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THE WORLD"Farther still, the
whole Pythagoric school
produced by certain
appropriate songs, what
they called exartysis, or adaptation;
synarmoge, or elegance of
manners; and epaphe, or contact,
usefully conducting the
dispositions of the soul to passions contrary to those which it
before possessed.
The "Stone" term intends to say that what became The
Churches of Christ sected out of the Disciples/Christian
churches. Of course, there was nothing in common between the
two groups at the time and the NACC or Christian Churches
sected out of the Disciples from 1927 until 1971 when they
were de-listed. That was the time the Christian Churches
began "unity" efforts intended to convert everyone
to their musical apostasy. The modern Cabal of hermeneuts
has at its core an
emerging church which MERGES with their sponsor: the Disciples of Christ and
the NACC. Of
course, it is important to use music which means "to
make the lambs dumb before the slaughter" to prevent
hearing the text
in song or sermon:
Because THE meaning of turning to Hermes (pagan Logos) instead of Christ in the prophets and apostles has at its CORE imposing INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC into the School of the Word, Blowers and everyone would truly be amazed (or not) if they discovered that the Church Fathers and reformers were faithful to the Scriptures by denying any role for self-speakers, singers or instrument players whom Jesus marked as hypocrites. He might be amazed that the eucharistic concept is "giving thanks" and not participating in the perpetual shedding of the blood of Jesus. Consistent with all ReligionHoods, Hermes is also the mark of the gender confused. Moving rebuttal to false teachings further down, we are happy to append the latest fad from a Nashville church:
Thou has Turned My Mourning into Dancing. Perhaps by God's design, they didn't read enough to understand that this is the GENDER mark well documented by Christ in Isaiah 3.
Stone Campbell Hermeneutics John Mark Hicks
A World History of the Stone-Campbell Movement
This is an effort funded by the Disciples to promote the new Stone Campbell Sect. It is a fact that what became Churches of Christ were NEVER joined to the Disciples of Christ-Christian churches. The major shift away for a fraternal relationship but never a union was the Millerite influence which caused the Disciples to form a society to SAVE THE JEWS in Jerusalem to make it possible for Jesus to return.
1831 DISCUSSION OF UNITY
http://www.piney.com/Barton.W.Stone.Alexander.Campbell.Union.html
This is the "pre fabled union" in 1831: the denial of any kind of "union" in the Lunenburg quote was in 1837. Without passing judgment one way or another, the Reformers saw the Disciples as just another denomination, and saw Barton W. Stone bent on forming a NEW INCLUSIVE denomination. Garrison proposed to include ALL OF CHRISTENDOM. That is why the Disciples have reached a dead end. Theologians have a problem recognizing irony by Campbell or Paul
Among the Greeks it was widely taught that rhetoricians, poets and music must not be permitted to write about true history. It was ok to lie about history when entertaining (only) but never in the schools or called assemblies (ekklesia).
THE 1832 UNITY MEETING J.F.BURNETT Stone and the Disciples of Christ (Reformers then)
1834 In The Christian Messenger for November, 1834, is quoted an article from the Millennial Harbinger (Campbell's paper) as follows:
1837 Jenning, Walter W., Origin and Early History of the Disciples of Christ, p. 196, Standard
This was Leroy Garrett's effort to deny the Church of Christ's view of authority, baptism and instrumental music. It has become the DOGMA of the Church Planting Cult intending to plant INSTRUMENTAL churches since the "unity meeting fable" has been put down. Because these people do not want the truth to be told they PLANT themselves as scholars in once-Christian Bible Colleges turned "universalists."
In previewing A World History of the Stone-Campbell Movement "history" we have shown that the Campbells had roots in John Calvin who proposed the Restoration of the Church of Christ.
The Disciples of Christ are funding a team to write a World History of the Stone Campbell Movement.
Real true history will show that Churches of Christ are what they are in many respects based on John Calvin's proposal to Restore the Church of Christ. Campbell denied that there was any basis for unity with Stone in 1831 showing that Stone envisioned a denominational form of union. The hand shake in 1932 involved only a few men agreeing to the views of the Reformers. By 1937 Alexander Campbell again denounced it and Burnett proved that the Churches of Christ were never joined in union with the Disciples / Christian Churches. The introduction of instruments was purely a financial movemen dismissing those within the Disciples as ignorant and not worthy of consideration.
Never believe people who have been financed to bring churches of Christ into the instrumental fold: no one has ever proposed "unity" without meaning you must CONFIRM or CONFIRM to the Christian Church view. Anyone who does not know that musical instruments are always the cause or mark of teling God to shut up is not perpared to write a WORLD-HISTORY.
Why is there any impulse to even take notice of those who lie about Sommers and insist on usually ONE DOMINANT PASTOR "usurping of other men's labors" and the destroyer of church and personal families?
