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To: vladimir998
You believe in Jesus as other Christians do. You read the NT and see in it that the Church is of te believers. You then, anachronistically, assume that that means your sect is incorporated into Christ or that you personally ar incorporated into Christ without any Church at all. Both assumptions are wrong. Christ established a Church. When He established it - and through out the NT period - the Church contained all the believers.

But it doesn't contain any non-believers...You got the wrong Church...

Unless you can guarantee that Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are in fact Christian believers, you got the wrong church...

There are absolutely NO unbelievers in the church of Jesus Christ...

Jesus did not establish a church to bring people to Him...The people that turned to Him ARE the church...

You got the wrong church...

72 posted on 07/16/2009 5:22:32 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool

You wrote:

“But it doesn’t contain any non-believers...You got the wrong Church...”

No, I have the right one.

“Unless you can guarantee that Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are in fact Christian believers, you got the wrong church...”

No. There have always been sinners. Any group which claims not to have sinners is not the Church.

“There are absolutely NO unbelievers in the church of Jesus Christ...”

There have always been sinners and always will be. There were always some who lost faith in Christ as well. Judas was still an apostle even though he planned to betray Christ. Simon Magus was still a baptized Christian at one poit even though he clearly fell and left the Church.

“Jesus did not establish a church to bring people to Him...”

Yes, actually He did. Hence, the Great Commission. That’s why He said “Go” to the Apostles rather than, “They’ll come to you.”

“he people that turned to Him ARE the church...”

The Church told them about Jesus FIRST.

“You got the wrong church...”

Nope. You have the wrong idea and clearly don’t know the Biblical record of the Church.


76 posted on 07/16/2009 5:54:00 PM PDT by vladimir998
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