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To: editor-surveyor

Using Protestant logic... We have no way of identifying who a Pastor is... Or what a genuine marriage is... All is subject to personal interpretation once the concept of authority is removed.


245 posted on 09/16/2013 6:05:13 AM PDT by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: rwilson99

using Catholic logic I can pay for divorce and its not a divorce.


250 posted on 09/16/2013 6:33:00 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rwilson99; editor-surveyor
Using Protestant logic... We have no way of identifying who a Pastor is... Or what a genuine marriage is... All is subject to personal interpretation once the concept of authority is removed.

We don't know who a 'pastor' is for sure - that is why it is so easy for us to vote with our feet. That is why a church is nothing but a gathering place. As that gathering starts to promulgate non-scriptural things, we dust off our feet, and go where the Gospel is being preached.

And the Bible differs from y'all in what a marriage is anyway, so what value has your authority in that? In the Bible, marriage is formally contracted (written agreement), followed by a separation while the groom goes to 'prepare a place for her', followed by the consummation, followed by public presentation. It is the agreement between the two, and the consummation that are the efficacious part - they are bound together BEFORE any vows or public act. The authority of a priest is superfluous, at best.

Likewise, a bill of divorcement is accomplished without any intercession or permission by religious authority.

So the authority you claim is not there... in either place.

257 posted on 09/16/2013 7:49:44 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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