Scott – You said
As evidenced in frugalmom's post above, there is some obviously agressive replies when a few people are accused of lifting one man above all others. Nobody has answered the question: "AGAIN, does anybody here really think that Enyart's knowledge as revealed in "The Plot" is infallible?".
Yet I
previously said
I believe that Bob’s approach aligns itself with “the” single way that God intended us to approach His word. That is not to say that Bob’s teaching is 100% inerrant, but is the right and biblically intended path which provides a significant improvement in biblical conformity which can transform bible teachings from being more tentative and philosophically based, into being solid like a rock.
You also said
I'd like to put this forth for you all. I will comment no further on this point because I think that my opinion will do no good after this.
Godly love casts out fear, and that which is good should remain in our thinking and full acceptance. If your opinion is good, you should expect it to be honored and accepted. But I think you may be right to be skeptical therein.
But more to the point, no one has suggested that Bob’s knowledge or teaching is infallible so your question is rather besides the point.
Hero worship based on aggressiveness and rudeness.
It is rude of you to make such blanket statements without being so kind as to specify examples justifying your remarks. And how it was that you mistook not a single implication that Bob’s thinking is inerrant, as somehow implying that he is granted hero worship like as though he is inerrant? Doesn’t that make you into the one who is believing and trusting in that which is false and should stand corrected? Enough said on that, take it for what it is worth.
As to following after and honoring one teacher or another, Paul was not saying not to follow after one teacher and not another, he says that we should follow Paul’s example, not Peters and the others. He does not want us to brake the unity that we have in Christ.
1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed,
as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and
each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Paul teaches that his converts are his and should follow after him.
Ga 4:18 But
it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. 19
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
1Th 5:12 And we urge you, brethren, to
recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Paul is the first, as a pattern for all unto salvation, after him (in this dispensation).
1Ti 1:16 However, for this reason
I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering,
as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
And when the circumcision became a problem amongst the uncircumcision, Paul never let them rule over us, he always placed his teachings above theirs for us in this dispensation.
I agree with godrulz to an extent, there is no need to be condescending or rudely offensive as we grow in Christ, unless it is the godly thing to do. See the bible for details, like open rebuke as being better than carefully concealed love, that rebuke is the first step in the redemptive process of forgiveness, that abhorrence of evil is what keeps our love from being the sin of hypocrisy.
Making baseless or ambiguous charges against the saints is not what should typify the righteous. Deal honestly and uprightly, not pretending to carefully conceal a matter so that a fitting defense or correction may be made.
(The spirit of these objections is so common (if not memorable) it is remarkable.)
