[LomanBill]

>>A corporation IS a collective.
>>
>>That's just plain wrong.

 

No, your limited interpretation of the word "Corporate" is what's wrong.

 

"Corporate" is in fact synonymous with collective.

cor·po·rate (kôrpr-t, kôrprt)
adj.
1. Formed into a corporation; incorporated: the corporate companies of industrial America.
2. Of or relating to a corporation: corporate assets; corporate culture.
3. United or combined into one body; collective.
4. Of or relating to a corporative government or political system.

 

At Concordia University back in 1980something, I took a course entitled "Corporate Worship" - and that course had nothing to do with the worship of corporations.    In that context, it means a congregation of believers gathered for worship. 

 

Further, the Corporate body of Christ is constituted by all individual believers, cumulatively, together.

"For wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." --Matthew 18:20"

That is a reference to the Corporate body of Christ - the true Church.

 

...Indeed, "corporate" comes from "corpus" (body; i.e. hoc est corpus meum). Through the body of Christ (incarnate and sacramental; Rom. 6; I Cor. 11-12; ) the body of Christ (mystical) is created. Thus "when one member of the body suffers, all suffer" (I Cor. 12:26)....

http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=14133

 

 

In both Theological and Secular usage - the word "Corporate" generally refers to individuals (plural) operating together, as one body.

 

Something else to bear in mind:

 

1 John 4:4-5
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them,  

because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

The word "Corporate" is also synonymous with "in the world".

 

[TChris]

No, your limited interpretation of the word "Corporate" is what's wrong.

"Corporate" is in fact synonymous with collective.

Oh, now you want to use the other definition, not the one you started with (1./2. from your dictionary post)

How pathetically juvenile.

If we combine your new argument with your old, you must conclude that, because it is "Corporate", the "Corporate body of Christ" is "Collectivist" and therefore "Communist", since you have equated the three terms.