On the other hand those who followed Alexander Campbell knew
that John Calvin had proposed Restoring the Church of Christ and
opposed instruments. Up to the Reformation no one had engaged in
congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment.
You cannot obey the clear command to teach that which is written
for our learning and use instruments because none of Scripture
is metrical and was intended to be spoken for the sole role of
teaching the Word.
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No one prior to 1878 ever though that the "psallo" word had any connection to the use of instruments in what the Churches of Christ called A School of Christ where worship was Reading and Musing the Word of God: that began by Christ in the wilderness.
No scholar believed that God COMMANDED the use of instruments (to make noise) in the worship of the godly Israelites who attended synagogue and were quarantined from the "worship of the starry host" at the national Temple.
Not until the latest effort to dupe a few preachers and pseudo-scholars has anyone ever said that God commanded instrumental music in the worship of God and YOU had better not disobey.
Christ the Holy Spirit speaking through the Prophets (not Scribes) said
Few churches exist as defined by Christ as The Church of Christ in the wilderness, throughout the Bible and all recorded history:
Because THE meaning of turning to Hermes (pagan Logos) instead of Christ in the prophets and apostles has at its CORE imposing INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC into the School of the Word, Blowers and everyone would truly be amazed (or not) if they discovered that the Church Fathers and reformers were faithful to the Scriptures by denying any role for self-speakers, singers or instrument players whom Jesus marked as hypocrites. He might be amazed that the eucharistic concept is "giving thanks" and not participating in the perpetual shedding of the blood of Jesus. Consistent with all ReligionHoods, Hermes is also the mark of the gender confused. Moving rebuttal to false teachings further down, we are happy to append the latest fad from a Nashville church:
Thou has Turned My Mourning into Dancing. Perhaps by God's design, they didn't read enough to understand that this is the GENDER mark well documented by Christ in Isaiah 3.
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WARNING FOR DISCIPLES WHO WILL--BY
DEFINITION--ATTEND SCHOOL OF THE WORD AND NOT
OBSCENE THEATRICS The Romans, at their own request, obtain from them skilled performers-the proper seasons-the name too, for it is said they are called Ludi, from Lydi. And though Varro derives the name of Ludi from Ludus, that is, from play, as they called the Luperci also Ludii, because they ran about making sport; still that sporting of young men belongs, (playful or ludicrous) in his view, to festal days and temples, and objects of religious veneration. Ludi Actiăci (Aktia). Games in honour of the Actian Apollo, decreed by Augustus in B.C. 31 after his victory over Antony at Actium. They consisted at Rome of horse-races, gymnastic contests, and occasionally of gladiatorial contests. They were held every fourth year (Dio Cass. li. 19). See ActiaMatthew 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! Matthew 27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. illūdo (inl-When they MOCKED Jesus the prophecy used the word Alarm or Triumph which is to play loud wind instruments and make a loud rejoicing sound. G1702 empaizō emp-aheed'-zo From G1722 and G3815 ; to jeer at, that is, deride: Empaizō , fut. A.-xomai LXXHb.1.10: pf. empepaikha ib.Nu.22.29: mock at, mock, tini Hdt.4.134;
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Stone Campbell Hermeneutics John Mark Hicks
One might think that the
INSTRUMENTALISTS had a direct revelation when someone
suggested that Alexander Campbell was quite ignorant
commpared to the postmodernists. They admit no
truth and "hermeneutic" or interpret the Word by their
own subjective reasoning as present perfect needs: often
shortfall in the budget. However. "hermeneutic" is
a way to mark and avoid because Hermes rather than Jesus
was the LOGOS in the Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon and the
MUSES religion. Every blogger leaps
on this as if factual. It is not.
The buzz of the internet is the FEMININE nature of the new style of musical worship. Not surprising, singing and playing a harp was joked as a person "being drunk, perverted or just having fun." They think that hermeneutics just means "interpretation." Peter outlawed private interpretation of further expounding because that would despise the Prophets by the Spirit OF Christ and the Apostles who left us a memory of the prophecies made more certain.
Hermeneutics has its meaning from HERMES but no one can show that Alexander Campbell derived any doctrinal view from SUBJECTIVE IMAGINATION or from the MARK of Hermes. Nor, can it be shown that Barton W. Stone made any contribution to those who derived their view of the Bible from John Calvin who agreed with all historic scholarship. Calvin called for A Restoration of the Church of Christ by simply removing all of the money or power interests which detracted from being Disciples of the Word. Hermeneuts bad mouth the Regulative Principle which they do not understand is derived from Genesis to Revelation.
