The thing is Randy, I rather doubt it is common for two individuals to believe the exact same about every subject.
Path and Individual...I am content with my chosen path, and know the effort, depth and distance I travel on the path. Sometimes I see a brother on the same path, Sometimes an individual genuinely pondering if they want to walk on the same path, Sometimes others running outside of the path shooting arrows at the straight path travelers....
No matter, they are already overcome. The Lord is With and In me, Fitted with the Armor of God, no worries!
Not a mystery to observe in the media, forums, in person “others intent” to gain a brother in Christ or “tactics” to shoot arrows at others who reject “following them”!
Those In Christ are already established and secure.
Regarding Precepts, love everyone, mingle with everyone, know who is your brother and know who is your enemy. Fellowship with your brethren. Pray for your brethren and enemies.
I get ya, mingling with an obtuse enemy runs its gambit rather quickly.
Glory to God,
Taken
Not quite the same mindset paul once had . His message was let their be NO , ZERO , as in none , divisions among you .
Be LIKE MINDED . Like minded about what , about just lovey and have us some unity . WRONG
about the doctrines JESUS delivered and the apostels delivered .
IT aint impossible for folks to come to the same conclusion about truth , about the words of the LORD about HIS teachings .
MEN say it is , but men are not GOD . I know of some who by the grace of GOD , the reading of the bible
are coming to FAST AGREEMENT of what they taught . THE KEY IS , do we heed men or do we heed GOD .
That BE THE KEY . IF we heed GOD , if we heed Christ , then why do we heed men who twist and omit
the plain truth in scriptures . VERY delusional times we live in .
The bible is our friend not an enemy which cannot be trusted lest a man reveal its truth to us .
If so , we are no better off than the CC or the JW or many within the protestant realm itself .
The bible aint a rubix cube that only scholars can understand .
How come so many often strive over words and meanings of words . WELL TO JUSTIFY a teaching that often does contradict
what the very scriptures in simplicity said . How come we cant just believe what was written , its not like
Ya GOTTA REMEMBER that if a man cometh and tries to teach us that certain things no longer apply , THEY DEAD WRONG .
IF i told you when paul said that we are not to lie to one another and then said , HEY that applied to only that generation
WOULDNT YOU KNOW i was a liar .
SO how come when folks say WOMEN OUGHT NOT to teach or ursurp authority
that paul himself did not allow women to lead the church
DO WE SO QUICKLY LISTEN TO THEIR BD .
OR if a man comes and tries to twist any other doctrine , WHY DO WE HEED IT .
I will tell us all why one heeds such a thing . THEY SERVE THE GOD OF FLESH . NOT GOD .
The bible , the letters written by the apostels were not written in a code that only scholars could grasp ,
THEY WAS WRITTEN TO SIMPLE MEN . OH HOW I pray folks figure that one out real fast .