Vain Words, Vain Babblings, Vain Janglings

@rajk999 said
I will stick with what Jesus preached, thank you.

@secondson said
Jesus read the Old Testament and quoted from it quite a bit.

But you probably didn't know that since you spend most of your time using vain words, babblings and janglings while you sing your one note song.

You are the most dishonest, evasive and self-diluted poster in this forum. And unless you're suffering from a massive head trauma I think you know it.

@rajk999 said
More childish insults and failure to explain your church doctrine properly. I pointed out to you where Paul said that there is no inheritance in the Kingdom of God for born again saved Christian Saints unless they live righteously and you are stumped.

I suggest you check on your own head trauma, and deal with the facts of the teachings of Christ and the Apostles instead of listening to the false doctrines of your church.

@rajk999 said
More childish insults and failure to explain your church doctrine properly. I pointed out to you where Paul said that there is no inheritance in the Kingdom of God for born again saved Christian Saints unless they live righteously and you are stumped.

I suggest you check on your own head trauma, and deal with the facts of the teachings of Christ and the Apostles instead of listening to the false doctrines of your church.

@caesar-salad said
Where is the love?

@rajk999 said
You come to a chess chat forum looking for love?

@Rajk999

You come to a chess chat forum looking for love?

On the more positive side of this matter, to speak the teaching and the fellowship of the apostles is quite good. The early church did just that. It was not a "Jerusalem's Got Talent" entertainment show of who could be the most original.

Quite profitable that -

"And they continued steadfastly in the teaching and the fellowship of the apostles, and in the breaking of bread and the prayers." (Acts 2:42)

I wonder if there were some moaners at some of the house gatherings complaining "We heard Peter and the eleven already say that, you copycat. Can't you say something more original? "

Latter, a model of overcoming Christian servants they saw in Paul and his team of co-workers. He reminded them not only of his teaching but even of his ways in Christ Jesus.

This was a continuation of continuing steadfastly in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles.

"Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church." ( 1 Cor. 4:17)

@sonship said
@Rajk999

You come to a chess chat forum looking for love?

And what would be wrong with that is ___________________?

@rajk999 said
Nowhere does the bible say to go looking for love neither to demand love from others. The appears to be a pastime of a church gone astray. Christians are commanded to show brotherly love and charitable love to those in need ie feed the poor, clothe the naked etc etc. Let me know if you want some passages since you seem to only know the mouth worshiping references.

@kellyjay said
God does command that we love one another, you feel you obey that command by treating people the way you do?

@rajk999 said
Love is defined in the bible as charitable love. It means giving and helping others. It is this one critical thing that Jesus will use to classify people as sheep or goats. The sheep are charitable and the goats are not.

Neither Jesus nor the Apostles tolerated false doctrines, and false teachers like you jokers. They were condemned in the strongest language imaginable.

@Rajk999

Eph_5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

1Ti 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
1Ti 1:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

1Ti_6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

2Ti_2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Copied from The Life Study of First Timothy by Witness Lee

B. Blinded with Pride

In 6:4 and 5 Paul says that the one who teaches differently and who does not consent to healthy words is “blinded with pride, understanding nothing, but is sick with questionings and contentions of words, out of which come envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions, perpetual wranglings of men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain.” Teachings differing from the healthy words of the Lord always issue from people’s pride with self-conceit which blinds them. Paul and his co-workers taught in a certain way. But some who were blinded with pride deliberately taught differently. To them, it was humiliating to teach the same as others. I can testify that when I was in China, I was very happy to teach the same thing as Brother Nee. As much as possible, I even used the same terms Brother Nee used, for I realized that in this way I was carrying out the Lord’s ministry.

In verse 4 Paul uses the expression “sick with questionings.” To question and contend about words is a sickness. “Sick” here is in contrast to “healthy” in verse 3.

The word revilings in 6:4 literally means blasphemies. As in Colossians 3:8, it refers here to revilings, railings toward man, not blasphemies toward God.

We have seen that in verse 5 Paul speaks of “perpetual wranglings of men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain.” The Greek for “perpetual wranglings” can also be rendered “incessant quarrels.” These wranglings are carried on by men corrupted and depraved in mind and deprived, bereft, destitute, of the truth. The Greek word for “deprived” implies that these are ones who once possessed the truth, but now it has been put away from them. Hence, they are destitute of the truth.

@sonship said
Paul says that the one who teaches differently and who does not consent to healthy words is “blinded with pride, understanding nothing, but is sick with questionings and contentions of words, out of which come envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions, perpetual wranglings of men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain.”