The buzz of the internet is the FEMININE nature of the new style of musical worship. Not surprising, singing and playing a harp was joked as a person "being drunk, perverted or just having fun." They think that hermeneutics just means "interpretation." Peter outlawed private interpretation of further expounding because that would despise the Prophets by the Spirit OF Christ and the Apostles who left us a memory of the prophecies made more certain.
Hermeneutics has its meaning from HERMES but no one can show that Alexander Campbell derived any doctrinal view from SUBJECTIVE IMAGINATION or from the MARK of Hermes. Nor, can it be shown that Barton W. Stone made any contribution to those who derived their view of the Bible from John Calvin who agreed with all historic scholarship. Calvin called for A Restoration of the Church of Christ by simply removing all of the money or power interests which detracted from being Disciples of the Word. Hermeneuts bad mouth the Regulative Principle which they do not understand is derived from Genesis to Revelation.
A World History of the Stone-Campbell Movement
This is an effort funded by the Disciples to promote the new Stone Campbell Sect. It is a fact that what became Churches of Christ were NEVER joined to the Disciples of Christ-Christian churches. The major shift away for a fraternal relationship but never a union was the Millerite influence which caused the Disciples to form a society to SAVE THE JEWS in Jerusalem to make it possible for Jesus to return.
1831 DISCUSSION OF UNITY
http://www.piney.com/Barton.W.Stone.Alexander.Campbell.Union.html
This is the "pre fabled union" in 1831: the denial of any kind of "union" in the Lunenburg quote was in 1837. Without passing judgment one way or another, the Reformers saw the Disciples as just another denomination, and saw Barton W. Stone bent on forming a NEW INCLUSIVE denomination. Garrison proposed to include ALL OF CHRISTENDOM. That is why the Disciples have reached a dead end. Theologians have a problem recognizing irony by Campbell or Paul
For our part, we might be honored much by a union formal and public,
with a society so large and so respectable as the Christian denomination;
but if our union with them, though so advantageous to us,
would merge "the ancient gospel and ancient order of things"
in the long vexed question of simple anti-trinitarianism, anti-creedism, or anti-sectarianism,
I should be ashamed of myself in the presence of him whose "well done, good and faithful servant,"
is worth the universe to me.
We all could have had honorable alliances with honorable sectaries,
many years since, had this been our object.
Does he mean a formal confederation of all preachers and people called "Christians," with all those whom he calls Reformed Baptists? (rather reforming, than reformed;) or (as he represents them as prefering for a sectarianwhat shall be the articles of confederation, and in what form shall they be ministered or adopted? Shall it be in one general convention of messengers from all the societies of "christians" and "disciples," or one general assembly of the whole aggregate of both people? Shall the articles of agreement be drawn up in writing like the articles of the "General Union" amongst the different sects of Baptists in Kentucky? purpose the name) disciples. If so,Historians should understand the difference between Mythological History and True History.
We discover, or think we discover, a squinting at some sort of precedency or priority in the claims of the writer of the above article, which are perhaps only in appearance, and not in reality; but if in appearance only, he will prevent us or any reader from concluding unfavorably by explaining himself more in detail than he has done.
He says, "The reformed Baptists have received the doctrine taught by us many years ago." "For nearly thirty years ago we taught," &c. &c. From what source or principle these sayings proceeded, we do not pronounce sentence; but if they are mere words of course, and he intended to plead nothing from them, we would suggest the propriety of qualifying them in such a way as to prevent mistake.I am, as at present advised, far from thinking that the present advocates of reformation are only pleading, or at all pleading, for what was plead in Kentucky thirty years ago, after the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery. If such be the conceptions of brother Stone, I am greatly mistaken. That he, with others, did at that time oppose authoritative creeds, and some articles in them as terms of communion, and some other abuses, we are not uninformed; but so did some others who set out with him.
Our eagle-eyed opponents plainly see the difference between the radical and differential attributes of this reformation, which they ignorantly call a deformation, and any other cause, however unpopular, plead in the land.
"The Christians" in some places, nay, in many places, are quite respectable in the eyes of those who contemn "the disciples" as unfit for good society. And I think the amiable editor of the Christian Messenger himself told me last winter,
that even he and some of his brethren were considered by the orthodox as degrading themselves because they associated with us most "unworthy disciples?'Indeed, it was no mean proof of his christian spirit to see him so condescending to persons of such low degree in the estimation of the noble christians of the land. His willingness to fraternize with us in despite of the odium theologicum attached to our ancient gospel, I must ever regard as an additional proof of his unfeigned regard to the authority of Jesus as Lord, and his love to all them who esteem the reproach of the Messiah greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt.
Among the Greeks it was widely taught that rhetoricians, poets and music must not be permitted to write about true history. It was ok to lie about history when entertaining (only) but never in the schools or called assemblies (ekklesia).
