Sorry dude, I have numerous copies of the Scripture at home. Never once has any of them consumed anything, moved, reproduced, or exhibited any one of the other indicators that demonstrate "life" by definition.
And I've had wonderful spiritual JESUS FOCUSED unity with quite a number of precious RC's.
"Unity" like "love," is not an event, it is a commitment.
Often enough . . .
it seems like . . .
such threads are primarily an occasion to throw words across a net . . . rather across the UNGrand Canyon . . .
and to do so in a way that
dares
the other side to reply . . . thereby affording the sending side the UNGreat opportunity to
play dodge-ball with a different meaning of a common word than might have been understood or thought of to begin with.
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo admirable, that.
I guess I would just say . . .
Scripure as well as THE LIVING WORD CHRIST JESUS have been full of Life to me, for me. Daily life and eternal life and saving my life in a list of ways quite literally.
I can concur that unity is a commitment
TO JESUS FIRST, LAST, MOST, ALWAYS, PERIOD.
BLOOD BROTHERS IN HIS BLOOD.
FOCUSED ON HIM AND HIS PRIORITIES ACCORDING TO THE GUIDANCE OF HIS WORD AND HIS SPIRIT moment by moment.
UNITY IN JESUS
is NOT
REMOTELY BOUND, NOR BOUNDARIED
by ANY human organization, structure, dogma . . . etc. If anything, such are virtually ALWAYS antithetical to UNITY IN CHRIST.
This notion that the unity that Christ prayed for will be achieved only when all the “rebels” “return” to the RC edifice is a crock of pork rinds from hell.
Jesus did not exhort the Jewish RELIGION leaders to shape up so the Disciples could carry on in the great
RELIGIOUS !!!TRADITIONS!!! in great seamless organizational UNITY.
Hogwash. That’s not unity—it’s idolatry of the flesh and of flesh driven structures, priorities and idols.