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To: vladimir998; SoFloFreeper
I do. I freely admit men fall far short of proper behavior, but the Church did not “go wrong”.

Of course it can. The church is people. Take away the people and you have no church.

What the people do is what the church does, unless the people are not the church.

If the people go wrong, the church has gone wrong.

You can't have a right church with wrong people in it.

Besides, Jesus will not tolerate it. He didn't in Revelation when He chastised the seven churches there and how many of them are in existence today?

85 posted on 06/22/2013 8:44:11 PM PDT 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

You wrote:

“Of course it can. The church is people. Take away the people and you have no church.”

The Church is not just people. The Church is the Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ.

“What the people do is what the church does, unless the people are not the church.”

No. What people do is what people do. I, for instance, might commit a crime, but no one should blame America for the crime I commit even though someone could say “America is people”.

“If the people go wrong, the church has gone wrong.”

Nope. The Church existed before their generation and will exist after their generation.

“You can’t have a right church with wrong people in it.”

Sure you can. If you can’t then every Church is wrong and all will be forever because all people are wrong in some way at most likely all times.

“Besides, Jesus will not tolerate it.”

Wrong again. Jesus has not destroyed all of us. Clearly He is much more tolerant than you give Him credit for.

“He didn’t in Revelation when He chastised the seven churches there and how many of them are in existence today?”

And yet there are literally millions more churches (or sects) like those in Revelation which He has not destroyed.

Do you even think about what you post before you post it?


125 posted on 06/23/2013 4:54:47 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: metmom

**Besides, Jesus will not tolerate it. He didn’t in Revelation when He chastised the seven churches there and how many of them are in existence today?**

All seven. The same seven Spirits of God are still in the world today. God told Moses to make the tabernacle according to the pattern he was shown on the mountain. He didn’t tell Moses to put out one candle after an hour or so, then another after another hour or so, etc. He was told to light all seven of them, and keep them burning continually (or at least continually from evening until morning. Lev. 24:2-4). You can find examples of each of those churches in countless places around the globe. Each still has the same requirement: “he that overcometh...”.


160 posted on 06/23/2013 11:09:19 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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