THE 1832 UNITY MEETING J.F.BURNETT Stone and the Disciples of Christ (Reformers then)
Any additions would, as definitons demand, mark the imposers as heretics or sectarians.Morrill, in "History of the Christian Denomination," says: [6]
"The 'union' itself was consummated on New Year's day, 1832, in Hill Street Christian Church, at Lexington, Kentucky, where representatives of both parties pledged themselves 'to one another before God, to abandon all speculation, especially on the Trinity, and kindred subjects, and to be content with the plain declaration of Scripture on those subjects on which there had been so much worse than useless controversy.'
The plain meaning is that they found common ground to occupy, threw away their divisive teachings and opinions, and acted as one. The men who at Lexington pledged themselves there and then gave one another the hand of fellowship,
speaking for themselves, and the churches they came from,
but not for all the churches or the denominations in Kentucky or the United States.There was no voting, and no attempt at formal union, but merely a 'flowing together' of those like-minded. In token of that union Elder John Smith, of the Disciples of Christ, and Elder John Rogers, of the Christians, 'were appointed evangelists by the churches' to promote that simple unsectarian Christian work, which was adhered to by thousands; and Stone took Elder J. T. Johnson, a Disciple, as co-editor of The Christian Messenger.
"This 'union' did not change the status of any name or church or minister or piece of property.
At a later time Campbell made some public invidious remarks about the Christians, and it began to be claimed that they had joined or united with the Disciples. John [7] Rogers says on this point:'No one ever thought (at the first) that the Reformers, so-called, had come over to us, or that we had gone over to them; that they were required to relinquish their opinions, or we ours.
We found ourselves contending for the same great principles, and we resolved to unite our energies to harmonize the church and save the world. Such are the simple facts in the case."
The Christian Messenger (1832) says:
"It is common for the Christians to say, the Reformers have joined us--and no less common is it for the Reformers to say, the Christians have joined us.
One will say, the Christians have given up all their former opinions of many doctrines, and have received ours; another will say, the Reformers have relinquished their views on many points, and embraced ours.
These things are doing mischief to the cause of Christian union, and well calculated to excite jealousy, and to give offense. They can do no good--in fact they are not true. We have met together on the Bible, being drawn together there by the cords of truth--we agreed to walk together according to this rule, and to be united by the spirit of truth.
Neither the Christians nor Reformers professed to give up any sentiments or opinions previous to our union, nor were any required to be given up in order to effect it. We all determined to learn of Jesus, and to speak and do whatsoever He says to us in His Word. We all profess to be [8] called Christians, being the followers and disciples of Jesus."
The Campbells and most people at that time defined church as a Society for study of the Word:
- Church as defined by Christ in the wilderness and as Ekklesia or Synagogue was A School of Christ.
- Worship was reading and musing the Word as is clearly defined by Paul, Peter and the pre-Constantine periood were singing as an ACT was imposed in c 373 and split the west church from the east.
1834 In The Christian Messenger for November, 1834, is quoted an article from the Millennial Harbinger (Campbell's paper) as follows:
"Or does he (Stone) think that one or two individuals, of and for themselves, should propose and effect a formal union among the hundred of congregations scattered over this continent, called Christians or Disciples, without calling upon the different congregations to express an opinion or a wish upon the subject?
We discover, or think we discover, a squinting at [14] some sort of precedency or priority in the claims of the writer of the above article," etc.
It is well known that Mr. Campbell insisted upon immersion before believers were received into fellowship, to which Stone answered:
"We cannot, with our present views, unite on the opinions that unimmersed persons cannot receive remission of sins."
And though later on he came to believe in immersion in water for the remission of sins, there is no evidence that he ever made it a test of fellowship, without which he could not have been a member of the Disciples of Christ.
1837 Jenning, Walter W., Origin and Early History of the Disciples of Christ, p. 196, Standard
The Statement: "The Stone-Campbell Movement" is a big fat lie.Although union was not so easily brought about elsewhere as in Kentucky, thousands of ''Christians" did join the Reformers. After referring to the union effected by Stone in Jacksonville, M. T. Morrill, the leading historian of the Christian Connection, made the following admission:
"Then followed a wave of ' Campbellism ' that swept the Christians off their feet, and aggregated about eight thousand accessions to the Disciples. No Christian churches long survived in Tennessee, their cause was ruined in Kentucky and never has regained its former strength or prestige. Of the Southern Ohio Christians a majority of the preachers embraced Campbeism prior to 1837, and only about one thousand church members remained. A man named C. A. Eastman, traveling through Indiana about 1846, reported that, 'In many places they [the Christians] have amalgamated with the Disciples, and are known only as the same people.' Several years later it was reported that on Stone's account conferences of the Christians had been dissolved and churches disbanded, and the people had become amalgamated with the Disciples."
