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To: Blogger
The Church can not call cursed what Christ has blessed. Sorry. My hope is in Christ Jesus Himself, not the church.

Christ didn't bless heretics. He who rejects those sent by Christ rejects Christ. Isn't that exactly what you are doing?

Regards

2,092 posted on 12/19/2006 5:11:56 AM PST by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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To: jo kus

What a way to start my morning! Nothing like being called a heretic before you even get out the gate! Noone can say that Christ is Lord except by the Spirit of God. Jesus is my Savior and my Lord. Do not call me cursed.

I reject that Christ sent many of the people that have lead the Catholic church (or many Protestant denominations). A quick study of history and the Popes would back me up.

The church is made up of human beings. Human beings are fallible. The early church certainly was or we wouldn't have gotten all of those letters from Paul and others correcting their theology. John would have no need to write to the 7 churches in Asia because they would have all been right on the same page with Christ. They weren't.

You are deifying the church. The church is NOT Christ. The true church, the body of ALL believers from all times, is the Bride of Christ. Insofar as she follows His lead, she is to be trusted. When she walks away from what He has laid forward through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Scripture, she is no better than a human institution and is sometimes quite a bit worse.



2,095 posted on 12/19/2006 5:19:01 AM PST by Blogger
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