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To: Conservative til I die

It's like a regular Tower of Babel.
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You really are not very knowledgeable about scripture are you? Why am I not surprised.

Tower of Babel.....

Gen. 11:4 Then they said," Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Gen. 11:5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the were building.........
Gen. 11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, they stopped building the city.

The Lord did not seem to approve of their type of unity.


1,319 posted on 04/23/2005 12:35:40 PM PDT by BriarBey ("He Who Does Not Remember History Is Condemned To Repeat It")
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To: BriarBey
The Lord did not seem to approve of their type of unity.

You don't seem to approve of Christian unity. You seem not to want all Christians to belong to one visible Church.

Well, let's see what Scripture says:

Jesus, in his high priestly prayer, says, "May they be brought to complete unity" (John 17:23)

Paul prays, "Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus." (Rome 15:5)

In the face of division in the Corinthian church, Paul writes, "Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. . . . Has Christ been divided?" (1 Cor 1:10,13)

Paul also tells the Corinthians, "For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the memnbers of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit." (1 Cor 12:12-13)

In Gal 5:20 we see Paul say that those guilty of "dissensions" and "sects" shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

And the whole thrust of Ephesians 4:1-16 is an exhortation to strive for unity, which is to be the mark of the Church. For these reasons, all Christians should be constantly striving with all effort to unify the Church. Those who strive to divide the Church work against the Church. We are called to work for truth and unity at the same time.

-A8

1,351 posted on 04/23/2005 7:01:18 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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