(Ron) Can Ron Understand Plain Language?

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At 01:18 PM 5/22/98 -0400, Brian Dean wrote:

>RON

>Ok, why would it not being exactly the same mean that it was not the 

>same Church?

>

>TILL

>Interpret this for me, and I will try to answer it.

>

>RON

>  If you can't remember that far back, try your dictionary.

>


TILL
Well, my point was that your question was worded so awkwardly that I wasn't
sure what you meant.  When I looked at it again, I realized that you meant
to say, "Why would ITS not being exactly the same mean that the Catholic
Church was not the same as the NT church?"  The answer is simple.  If
bishops and elders in the Catholic Church do not serve in the same capacity
as in the first-century church, then the structure of the CC is not the same
as the structure of the first-century church.  Since the first-century
church appointed elders or bishops (plural) in each congregation, then a
church today that does not do this is not structured or organized in the
same way that the original church was.  So, as I asked once before, how much
can an organization be changed before it ceases to be the organization that
it originally was?

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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