Please recommend Bible teachers?

No, not at all. You replied respectfully.

When you have supporters who like whatever you post, over time, you are being positively reinforced into such behavior.

I think that was what happened now, that may not have happened in the past.

Yes I would agree with this. Truth is something that sets you free as it touches your heart but trying to hammer it dogmatically causes people to resist. Waste of time.

Pick out the signal from the noise . For example you could actually start believing false systematic theology simple from a book recomendation. I believe that most who are attached to a particular ' ism ' ( no names mentioned ) have done so through outside sources before they read and understood the bible . I speak from experience when I say this.

This is why the life of the teacher is so important. If they are purely academic with no power of the Holy Spirit then what good has all their learning accomplished in their lives. I think I would rather emulate a prophet than a scholar but that's just me.

The bench mark for me is quickly recognising there theology starting points and influences . Unless we ourselves arrive at conclusions then we are simply giving over our sense making to others . Theirvcharacter and conduct could sway us either way also .

Of course, even our conclusions, if widely received by others will be in danger of turning into another 'ism'.

Yes, it's Article on Justification is without equal... http://bookofconcord.org/defense_4_justification.php
Some of it's other sections, meh.

Lafftur has come up with some serious errors in what she posts also. And the Holy Spirit does not make any such errors.

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actually God is constrained by His own words

the expression 'don't put God in a box', is not an excuse for 'anything goes' and while I am not saying you believe anything goes, far too many people do and that is a problem all of us should be concerned with

people have a very good reason to be concerned over 'what not to do' as you put it, when you examine such churches that teach outside of scripture, state that new revelations go beyond scripture and actually practice occultic things

is that his site? we are not allowed to link to personal sites in the forum. but you prob know that

that would be the reason for the fuss

what I find particularly disingenuous is the fact she continues to claim false conclusions by ignoring what some of us post and she did this in the other thread as well

but as far as black and white error goes, take for example her claims about demons (which came up in the other thread). she states they are all knowing about the future and that is an example of supposed knowledge she has received which is not in scripture

some people are unteachable

It is very rare -- in fact non-existent -- for anyone to frankly and honestly admit that they have made an egregious blunder, and it's time to shape up (or ship out). I guess this goes all the way back to Adam and Eve blaming everyone but themselves for their own disobedience. But Christians should know better.

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look at Paul. when Christ met him on the road to Damascus, he had to do a complete 180. while our life changing moments as Christians may not be that dramatic, God will show us our errors. there was one thing in particular some years back I had been taught and I kept thinking 'how is that right? all the evidence seems to point to a different conclusion:

well, finally God put me in touch with an excellent Bible teacher, Derek Prince actually, who illustrated from scripture that the conclusions of so many were very wrong. it was a turning point in my life and very helpful

also, it does help to humble yourself when many keep telling you that you are wrong and show you from scripture that what you say is not biblical. I don't think anybody gets a kick out of showing someone they are wrong. it is concerning when error is heaped upon error and people act out of that error

so we have error of omission and the error of adding to the Bible

Yes it is.