on an appropriate thread.
It is nice for you and others to post your ecclesiological fantasies, and maybe one day I will find time to demolish them, on an appropriate thread.
Speaking of fantasies, I haven't *ever* seen you *demolish* anything on one of the Religion Forum threads.
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
It is nice for you and others to post your ecclesiological fantasies, and maybe one day I will find time to demolish them, on an appropriate thread.
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Why not now?
If it’s so easy to ‘demolish’ our ‘fantasies’ you should be able to find the time easily.
So how about we go back to the beginning and ask what the foundation of our faith and what we believe should be? That should be a good start to resolve this problem.
My four friends I’m pinging and I all believe that Jesus is the rock of our salvation, and that the teaching of the Apostles—which is the teaching of Jesus himself—should be what we base our faith on.
Do you believe differently?