Wat is afgodery? – Die belydenisskrifte : Bybelskool : https://bybelskool.com
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1. Lees die aanhalings uit die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis 29 en 36 (let op na die voorskrif rondom afgodery), die Heidelbergse Kategismus 95 sowel as die Westminster Geloofsbelydenis Hoofstuk 23 hieronder. Wat leer jy van wat afgodery is? Wat beteken dit vir jou? Wat vra dit van jou?
Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis 29
Ons glo dat ons sorgvuldig en met groot oplettendheid uit die Woord van God behoort te onderskei watter kerk die ware kerk is, aangesien al die sektes wat daar vandag in die wêreld is, hulle ten onregte die naam kerk toeeien. Ons praat hier nie van die huigelaars wat in die kerk met die goeies vermeng is en tog nie aan die kerk behoort nie alhoewel hulle uiterlik daarin is; maar ons sê dat `n mens die liggaam en die gemeenskap van die ware kerk moet onderskei van al die sektes wat beweer dat hulle die kerk is. Die kenmerke waaraan ons die ware kerk kan uitken, is die volgende:
Wanneer die kerk die evangelie suiwer preek, die sakramente suiwer bedien soos Christus dit ingestel het en die kerklike tug gebruik om die sondes te straf - kortom, wanneer almal hulle ooreenkomstig die suiwere Woord van God gedra, alles wat daarmee in stryd is, verwerp en Jesus Christus as die enigste Hoof erken. Hieraan kan ons met sekerheid die ware kerk uitken, en niemand het die reg om hom daarvan af te skei nie.
Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis 36
Westminster Geloofsbelydenis 23
1. God, the supreme Lord and King of the whole world, has ordained civil authorities to be over people under him for his own glory and the public good. For this purpose he has armed civil authorities with the power of the sword to defend and encourage those who are good and to punish wrongdoers.1
1. Rom 13.1-4, 1 Pt 2.13-14
2. It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute offices of civil authority when that is their calling.2 In the administration of such offices they should take care to support true religion, justice, and peace, according to the beneficial laws of each government,3and in so doing they may lawfully under the New Testament wage war on just and necessary occasions.4
2. Prv 8.15-16, Rom 13.1-4; see citations under Section 1 above.
3. Ps 2.10-12, 1 Tm 2.2, Ps 82.3-4, 2 Sm 23.3, 1 Pt 2.13, Ps 101; see citations under Section 1 above.
4. Lk 3.14, Rom 13.1-4, Mt 8.9-10, Acts 10.1-2, Rv 17.14,16.
3. Civil authorities may not take on themselves the ministering of God's word and the sacraments, the administration of spiritual power, or any interference with matters of faith.5Nevertheless it is the duty of civil authorities to protect the church of our Lord, without giving preference to any denomination of Christians, so that every person with church affiliations or duties will be able to function with complete and unquestioned freedom. Since Jesus Christ has directed the establishment of regular government and discipline in his church, no law of any civil government should interfere with, abridge, or hinder the proper exercise of church government among the voluntary members of Christian denominations, acting in accordance with their own professed beliefs. It is the duty of civil authorities to protect the person and good name of everyone so that none are abused, injured, or insulted on account of religious faith or lack of it.6It is also their duty to see to it that all religious and ecclesiastical assemblies are held without disturbance.7
5. 2 Chr 26.18, Mt 18.17, 16.19, 1 Cor 12.28-29, Eph 4.11-12, 1 Cor 4.1-2, Rom 10.15, Heb 5.4, Jn 18.36, Acts 5.29.
6. Is 49.23, Ps 122.9, Ezr 7.23-28, Lv 24.16, Dt 13.5-6,12, 2 Kgs 18.4, 1 Chr 13.1-9, 2 Kgs 23.1-26, 2 Chr 34.33, 15.12-13, Rom 13.1-6, Ps 105.15, Acts 18.14-16.
7. 2 Chr 19.8-11, 29 and 30, Mt 2.4-5, 2 Sm 23.3, Rom 13.4; see General Note.
4. It is people's duty to pray for those in authority,8to honor them,9to pay them taxes and whatever is owed them,10to obey their lawful commands, and to be subject to them for conscience's sake.11Unbelief or different religious views on the part of civil authorities does not mean that they are to be disobeyed by believers, including clergymen,12in the legitimate pursuit of their duties.13The Pope, of course, has no power or jurisdiction over civil authorities or the people under them in secular affairs. The Pope never has any right to usurp secular authority, particularly capital punishment in cases of what is judged to be heresy or any other fault.14
8. 1 Tm 2.1-3.
9. 1 Pt 2.17.
10. Rom 13.6-7, Mt 22.21.
11. Rom 13.5, Ti 3.1.
12. Rom 13.1, 1 Kgs 2.35, Acts 25.9-11, 2 Pt 2.1, 10-11, Jude 8-11.
13. 1 Pt 2.13-14, 16; this is an inference from the duties just stated.
14. 2 Thes 2.4, Rv 13.15-17, 2 Tm 2.24, 1 Pt 5.3; this is an inference from the doctrine of the civil magistrate, and from duties incumbent on believers with respect to him.
2. Loof die Here in gebed vir die spesifieke wysheid en insig wat die geloofsbelydenisse jou gee oor wat afgodery is en die effek daarvan.
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