To: kosta50
You are the one that called them well to do pagan Greeks and Jews. I am saying that they were Christians. There was confusion in the church, just as there is confusion now. That is why the Bible is so neccessary. Only the Bible is truth.
215 posted on
03/18/2004 2:42:51 PM PST by
irishtenor
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To: irishtenor
Only the Bible is truth.If this is how your personal belief paradigm functions, fine. However, I hope that you can stop to consider that you seem to be presuming things about the scripture contained within the Bible as we have it today that simply can't be found within the scripture contained within the Bible as we have it today.
pseudogratix @ In Him All Things Hold Together
218 posted on
03/18/2004 4:25:40 PM PST by
pseudogratix
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To: irishtenor
You are the one that called them well to do pagan Greeks and Jews. I am saying that they were Christians They were so spiritually immature, Paul called them carnal. That's about as close as it comes to calling them "pagan." Instead he referred to them as spiritual "infants."
One has to be a terminal literalist to think that anyone who is baptized is autoamtically a "Christian."
223 posted on
03/18/2004 7:29:16 PM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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