As have I.
You just put a spin on it to fit your presuppositions.
Harry
Chad Richard Bresson <breusswane@...> wrote:
Whether or not Christians are forgetful hearers is irrelevant to James'
intent. You're taking what you know from experience (Christians are
forgetful hearers) and jamming it into the verse.
I'll let James speak for himelf.
--
Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
Clearcreek Chapel
Springboro, OH
http://breusswane.blogspot.com
On 3/24/06, H Dorrington wrote:
>
> Do you deny the fact that Christians are often forgetful hearers?
>
> Your church has preached on tithing and now every Christian there gives
> 10% all the time? Your church has preached sermons mentioning certains sins
> which everyone now totally avoids? Your church has preached on faith and
> now no one there ever has any doubts? Is this an illustration of the clergy
> - laity distinction in that the clergy lacks all reality regarding the laity
> to suffer their point?
>
> Harry
>
> Chad Richard Bresson
wrote:
> I don't have time for Hermeneutics 101. My guess is that we would disagree
> on the nature of the warnings in Hebrews as well.
>
> Paul and the NT authors always wrote to the visible church, among whom sat
> goats. Those *addressed* and those *described* may or may not be one and
> the same.
>
> Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
> Clearcreek Chapel
> Springboro, OH
> http://breusswane.blogspot.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "H Dorrington"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [soundofgrace] Acts 6 and deacons
>
>
> >I am still in the first chapter which he addresses to "my brethern" so
> yes
> >he is desribing Christians which are often "forgetful hearers." Unless
> you
> >think the problem with the church today is strictly poor preaching since
> >none of the Christians are ever "forgetful hearers" and all are doers?
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > Chad Richard Bresson
> wrote:
> > James was not writing about Christians as "forgetful hearers". We must
> > interpret the text as James intended. The forgetful hearers are one and
> > the
> > same as "enemies of God" (James 4:4). The forgetful hearers are those
> > whose
> > "faith is dead" (James 2:17). Theirs is a worthless religion (1:26).
> >
> > Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
> > Clearcreek Chapel
> > Springboro, OH
> > http://breusswane.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "H Dorrington"
> > To:
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [soundofgrace] Acts 6 and deacons
> >
> >
> >> LOL! How can the dichotomy now be "irrelevant to the discussion"? Are
> you
> >> now also trying to say that Christians are never forgetful hearers and
> >> only the damned are? Some spin I guess is needed to cancel the
> difference
> >> between understanding Scripture and taking it the next step and putting
> >> it
> >> into action!
> >>
> >> Harry
> >>
> >> Chad Richard Bresson
> > wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "H Dorrington"
> >>> the forgetful hearers and the blessed doers. Both have heard but only
> >>> one
> >>> set puts it into action.
> >>
> >> This is irrelevant to the discussion. The blessed will always *do*. The
> >> damned will always *forget*.
> >>
> >> Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
> >>
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