Which you certainly are entitled to even when it is wrong.
So on what basis do you make that determination? Where’s the official church doctrine or teaching that supports your contention?
>>Take away the people and there is no church.<<
In my opinion, the above is blasphemous.
Yes...and we know the value of your opinion.
In my opinion, the above is blasphemous. No; it is scriptural.
But then again; that seems to be a foreign concept to you.
Take away the people and there is no church.
Colossians 1:18
He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.