Read what this black African wrote and wonder:
Why Black People Have Remained Backward
www.DavidBenAriel.org
I was a member of the Philadelphia Church of God until I was disfellowshipped and marked for exposing politics at play against this laymember for writing Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall, even though I am not a minister and don't feel I need to be to use whatever talents God has given me for His Kingdom.
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These verses are similar to Proverbs 21:16. The person who is neglecting his salvation is not deliberately setting his mind to turn away from God or His way of life. He is simply, through neglect, allowing himself to drift in that direction. He does not plan to go that way. He gets distracted by things in his life—by hobbies, work, rearing children, and a great many other things. No matter what it is, he allows himself to neglect what has been given to him. The metaphor used here is of a boat that has slipped its mooring and is drifting within the harbor. Just drifting with the current. Both of these verses point to a major problem we see in the end-time church of God. We may call it Laodiceanism, and that is a very nice "tag" to put on it. We can comfortably say the word, but are we aware that a Laodicean is a drifter? A Laodicean is somebody who is hanging on to the best of both possible worlds as he sees it. He has one foot in the church and one foot in the world, and he does not realize that he is drifting. This is the kind of person that God says He finds unpalatable—one He will spit out of His mouth (Revelation 3:16). | |||
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Funny how you evangelicals, who only appeared on the scene a few decades ago, have all the answers.
Most of you have no formal education in philosohpy or religion, which makes you unqualified to talk about religion, much less preach it.