To: MHGinTN
Are you conflating The Bride of Christ with the institutional church? How are they different - assuming that by 'institutional church' you mean the Catholic Church?
1,809 posted on
01/29/2011 9:21:48 AM PST by
MarkBsnr
(I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
To: MarkBsnr
Ah, that's where the problem arises. You apparently don't think there is a difference, yet The Bride of Christ was here before there was an institutional church. And that term 'institutional church' applies to protestant as well as Catholic institutions. The institutions are not the Bride of Christ, as you can immediately see when you realize that within the institutions there are folks of the 'not Born Again' variety. But ALL of the Bride are Born Again in Christ Jesus.
That flawed conflation leads to many errors which get institutionalized. [Snake handling comes to mind ...]
1,811 posted on
01/29/2011 9:26:10 AM PST by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: MarkBsnr; MHGinTN; Quix
“How are they different - assuming that by ‘institutional church’ you mean the [Roman] Catholic Church?”
There... fixed it for you MHG.
Hoss
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