolved, or in your word "the whole thing".

It tells us the old covenant is obsolete. It is not obsolete, all that God spoke to us, that is to deny God. God tells us that we receive the Holy Spirit, all of us, as His way of communicating with us, it is obsolete that God communicates through physical acts such as fleshly circumcision. That is obsolete. As an example. God did not take back and cancel anything of God as "the whole thing" implies. God is eternal, His words are eternal.

We know many of our churches today are not giving us truth because there is only one truth, yet many differences in our church’s teaching.

In my search for the true church, I went back to the beginning of our church denominations. There is very little information about the denomination Christ set up except it was called The Way. It only lasted about 500 years. I found only one document about it outside of scripture, it was a report given to Rome by a man sent to research it for an Emperor. The reporter said that members cared and supported each other and he found no fault in it.

The next information on our church’s history was also a history of Constantine. Much of what Constantine wrote is preserved so we can know about this man. He was not a Christian for he had his wife killed and had coins printed of his God who was the sun. Yet, with politics in mind he established our church of today. His goal was to unify the Christian church, make it the state religion, and to do that he felt it needed to exclude any Jewish ideas, he calling Jews demons. Christians are told not to do this.

Every year after this council met in about 325 that set up the church there was a council of the Catholic church under the pope. The decisions of these councils are still felt today and each one was in opposition of the ways of the Jews. The Jews did not recognize the new covenant so many things the Jews practiced are not following God’s plan for us. But this opposition to the Jews means they threw out much of God’s instruction. All our holidays that Jews practiced were tossed and secular holidays replaced them, with a twist to them to make them sound Christian. Fleshly circumcision and diet restrictions was tossed, and these fleshly instructions were rightly tossed. Prayers the Jews had that had been God inspired were all tossed. The idea of scripture all being in agreement was tossed. The people who God used to explain His principles lived so many centuries ago, with different understandings and language so it is hard to understand God principles in the OT. God hid ancient writings that bridge that gap in the deep-sea scrolls, and our scholars are digging this information out. It has resulted in some changes in today’s church, now it listens closer to scripture as the OT gives us God principles.

Just as in Christ’s day, Christ was not accepted by many, today much of the idea of listening to OT scripture is not accepted. I think that should change. When we read in the NT of God using water to teach us, we need to go to the OT to understand this use of water. God said we were to always, forever, honor Passover and we tossed it, I think in error. As examples. We need a better understanding of the new covenant, OT scripture must agree with it.

I didn't use the words "all the covenants" and I did not use the word "dissolved". Once again, do not waste your time with paraphrasing my words, because you always get it wrong.


Which part of the old covenant is not obsolete, when the word clearly tells us that it is obsolete? You are attempting a fallacy of equivocation, and it is not valid.

The whole old covenant is obsolete. Stop fighting it.

God is perfect and holy we are not to discard any of God, even what God replaced so the old is obsolete. We are not to use the replacements God made for us, the fulfillment of OT symbolism, as an excuse to discard what is not replaced.

Once again, in English this time?

You conflate recognizing that the old covenant is obsolete with discarding part of God? Um, no.

That is not what scripture tells us. Scripture speaks often about hearing the word. Even the Lord's Prayer speaks of this, daily we ask for our daily bread. That bread is not only food, it is the words of the Lord.

It is a shame that Christians who ask Christ to come into their hearts do not want to follow Him in living in such a way that is most pleasing to the Lord as Christ did. You would think, if they accept Christ as their savior and accept His righteousness that their life would center around learning all about their God. Instead they spend their time patting themselves on the back, saying they have all the truth even though they are human who do not have truth within them, it is truth through Christ.

So discarding what is given by God has nothing to do with discarding God? I don't think so. All God tells us in holy, including that we now have the blood of Christ and should use that and not the symbolic blood of animals. We have the Holy Spirit and should use that instead of diet and fleshly circumcision to guide us to truth. Scripture tells us to learn from ALL of it.

Only his sheep hear his voice