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Who is your current mentor at the Local Church who monitors your posts?
The term [capital] L "Local Church" is used mostly for legal matters by necessity. Civil law recognizes no spiritual bodies only legal corporations.
The local churches are many in many localities. When a court case is taken to civil law it is usually required that a legal entity be established. Civil law requires this.
We do not consider ourselves as The Local Church denomination or non-denomination. We are compelled sometimes to have to use this phraseology in some instances.
Was the church and Jerusalem, the church in Antioch, the church in Phillipi and the church in Thessolonica banded together as "The Local Church" ?
Were the seven local churches in the seven cities in Revelation 1:11 banded together to form The Local Church?
The answer is no.
And as far as I know no one is "monitoring" me.
Your sound like an idiot to ASSUME that because brothers are in agreement and have learned from teachers, there is MONITORING going on.
You cannot imagine order without rigid authoritarian regimentation.
@sonship saidIs calling Dive an idiot something you will later deny and request people evidence?
@divegeesterWho is your current mentor at the Local Church who monitors your posts?
The term [capital] L "Local Church" is used mostly for legal matters by necessity. Civil law recognizes no spiritual bodies only legal corporations.
The local churches are many in many localities. When a court case is taken to civil law it is usually required ...[text shortened]... re is MONITORING going on.
You cannot imagine order without rigid authoritarian regimentation.
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@kellyjay saidWell I am not looking for a religion that makes me feel good or one that shooths my conscience when it should not be. I am only interested in the truth not warm and fuzzy feelings...
Well I am not looking for a religion that makes me feel good or one that shooths my conscience when it should not be. I am only interested in the truth not warm and fuzzy feelings, because life isn’t warm and fuzzy it has in it the good and very bad.
If you reject the truth because you don’t like it, then you are putting your feelings above truth. This does sound like wha ...[text shortened]... ing you reject it, so no matter what you are always shrinking the universe to how you feel about it.
Odd then that you chose a religion that ensures your "eternal destination", provides forgiveness for the asking and allows you to believe that you have a "personal relationship" with God, etc.
None of the above gives you "warm and fuzzy feelings"? They seem to give them to pretty much every other evangelical Christian that I've come across.
Many posts strongly indicate that if anything you have an aversion to, if not hatred of, truth -including your claim that you are "only interested in the truth".
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@sonship saidYes, I noticed your weasely modification.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Maybe. You never know.
I think I'll modify it.
'Sound like' an idiot does indeed provide an escape clause.
(Of course, removing 'idiot' altogether was an option).
@sonship saidIndeed, though at the cost of unchristian name calling.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke'Sound like' an idiot does indeed provide an escape clause.
Yep, while still emphasising the foolishness of his prejudice.
@sonship saidYes, yes, you have turned to the Bible previously to justify your name calling.
@Ghost-of-a-DukeIndeed, though at the cost of unchristian name calling.
Did you ever see what Jesus called some of the Pharisees and lawyers in Matthew 23 for instance ?
When have you nudged Divegeester about un-Christian behavior ?
Do you think that is an appropriate use of scripture?
(Please evidence where Dive has put himself on a sanctimonious pedestal).
Yes, yes, you have turned to the Bible previously to justify your name calling.
Do you think that is an appropriate use of scripture?
I asked a question. Did you see what Jesus had to call some Pharisees ?
That's all.
(Please evidence where Dive has put himself on a sanctimonious pedestal).
At the moment I am having a hard time looking past the phony objective unbiased pedestal you have mounted for yourself.
@kellyjay saidJumping to that conclusion is not logical either.
So you think if nothing is there, with no cause of nothing, something can happen?
(Try googling Logic)
But in answer to your ham-fisted question; I do not know.
But I am open to that possibility.
@sonship saidYou were putting forward Jesus as an example of why it is okay for you to call people names. Shameful.
@Ghost-of-a-DukeYes, yes, you have turned to the Bible previously to justify your name calling.
Do you think that is an appropriate use of scripture?
I asked a question. Did you see what Jesus had to call some Pharisees ?
That's all.
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(Please evidence where Dive has put himself on a sanctimonious pedestal).
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidWise man once said -
You were putting forward Jesus as an example of why it is okay for you to call people names. Shameful.
You spend an extraordinary amount of time telling people you don't care what they say, while clearly caring very much indeed.
@sonship saidWhat has that got to do with your misuse of scripture?
Wise man once said -
You spend an extraordinary amount of time telling people you don't care what they say, while clearly caring very much indeed.