sooda
Veteran Member
I've finally read enough of your posts to be able to interpret what you mean by "Spiritual discernment." It definitely appears to be a total lack of knowledge of anything outside of the Bible, along with an ability to translate certain biblical passages so as to mean what you want them to mean, rather than what the authors thought they were writing.
I'm not impressed, to be honest...
Same cult teaches Serpent Seed.
One of the several false doctrines of the Shepherd's Chapel is the teaching that all people had an existence prior to being here on earth in what is called the first earth age. According to Shepherd's Chapel, there are three earth ages:
- First earth age: Beginning of all things up to fall of Satan. This fall caused incredible destruction and waste. We preexisted in the earthly existence in soul bodies. Those preexistent ones who rebelled against Lucifer and sided with God are called the elect. Gen. 1:1.
- Second earth age: After the fall of Satan, God had to remake the world. It consists of Gen.1:2 through Revelation where all the world, except the elect, will accept the antichrist.
- Third earth age: Begins with the establishment of the millennium, proceeds through its end, and extends into eternity. During the millennium, the elect are in spirit bodies, not physical ones.
The Shepherd's Chapel teaches that we were created in the first earth age, a time before the fall, where we existed in the form of soul bodies. The problem with this is that there is no biblical support for this position. In fact, the Bible contradicts this soul-body idea.
"it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven," (1 Cor. 15:44-47).
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Did we exist as souls prior to Adam's creation? | CARM.org