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To: narses; roamer_1; CynicalBear; RnMomof7
Are you also in agreement with him then that NO organized church has any meaning?

No organized RELIGION.

The local body of believers, the assembly of believers, has some organizational structure as outlined in Scripture.

It is just you and whatever version of the Bible you approve of?

Contrary to RC's assertions, the different versions of the Bible do not vary all that much, except the Douay-Rheims Bible which has some of the worst mistranslations of the Greek.

But since there is an abundance of resources online that can take one back to the original Greek and Hebrew, and there are Greek and Hebrew dictionaries and concordances, it is easy to do word studies in the original language and get a better sense of what the meaning is.

Not to mention, the leading of the Holy Spirit in guiding believers into all truth and enlightening them.

1 Corinthians 2:14-16 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

4,381 posted on 01/04/2013 10:30:53 AM PST by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom

“The local body of believers, the assembly of believers, has some organizational structure as outlined in Scripture.”

Now you see, some of the goofy people here say that there is no address for the “true church”, you seem to be saying there maybe. Is there some special label we should look for? Like maybe the “First Bible Church” or “Free Baptist” or “The Elders of Zion”? Or do we just have to sample this or that odd non-denomination group until we find one that doesn’t celebrate Christmas, Easter or do anything else “pagan”?


4,385 posted on 01/04/2013 11:11:36 AM PST by narses
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To: metmom; narses; roamer_1; CynicalBear; RnMomof7
The local body of believers, the assembly of believers, has some organizational structure as outlined in Scripture.

Thank you - good post all around.

4,408 posted on 01/04/2013 1:43:37 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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