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To: annalex
and tell me if this reminds you of Protestantism.

Thankfully, and PRAISE GOD, NO!

Nor, does it remind me

Of the Scripture:

Where two or three [believers]
are gathered together,
in my name,
THERE am I
IN THE MIDST
OF THEM.

Clearly, Jesus didn't get the memo that it had to be with the magesterical's sanction, approval, scrutiny, blessing and the Bishop's sanction, approval, scrutiny, blessing and the umptyump's sanction, approval, scrutiny, blessing and the . . .

I think I'll choose Jesus' perspective and way over the Roman edifice's any day or century.

Matthew 18:20 (Amplified Bible)
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
20For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.(A)

Matthew 18:20 (The Message)
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
18-20"Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this. When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action. And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I'll be there."

Matthew 18:20 KJV: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

9,802 posted on 02/08/2007 3:45:51 PM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; GOD ALONE PAID THE PRICE; GOD ALONE IS ABLE)
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To: Quix
NO!

I rest my case. Also, see "if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican" to go with the St. Ingatius excerpt.

9,805 posted on 02/08/2007 3:56:34 PM PST by annalex
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