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To: Free Baptist
along with its "bishop"

So, you are Catholic.

127 posted on 12/19/2005 9:02:06 AM PST by A2J (Love Jesus...hate "church.")
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To: A2J
"along with its 'bishop'
"So, you are Catholic."

Do you believe that the word "bishop" is used as a name for a church office exclusively by the Roman Catholic church?

It is prominently used in the King James Bible (1 Tim 3:1). But it is never used in a way indicating hierarchical nature. There is no reason to take the office of "bishop" as being anything other than the presiding elder of a local congregation of believers.

The Roman Catholic system does not allow the description of the "bishop" in 1 Timothy ch. 3, where he may be the husband of one wife.

No, I am not a "Catholic," if you mean Roman Catholic or Orthodox Catholic, etc. I am a Bible-believing (Bible-lteralist) Baptist
143 posted on 12/19/2005 9:18:04 AM PST by Free Baptist
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