(Ron) Dick and the ONLY church, Wilis the Fool

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At 08:43 AM 4/29/98 -0700, Helen Willis, the fool, wrote:


>So what is the Coptic Church? It's as old as the two versions you

>mention above, but not a part of either.


FALSE. The Coptic Church is part of the one and only
Christian Church. It is now holding discussions with
the Orthodox about reunification. 


>By the way, there is not one

>Orthodox Church, but many each with it's [sic] own bishop, (Greek Orthodox,

>Russian Orthodox, and so own) that's part of what the original

>seperation [sic] was about, the orthodox churches believe that no bishop is

>head of "the church", each church has it's [sic] own head. So much for the

one

>true church, which is what Dick was claiming.


I claimed NOTHING, you fool who doesn't know what a
claim is. I merely pointed at reality. There is only one
Orthodox Church despite your lack of knowledge of the
science of semantics and foolish arguments over the
meanings of words. The Church is not defined by its
bishop, of which there many, many more than ONE in
the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. Merely as
examples, there are Patriarchates of Georgia, Serbia,
Romania, and Bulgaria just in the Russian Orthodox
Church, plus bishops of Cyprus, Athens, and Tirana,
not to mention the main man, the Patriarch of Moscow.

And you again display your basic ignorance of both
Christianity and Reality not knowing Patriarchs, a big
word you might up in a dictionary. A dictionary is a
book with word meanings. It will have the word
dictionary in its title but its title is not what
makes it a dictionary.

In Christianity, a subject Willis knows nothing about,
there are five Patriarchs, Rome, Alexandria, Antioch,
Constantinople and Jerusalem. A patriarch exercises
jurisdiction over and ordains metropolitans, bishops of
lesser sees in his domains. The Council of Nicaea (325)
recognized three bishops with such powers, those of
Rome in the West and Alexandria and Antioch in the East,
and the other two were added later. The Pope is still
the Patriarch of the West.

Dick Jones

"I am, in fact, in basic, but not entire, agreement 
 with Jones." --Farrell Till, as quoted from
 Subject: The Earth Shall Not Be Moved
 Date:  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:15:08 -0700

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