This was Leroy Garrett's effort to deny the Church of Christ's view of authority, baptism and instrumental music. It has become the DOGMA of the Church Planting Cult intending to plant INSTRUMENTAL churches since the "unity meeting fable" has been put down. Because these people do not want the truth to be told they PLANT themselves as scholars in once-Christian Bible Colleges turned "universalists."
Leroy Garretts 1981 history of the movement is titled The Stone-Campbell Movement. In that work, Garrett claimed that his work was the first to use the Stone-Campbell nomenclature. Even so, his books subtitle is The Story of the American Restoration Movement. Garrett explained that his wish was to be impartial between those who considered the goal of the movement unity and those who considered its goal to be restoration (Garrett, 7).Churches of Christ derived out of John Calvin's proposal to RESTORE THE CHURCH OF CHRIST by removing everything which the Catholics had added as part of the mystical Babylon Mother of Harlots (Revelation 18) who used "lusted after fruits" (same as in Amos) as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players: John called them SORCERERS who had deceived the whole World. This is defined as the use of music to help induce drugs to turn men into "beasts." A beast, by the way, in Revelation the Beast is not four-footed but musical enchanters:
Stone-Campbell Movement has come into widespread usage since Garretts book was published thirty years ago. We should recognize (as Garrett did) that many in the historical movement today do not share the goal of restoring a New Testament ideal or pattern for the church.
For them, using the name of 19th century leaders avoids the baggage of restorationism and anchors the movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, rather than the first century. John Gaine
THE END TIME MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev. 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev. 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev. 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarletcoloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
thērion , to (in form Dim. of thēr), A. wild animal, esp. of such as are hunted, mala gar mega thērion ēen, of a stag, Od.10.171, 180 (never in Il.); in Trag. only in Satyric drama
Kolax , [Philippians 3 Dogs or Catamites]A. flatterer, fawner, Ar.Pax756, Lys.28.4, Pl.Phdr. 240b, etc.; tukhēs kolakes ; parasite, D.L.6.4.2. Att. goēs, Moer. p.113 P.II. lisping pronunciation of korax, Ar.V.45.
Goēs , ētos, ho, A. sorcerer, wizard epōdos Ludias apo khthonos E.Ba.234hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei
2. juggler, cheat, deinos g. kai pharmakeus kai sophistēs Pl.Smp.203d; deinon kai g. kai sophistēn . . onomazōn D.18.276; apistos g. ponēros Id.19.109; magos kai g
Sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, with modal words added, hoi s. tōn hierōnmelōn [MELODY IN THE HOLY PLACE]
3. later of the rhētores, Professors of Rhetoric, and prose writers of the Empire, such as Philostratus and Libanius, Suid.; Apollōnidē sophistē [Abaddon, Apollyon]
PHARMAKIA identifies the speakers, singers and instrument players in Revelation 18: John called them sorcerers and says they will be (are) cast alive into the lake of fire.
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, [Zoon, Zao, Zoe căprīlis , e, of or pertaining to the goat: semen, i. e. capellae,mousikκ aei ti kainon thκrion tiktei
A. Mousikos, musical, agτnes m. kai gumnikoi choroi te kai agτnes ta mousika music,II. of persons, skilled in music, kuknos [minstrel] kai alla zτia; peri aulous - professional musicians, mousikos kai melτn poκtκs, use with singing, skilled in speaking before a mob. Melody,
B. aei always
C. kainos , esp. of new dramas, the representation of the new tragedies, (Aphrodisias dedicated to Aphrodite (ZOE); comedy, sexual love, pleasure, a woman's form of oath, Aster or Venus or ZOE Lucifer
D. Therion
E. Tikto mostly of the mother of Rhea one of the zoogonic or vivific principles
made to be taken and destroyed,
speak evil of the things that they understand not;
and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
JESUS SAID
THAT DOCTORS OF THE LAW TAKE AWAY THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE:
THEY DO THAT WITH THEOLOGY WHICH RANKS WITH PHRENOLOGY
DENYING THE ABSOLUTE COMMAND THAT THE CHURCH IS A SCHOOL
(ONLY) OF CHRIST (ONLY) DEFINED BY CHRIST AND THE
CAMPBELLS.
1Cor. 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;AS THE BACKGROUND OF THOSE WHO NEVER REJECTED CHRIST AND HIS WORD BY REPLACING IT WITH SONGS AND SERMONS, PEOPLE NEED TO GRASP FACTS BEFORE THEY GET OFF IN THE WONDER LAND OF TRYING TO PROVE THAT CHURCHES OF CHRIST EVER "JOINED" THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST--CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WHICH NEVER DEVIATED FROM THE GOAL OF "TAKING TENNESSEE FOR THE ORGAN AND SOCIETY PARTY WITHIN 5 YEARS.
but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1Cor. 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1Cor. 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe?
where is the disputer of this world?ί
hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Cor. 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God
the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.Sophis-tκs , ou, ho, master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, meletan sophistais prosbalon Pi.I.5(4).28 , cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, sophistκs . . parapaiτn chelun A.Fr.314 , cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistκi Thrκiki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with mod
II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money, such as Prodicus, Gorgias, Protagoras, a quibbler, cheat, a RHETORICIAN as the primary meaning of a HYPOCRITE.
hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn A sophist, serpent, makes MUSICAL MELODY with a congregation AS a harp and cannot grasp that IN THE HEART is a place.
