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To: Elsie
Please define 'mystical' for me, the way YOU use it.

The first two definitions should be illustrative enough.
mys·ti·cal adj.

1. Of or having a spiritual reality or import not apparent to the intelligence or senses.
2. Of, relating to, or stemming from direct communion with ultimate reality or God: a mystical religion.

(BTW, I never implied it WASN'T the body Christ - just not the way the RCC uses it.

It's the BELIEVERS who are 'the church', NOT the organizational higherarchy.)

So the bishops, priests, and decons are not believers? The organizational higherarchy is part of the body, in the same sense that my nervous system, cerebral cortex, and cardiovascular system are part of my body.

1,424 posted on 04/25/2005 3:42:30 PM PDT by Pelayo (Practice safe government, use kingdoms!)
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To: Elsie

following up... A body is an entity that performs acts and functions. These cannot be achieved sans some organizational system.


1,425 posted on 04/25/2005 3:46:36 PM PDT by Pelayo (Practice safe government, use kingdoms!)
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To: Pelayo
1. Of or having a spiritual reality or import not apparent to the intelligence or senses.

So just what IS it, that a human cannot 'sense' about Jesus?

1,435 posted on 04/26/2005 6:13:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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