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To: Gamecock

Had I said "all" Protestants ordain women, I could see your point...but I didn't. I also am quite aware that not all churches which are not in communion with Rome are Protestant, being Orthodox myself.


307 posted on 01/04/2006 1:15:25 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

This brings me back to my dropped computer analogy (94). There is no two identical ways to drop a computer out of the window. Each two, so dropped, will be different. Some will have the motherboard cracked; others will have a bent case; yet in others the chips will pop out of sockets. Some parts might remain salvageable, different sets every time. Most will continue to sport the Intel Inside sticker.

Likewise, you and I see Protestantism as a single entity based on a specific finite set of errors. We don't usually go into detail about which part broke and in what sequence, and we admit that many parts in them are quite good. But to the owner of each broken computer his unit is unique, and in fact it really is. He would never refer to his unit as a computer dropped out of the window, but rather give it a case-specific description.


309 posted on 01/04/2006 1:35:25 PM PST by annalex
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