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To: Dutchboy88

You wrote:

“I am aware of the Greek term, and evidently you missed the point here... There is no such word as “Church”, especially Church with a capital “C”, the way Rome has laid claim to the term.”

I think you missed the point. “Rome”, as you put it, historically doesn’t use the word “Church”. It uses the word “ecclesia”. “Church” is an English word derived from the Greek word “kyriakos” which means “of the Lord” (i.e. belonging to the Lord).

“Jesus made no reference to an organization on earth,”

Actually He did, but not in your juandiced Protestant anti-Catholic way of talking about it. He gave authority to someone and something. That shows there had to be an organization, an institution.

“but rather was indicating His “assembly” of believers from all over the world gathering in small “assemblies” in homes, shops, underground.”

And that assembly is the Church, and that assembly is an organization and an institution.


85 posted on 04/09/2013 2:39:11 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
"Actually He did, but not in your juandiced Protestant anti-Catholic way of talking about it. He gave authority to someone and something. That shows there had to be an organization, an institution."

Wait just a hot second here, my peace-wishing FRiend...yours is the most "jaundiced", biased, self-proving statement yet. It is the Roman organization which has imputed more meaning into the remarks of Jesus than are actually there. He gave them authority to perform miracles in the surrounding towns. There was no organization, and no institution. Go read the text without the Rome-colored glasses (pretty clever, eh?).

86 posted on 04/09/2013 2:49:36 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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