Richard, welcome to the NFF website. You are welcome to read and comment on existing posts or to post material. Feel free to introduce yourself and tell us why you are drawn to our work of proclaiming the message preached by Fox and the early Friends.
Richard, The following comment was supposed to go to you. Instead I managed to comment to myself instead. Anyway, you will find no dispute here about the historical reality of Christ. But we will go further to state that if you know him no closer (or nearer) than the pages of Scripture, neither He nor Scripture are of benefit to you. Christ is come to teach His people Himself is a present reality and it is under His teaching that we understand Scripture and are able to make use of the examples set before us. Some groups would seem to take the stand that the Scriptures validate Christ and make the Scripture their primary authority. Whereas it is the other way round. I trust there is no ground of contention here between us and the Conservative Friends you were hoping to be in contact with.
Ellis Hein
Richard, welcome to the NFF website. You are welcome to read and comment on existing posts or to post material. Feel free to introduce yourself and tell us why you are drawn to our work of proclaiming the message preached by Fox and the early Friends.
3rdMo 9, 2015
Ellis Hein
Richard, The following comment was supposed to go to you. Instead I managed to comment to myself instead. Anyway, you will find no dispute here about the historical reality of Christ. But we will go further to state that if you know him no closer (or nearer) than the pages of Scripture, neither He nor Scripture are of benefit to you. Christ is come to teach His people Himself is a present reality and it is under His teaching that we understand Scripture and are able to make use of the examples set before us. Some groups would seem to take the stand that the Scriptures validate Christ and make the Scripture their primary authority. Whereas it is the other way round. I trust there is no ground of contention here between us and the Conservative Friends you were hoping to be in contact with.
3rdMo 12, 2015
Richard Robert Davis
Ellis, one more thing; please be assured there is no "ground of contention" between us.
I am open to learn from "That of God which is every person."
Richard
3rdMo 13, 2015
Richard Robert Davis
Whoops, I meant "That of God which is IN every person."
I almost left it as if I were a pantheist. Sorry.
Richard
3rdMo 13, 2015