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To: count-your-change
Not what I asked but thanks just the same. Can I assume there is NO place where Bishop, Deacon, etc. is used as a title?

Think of your own writing. When you write to somebody, do you include their full title, responsibility, address, etc. each and every communication? Of course not. Neither would folks 2000 years ago. So in many letters, some of this information would be omitted, sure.

1,231 posted on 04/24/2010 5:14:43 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

In short there’s no justification for elevating a job description to a title as Jesus said they were not to do.
It wasn’t just an oversight.

There were bishops, overseers, older men, but no Bishops or Deacons or Fathers, Reverends, Cardinals, Archbishops and the lot.


1,235 posted on 04/24/2010 5:30:36 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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