In previewing A World History of the Stone-Campbell Movement "history" we have shown that the Campbells had roots in John Calvin who proposed the Restoration of the Church of Christ.
- He proposed Restoring The Church of Christ by removing everything not positively authorized by the Bible
- He used the term The Church of Christ consistent with most recorded history and the Bible: whenever the church is mentioned it is always connected to Christ who "purchased the church of God with His own blood."
- He denounced all of the clergy as lazy asses taking all of the money from the plowing oxen. That's good because the pattern was to PREACH the Word (only) by READING the Word and explaining it: what Paul commanded Timothy.
- He defined adult baptism as a sign but more than a sign: Alexander Campbell said that he could be an almost orthodox Campbellite.
- He denounced instrumental music but permitted the first congregational singing of rewritten psalms (only) to be sung in unison based on Romans 15 although he later permitted simple harmony.
- That's good too because the Written Text is the commanded resource; none of it is metrical and to prove it singing as an ACT was not imposed until long after Constantine allowed unwashed pagans to become bishops. They wanted to add music because it was common "in all pagan cults."
- Alexander Campbell denounced any kind of "union" other than in a fraternal sense in 1831
- The "unity" 1n 1832 of a few men hallucinating unity without doctrinal teaching: Unity was a god.
- Alexander Campbell denounced the notion of unity in 1937
- He added the name Millenniel Harbinger to explain the "protestant doctrines" of millennialism and refuted all of them when the Disciples "unioned" with the Millerites (SDA) to organized, go to Israel and "save all of the Jews."
Leading up to 1906 the Churches of Christ had to do great battles to prevent the Society and Organ party for "taking all of Tenneessee in five years.
- Traditional as authority
- The Law of Silence and
- The direct Guidance of the Holy Spirit
The Disciples of Christ are funding a team to write a World History of the Stone Campbell Movement.
Real true history will show that Churches of Christ are what they are in many respects based on John Calvin's proposal to Restore the Church of Christ. Campbell denied that there was any basis for unity with Stone in 1831 showing that Stone envisioned a denominational form of union. The hand shake in 1932 involved only a few men agreeing to the views of the Reformers. By 1937 Alexander Campbell again denounced it and Burnett proved that the Churches of Christ were never joined in union with the Disciples / Christian Churches. The introduction of instruments was purely a financial movemen dismissing those within the Disciples as ignorant and not worthy of consideration.
Never believe people who have been financed to bring churches of Christ into the instrumental fold: no one has ever proposed "unity" without meaning you must CONFIRM or CONFIRM to the Christian Church view. Anyone who does not know that musical instruments are always the cause or mark of teling God to shut up is not perpared to write a WORLD-HISTORY.
Dainel
Sommer Addresses Sand Creek. About 20
decided to force instrumental music and 100 opposed.
The 20 discorders took the name Christian Church and filed a
lawsuit to take over the new brick church
house. The
Illinois Supreme court decided that the group
founded by the principles of Alexander Campbell and existing
since 1834 owned the propert. In his very godly
address to Sand Creek Daniel Sommer concludes:
Men who were once "Sommerites" have been the misinformers and misleaders have been the source of sowing of discord beginning with the Stone-Campbell Movement which twists history.When they determined to have their devices if they had only left the established congregations in peace and had gone out into new fields and built up churches, they would have acted with some honor.
But instead of so doing they have thrust their devices upon congregations established upon primitive simplicity, and thus have become usurpers of other men's labors. We were once a happy and a peaceful and a prosperous people and for peace we pled.
We entreated them for God's sake and for the love of heaven not to thrust their devices upon us, but they would not hearken. WHAT THEN MUST BE DONE? In the language of the Apostle Peter I answer: "THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGEMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD."
Why is there any impulse to even take notice of those who lie about Sommers and insist on usually ONE DOMINANT PASTOR "usurping of other men's labors" and the destroyer of church and personal families?
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No one prior to 1878 ever though that the "psallo" word had any connection to the use of instruments in what the Churches of Christ called A School of Christ where worship was Reading and Musing the Word of God: that began by Christ in the wilderness.
