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Originally Posted by zeek
I didn't say it was wrong OBW, only that I wouldn't choose it. Is it a legal matter how the church meets? Let us for the moment suppose that your interpretation of Corinthians is the one correct one possible. Are Paul's words to the Corthinians law? That would contradict his words in Galatians and elsewhere regarding grace wouldn't it? What did Paul say there, "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. " So if not law, then what? Could Paul's words to the Corinthians be practical guidance on how to meet that were suited to that one church at that time? If there is a basis for concluding that Paul's teaching about meeting must be practiced universally, what is it?
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We've turned Paul's letter to the Corinthians into a universal message never intended by Paul, who could never have dreamt that his letter would be considered scripture two thousand years later.
So it's a stretch beyond imagination that Paul's letter to the Corinthians applies to us, in the 21st century. If so, then we have turned Paul's letter to the Corinthians into law, and that would likely make Paul spin in his grave ... if he's still in the grave, which is doubtful ... bones maybe.