* Personal Element of Belief

The above table demonstrates the three ways we arrive at the beliefs we hold, whether they be our beliefs of common doctrine or our personal elements of belief.  Clearly God wants us to have pure beliefs arrived at through pure theology and reasoning both driven by the Holy Spirit in us.  He will not tolerate those who hold to false beliefs and doctrine.  He also will not tolerate those who have pure beliefs that were arrived at through defiled theology and bad information.

How does this apply to Kinship with the brethren?  See the next table.
 

The Bible does not give us information on every brother and sister in the faith.  It does show us how to approach establishing Kinship with them and all the guidelines of good and bad theology [reasoning] apply.  All our reasoning will be based on and/or affect by at least three things:

1] The reports we hear about the individual.  Were they good and factual reports or malicious gossip?
2] Our fellowship with the individual.
3] Our preconceived notions about what we like or dislike, are attracted to our repulsed by in other individuals.  These notions may or may not be defiled depending on how they were established in our minds.  In other words, our own standards concerning friendship, kinship and/or fellowship with others may be impure, tainted, and defiled depending on how and why we adopted them as a standard for ourselves.

Keep in mind that this table assumes that both the individual and the brother or sister in the faith are truly called firstfruits with the Holy Spirit and therefore in the Salvation Process.
 

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