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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

And I saw any man can be inhabited by the Holy Spirit not just the leader of the ‘church’.


263 posted on 12/27/2011 12:27:22 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: reed13k; one Lord one faith one baptism
we are all as individuals guided by the Holy Spirit. As individuals, all of us, part of Christ's royal priesthood - whether ministerial priests or otherwise, are fallible due to our fallen nature.

But, as we pray, ponder and learn together as a community, not as individuals, the fallibility, thanks to God's grace, decreases.

Hence, as a community, the church rejected the ideas of gnosticism, arianism etc., as a community the Church in council prayed over and pondered over the canon and we have the canon with us now -- as a sub-section of the Word (The Word of God being Christ of course the written Word being not "The Word" solely).

Due to our fallible nature we of course have different interpretations of different inerrant verses, yet the Holy Spirit guides the community as a hold that is to endure to the end, to stick true to orthodoxy - The Church is the community of all men, the Faith is that what has been taught as handed down by Christ through the Apostles holds true.

267 posted on 12/27/2011 1:38:11 AM PST by Cronos (Nuke Mecca and Medina now..)
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