Where is it said in the Word that one must adopt a creed in order to follow Yeshua? No creed is necessary, ergo, no creed should be present.
So what’s stopping them from accepting one sans Romans 1?
Accepting one what? What are you going on about? A reprobate mind? What has stopped these others (including your own?) A creed is no defense. It is the Spirit who sanctions.
Nonsense. The congregationalists have no formal structure and they are on this list along with the UMC, Episcopalians, etc.
LOL! Of course they are, but they don't live long if they do not remain true. Have they failed? Yup. then they are gone... And another fires up down the road. Square one.
That almost never happens to a hierarchy.
It is the hierarchical churches that have a power structure - And that power structure invites petty tyrants and bureaucracy. Such things encourage calcification... status quo... That calcification acts as a bulwark against heresy to a point, but it is not entirely effective. And WHEN heresy IS accepted therein, it is impossible to remove.
“Where is it said in the Word that one must adopt a creed in order to follow Yeshua? No creed is necessary, ergo, no creed should be present.”
Absolutely a creed is necessary. Where does the Word give a list of books that say, “this is the word of God”?.
“It is the Spirit who sanctions.”
I ask again, what is stopping them from removing Romans 1 from the Word?
“Have they failed? Yup. then they are gone”
And what does Christ himself say? Christ himself says that the ‘Gates of Hell’ shall not prevail against his Church.
“That almost never happens to a hierarchy.”
Then why did Jesus choose the Apostles and give them authority over the rest of the Church? There is a threefold heirarchy, and it is biblical. Right there in Acts.