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Christmas truly has some fantasic miracles around it.

Supernatural stars, Virgin Births, Chiors of Angels...

Am fantastical as these events sound, we must rember than none of them are alerogory or myth - they are actual history, miracles of God that really happened.

There is a different between fact and fantasy.

These events sound fantastical but they are fact.

B ut what about the other side of the coin?

What about things that sound like fact but actually fantasy?

Things which many people and many chritsians believe to be true, but are not?

There are 2 words in this pasage I wasnt to draw your attendtoin to:

Doctrine and Fable.

What is Doctrine?

Dctrine is a beliefe that based and grounded firml;y in Scripture.

Things we believe, not because we were taught them by man, but because we were taught them by the Holy Spiorit though the Wor - man may have help us understand, but it was a john the baptist encounter, like John only pointed to Jesus, so pastors can and should point to doctrine.

A fable is simply the opposite, its a teaching or concept that has very little to no scriptual support, and the in time where there is support - the scripotures hgave to be butchered to make it work.

Doctrine edifies the christian and draws them closer to Goid.

fables cause nothig but division and confusion.

Let me tell you what i include in the fables catagory: Things the bible calls disputible matters:

So let us settle some things today, let us put everything in its right catagory.

1: The Fable - God hates sin but loves the sinner.

This one you hear all the time.

It is very common, and its simplty not true.

It is said to make people wgo are guilty feel better about themselves.

There is no a single shred of scriptual eviudence for this fable.

However, `doctrine says:

2: The Doctrine - God loves you but as a sinner his wrath rests upon you.

The bible clearly tells us that Goid wrath and anger is NOT directed at sin BJUT at the sinner.

It is clear, God hates sin, yes, but his wrath is firmly fixed MOT on the sin but on the sinner.

We do not punish murder, murderers.

We do not punush rape, but rapists.

1: The Fable - The Bible contains the word of God

This is a view held by many religious sects.

Somwehere in the bibkle is the Words of God.

And whatb they like to do is the parts they dont like, they remove or reject, saying that those parts are NOT trhe word of God.

7th day adventists reject most of Pauls writing, they also reject all words in the gospels that Jesus did not say.

Mormons believe that the bible is incompltete and the writing of Joseph Smith make it compltete.

Not once in all scripture do we even get a hint of any of these fables.

In Fact:

2: The Doctrine - the Bible IS the Word of God.

Every single word in this book is the very words of God spoken to us.

The bible is compltete.

Nothing new can be added and not a single verse should be taken away.

1: The Fable - You can keep sinning and God will forgive you.

This is a favorite of the false christian.

Most church’s are made up of this kind of so cvalled christian.

No repentance at all, just lots of noise and load worship and all is well.

Being a christian is not about living holy or being obedient, its just about having relationship with Jesus.

However

2: The Doctrine: If you keep sinning you were never forgiven in the first place and if you were then you have fallen awayt from the faith

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The Disputible:

This is just the smallest sampeing of false fables, but other than fables there are the disputible things that bring no edifiction gto the church,n only division.

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Thesen things are issues which we know are to be true, because the bible says so, but the bible gives us very little or no deep insight within the issue.

Its a mysry known onmy to God.

We certaninly do not have sufficient scriptual evidence for form a doctrine aboout it so we leave it open to God.

Now its fine to draw your own conclusions on the matter, thats fine - but they, because they are NOT based in solid exegitical scripture are just OPINIONS.

Yes many people would seem wise aurguing these things, biblically it is pure imature foolishness.

Foer example:

The nature of the ressurected body.

This question has been aksed since the begining.

The answer is we do not know what kind of body it will be.

We know it will be like Christs ressurected body.

and based on that we know that it is an actual body NOT a spirit body.

But other than that we know nothing - yet people love to urgue over this.

Another point of muchg aurguing is:

The details aboout our existance pre-ressurection.

Here is what we know: We know that when we die as christian we go straight to paradice.

But we also know that the ressurection of the dead has not taken place and will opnly take place at the rapture.

So what state, what consciencess do the disembodies Spirits of dead christians have now while in paradice without their body?

We have not got a clue.

Are they conscience, what level of conscience do they have?

That they exist in a pure spiritual relm not bound to space and time like the physical, does that mean thet they even experience time at all?

Is the duration of them in paradiuce the pasing of seconds or is it the passing of biblical seasons?

We do not know - and to aurgue about these things is the hight of spiritual immaturity and foolishness.

Stick to scripture!!!!!