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To: george wythe
I agree 100% There is only one true body of Christ.

Behold how good and plesantit is when brethren dwell togethe in unity. The cornerstone of that fellowship is Jesus Christ and our relationship with him.

I seldom use all of never to describe anything but in the case of Church denominations I have to make an exception. All of them are blinded by their own ambitions, by their love for corrupt mammon and their love for the things of the world.

Denominations serve to limit people views of God and the bible by having installed a list of man made rules for bible interpretation and traditions and teachings concerning what you can or can't beleive -- the protestant manual was wriiten in large part in the 1500's by Menno Simons as the denominations fought and split into 2000+ protstant denominations they have carried along with them the doctrines and their traditions from Menno Simons.

The protestant church has more in common with Menno simons an ex catholic priest and the Church of Rome than with Christ and the apostles.

People read the bible like liberals read the constitution --discovering all kinds of things (traditions and interpretations)that are simply not there.

It is the challenge of this hour for us to put asside all that we have heard and return to the Christ of the Gospels and the apostles of Acts and the Epistles.

We need to walk softly before God and humbly confess to our brethren that we don't know all things. We can't give definite answers on every subject and that what was known as common knowledge in the first 2-3 centuries concerning things that Paul spoke of and the extent of the healing and gifts of the spirit, how they conducted church services, the doctrine of the laying of hands, the doctrine of baptisms, the nature of paul's thorn, these things and so much more have been largely lost on us.

Further since paul the apostle Christ has seen fit to not appear to a single church leader catch him up to heaven and teach him all that occured with the disciples for the three and a half years of his ministry. Not a single pope, not a single protestant leader. None can say with full authority walk this way -- this is the way of the Lord.

None has had the witness of the Father bearing them witness with signs and wonders as did Christ and the Apostles.

Anyway I have said enough here.

57 posted on 11/11/2004 1:38:11 PM PST by Rocketman
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To: Rocketman

If you feel his pain I suggest you get tested for HIV.


59 posted on 11/11/2004 1:42:13 PM PST by inpajamas
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