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To: William Terrell
You wrote: "Jesus didn't found a church, the church developed around the body of believers. References to Jesus and His church was Jesus knowing that a church will form."

And you can prove that...how?

326 posted on 05/12/2006 5:05:12 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The Church: the foundation and pillar of the truth,)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
And you can prove that...how?

Oh, more like an inference than proof. I don't know what would be called proof.

You use "church" to refer to a congregation and the building where they meet. But the definitions for "church" add up to a like minded group of religious people. The word "church" is just a sound that was assigned to that concept because people needed to refer to the reality. Grouping together, as in a church, is a natural human behavior. It just happens without anybody thinking about it.

People that are like minded on a certain point or points seek each other out and hang with one another. So Jesus would haven't "found" a church, as with the deliberate and willful act of "creating a church"; it would come about as a natural process of being human beings.

And I just assume that Jesus was understanding enough to know that process.

329 posted on 05/12/2006 7:11:53 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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