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To: Mathemagician; Kolokotronis; NYer
Hardly. Since the first century, the church underwent the apostasy predicted by Paul, Peter and John, until it became the antithesis of the religion established by Christ. Among other things, the apostate church produced a bishop with the unmitigated gall to call himself "Christ on Earth", to introduce the worship of dead men such as the apostles, and to begin slaughtering any Christian that disagreed with the pronouncements of "the Church". Not only would Christ not recognize the Church as it became by the fourth century, but he will deal harshly with it when he gets back.

So, lemmesee. You say that the church has not been Christian since the first century? No bishop called himself Christ on Earth -- Christ's representative on Earth maybe, not Christ himself. Just as a diplomat is a representative of the President in a foreign land. Worship of apostles? We Christians don't do that. So, I guess you follow Gnostic teachings -- the ones supposedly persecuted by the "false" church?
174 posted on 02/12/2005 9:35:22 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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