(Ron) Can Ron Understand Plain Language?

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At 09:40 PM 5/25/98 -0400, Brian Dean wrote:

>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?

>

>RON

>  Are you really arguing this?

>


TILL
No, I'm just wasting time.

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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