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Originally Posted by OBW
Yep. Ole one-note YP. 
At least I got the connection this time. I can't say I did the first time you threw those two words into a post all by themselves. I sort of went "huh?"  I'll have to go back and find them now and look again.
I'm not sure I bought into the idea at first either. But it is starting to show promise. It may be overly simplistic, but there is this undercurrent of "one universal church and we're it" that pervades so many of the issues and discussions. Sort of like the undercurrent of "dispensing" that will cure everything and cover a multitude of sins. |
Well, let me just put it this way, then.
Even if nobody wants to buy my argument that in the New Testament there's only a universal Body and local assemblies (which is basically just an aggregate term for all the members organically assembling,) I'm not getting my feelings hurt. There's at least a couple of verses that are easily construed in that direction, I don't deny.
But at least consider that, practically speaking, for some reason, every time someone or some group undertakes to do something promoting in some way a concept of "universal church" they just coincidentally also always take their first step towards what we can eventually, years later, recognize clearly as denominationalism and divisiveness.
I'm just saying.