No scholar believed that God COMMANDED the use of instruments (to make noise) in the worship of the godly Israelites who attended synagogue and were quarantined from the "worship of the starry host" at the national Temple.
Not until the latest effort to dupe a few preachers and pseudo-scholars has anyone ever said that God commanded instrumental music in the worship of God and YOU had better not disobey.
- If you say that God commanded the Levite's instruments in the worship of the Jews.
- And God has not commanded anyone to use musical instruments at any time or place.
- The Holy Spirit of Christ speaking through Jeremiah 23 marks you as blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
Christ the Holy Spirit speaking through the Prophets (not Scribes) said
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded themTHE POSTMODERN VIEW WAS JUST IN TIME TO REDEFINE LYING AND STEALING AS COMMANDED
in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: (CENI)
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, (CENI)
that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23
Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,
The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace;
and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you.
"You can SOW discord and steal the church houses of widows" much better than Pharisees.
Blasphēm-eō , pf.A. beblasphēmēka D.18.10:speak profanely of sacred things, eis theous Pl.R.381e; offer rash prayers, Id.Alc.2.149c; b. kata tinosutter imprecations against, Aeschin.1.180.2. speak ill or to the prejudice of one, slander, peri tēs emēs diatribēs Isoc.15.2, cf. D.l.c., ib.82; b. kata tinos Isoc.12.65, cf. Arist.Fr.44; hosa eis hēmas eblasphēmēsan D.51.3; b. tina Babr.71.6, Ev.Luc.23.39, etc.: abs., Phld.Lib.p.8 O.:Pass., to have evil spoken of one, beblasphēmēmenous Id.Vit.p.12 J., cf. 1 Ep.Cor.10.30.3. speak impiously or irreverently of God, blaspheme, eis ton Kurion LXX Da.3.29(96); eis to pneuma to hagion Ev.Marc.3.29; eis ta theia Vett. Val.58.12; tous theous Id.67.20: abs., LXX 2 Ma.10.34, al., Ev.Matt.9.3.
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Ministries. "My point here is that the first missionary society was the product of a long and intense process which generated considerable soul-searching. There were shared biblical principles and at the same time fundamental differences in theological opinion. Disagreement grew concerning congregational ecclesiology, commonality in mission with other Christians, and also perhaps communion of the Holy Spirit. This tension would eventuate in separate bodies and institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Disciples and NACC] A full appreciation is probably hidden from us in the distance from ante-bellum times. But the nature of the Bible's authority, the relatively new idea of the autonomy of the local congregation, and the centrality of millennialist eschatology for these men and women, with men doing most of the writing which is left to us, seem to me to be mysteries that can only be observed from different angles and rarely entered into existentially by later generations like our own. This is evidenced in the decisions concerning missionaries growing out of this fervor leading up to the Cincinnati convention: Dr. and Mrs. James T. Barclay were the first. It was in their parlor in Washington, D.C., 1843, that the congregation had been organized which became the Vermont Avenue Church and in 1930 the National City Christian Church. They went to Jerusalem, not because of Acts 1:8 "beginning with Jerusalem" as a popular Disciples legend has it, but because it was taken for granted by Alexander Campbell and his followers that the Jews were to be converted before the return of Christ. That was a false assumption: the Millenial Harbinger's major thrust was not to SUPPORT Millerism but to defeat it. Campbell denies that Jesus will return to Canaan. Because the Church of Christ did not believe in William E. Miller [Ellen G. White]. You will notice that it was the Disciples who were tilted by Miller. The title of Campbell's journal proclaimed clearly the eschatology of the pre-Civil War spirituality, so neglected in our denominational memory by scholars and theologians since then. Notice that Campbell spoke of THE PROTESTANT THEORY: not his because he speaks where the Bible speaks and insists on a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH and that you could not convert people after the literal earth was burned up. THE WORLD HISTORY MAKES THE SAME BLUNDER: In the Millennial Harbinger of 1841, we read in what is called The Protestant Theory: "The Millennium, so far as the triumphs of Christianity is concerned, will be a state of greatly enlarged and continuous prosperity, in which the Lord will be exalted and his divine spirit enjoyed in an unprecedented measure. All the conditions of society will be vastly improved; wars shall cease, and peace and good will among men will generally abound. The Jews will be converted, and the fullness of the Gentiles will be brought into the kingdom of the Messiah." The founding of the American Christian Missionary Society cannot be separated from the millennialist eschatology of the period The Disciples followed the Millerites: not Campbell. nor from the pragmatism which required a foreign dimension to keep pace with other denominations or to outgrow them! D.S. Burnet's book The Jerusalem Mission and Dr. Barclay's book The City of the Great King make this clear, along with speeches and articles by various leaders like Isaac Errett. Barclay wrote in a journal The Christian Age: "The ACMS...resolved... to make the first offer of salvation to Israel. . . for the salvation of the Jews... for upon the conversion and resumption of Israel |
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1. THREE THEORIES ON MILLENNIUM CURRENT
In 1841 Alexander Campbell, a postmillennialist, in defining the problem, enumerates three theories of the millennium: (1)The James A. Begg theory-that is, the Literalist premillennialism of the British Advent Awakening, involving a thousand-year (or up to a 365,000-year) reign of saints over mortals;(2) Millers view of the regeneration of the saved, and their glorified state in the renewed earth, introduced at the first resurrection by Christs premillennial advent; and (3) the now common Protestant theory, of postmillennialism, withits long period of gradual improvement and world conversion before the advent. 1Alexander Campbell, The Coming of the Lord, No. 1, The Millennial Harbinger, January 1841, pp. 5-12. Leaving the full discussion of (2) for Part II, which begins with the following chapter, |
Few churches exist as defined by Christ as The Church of Christ in the wilderness, throughout the Bible and all recorded history:
Church is A school of Christ (what Christ ordained in the wilderness as synagogue)
Worship as reading and musing the Word of God.
The Christian Church did not exist in 1906 and the 1971 official separation denounced most of what the original Stoneites held as doctrine. A short summary at Wikipedia notes.
The Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (DoC) parted ways due primarily to disagreements on the denominationalization of the DoC. The split occurred as local congregations refused to take part in rapidly developing extra-congregational organizations that eventually evolved into a General Assembly, which is what drove the Restoration Movement in the first place. They were also disturbed by what they saw as liberal/modernist influences on DoC teaching. This came to a head at the 1926 DoC Convention in Memphis, Tennessee.
The official DoC split from the Restoration Movement Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ is difficult to date. Suggestions range from 1926 to 1971 based on the events outlined below:
- 1926: The first North American Christian Convention (NACC) in 1927 was the result of disillusionment at the DoC Memphis Convention.
- 1930s - 1940s: Symbolic differences and disagreements flourished.
- 1955: The Directory of the Ministry was first published listing only the "Independents" on a voluntary basis.
- 1968: Final redaction of the Disciples Year Book removing Independent churches
- 1971: Independent churches listed separately in the Yearbook of American Churches.
Because of this separation, many Independent Christian Churches/churches of Christ are not only non-denominational, they can be anti-denominational (though not quite as extreme as the churches of Christ), avoiding even the appearance or language associated with denominationalism holding true to their Restoration roots.
During this time the DoC made several attempts to take over facility and property ownership from many Independent congregations and Independents attempted to take over facility and property ownership from many DoC congregations. In this 45+ years both types of congregations were forced to seek legal representation. Representation was necessary in order to maintain ownership of their property and to prevent eviction and forfeiture of assets.
Godulike thanks Rev. Jared Trullinger for pointing out that: When the Disciples & Christians joined in 1832, they didnt agree on theology. Stone was nearly unitarian, and Campbell was nearly trinitarian (excepting only that each rejected the labels). Therefore, the Disciples were begun as a movement in which liberal theology and diversity were to be expected. Unity was the ideal, regardless of theological differences. This difficulty in discerning Disciples' theology is still present today and has been a factor in splits.Godulike's Comment
The Disciples and their doppelgangers are very definitely here to stay. They all have found the way to hang on, make money and influence people and there is no finer way to prove that Jesus loves you than hand over large amounts of cash to a cause that is safe, middle-class and established as The American Way.
To some of the bewildered faithful it must be a continuing source of disappointment that the three organisations have made no plans for a merger, but given their combined financial and political power, perhaps it's just as well that they remain apart.
In the face of growing competition from the hundreds of evangelical rising stars, the high moral ground of the Disciples original ideals is in danger of slipping towards an electioneering style fight for the hearts, minds and cheque books of an increasingly confused public.
When people finally realise that the payment for (any sort of) faith is simply its complete acceptance, then payments of cash or credit demanded by one of God's many representatives will be seen as some sort of unholy extortion.But for now the Disciples still operate on the faith-for-cash philosophy and like all those in the same business are making sure that their own retirement fund is as immune to financial misfortune as it is to faith's betrayal.
[And any similarities between Springfield, Bart and a well-known cartoon are of course, purely coincidental.]
The Disciples are good spenders and in 1990 alone over $30 million was extracted from the pockets of the faithful and put into real estate and various pension funds for retired ministers. As far as the faithful are concerned, they get what they pay for, pretty churches, and as the song goes, something to believe in.
THE NACC INHERITED THE URGE TO TAKE OVER NON-INSTRUMENTAL CHURCHES.
In 1808 he and others founded the Christian Association of Washington, Pennsylvania. That group adopted the motto, well-known by Disciples, "Where the scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent." Of course, this motto was always defined by Christ: