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Originally Posted by Igzy
...if there are two groups in a city claiming to represent the church in that city how does one know which is correct?--has to my knowlege never been addressed by any defender of the local ground doctrine.
I posed the question a couple of times on the old board. No one touched it. I've sometimes wondered if maybe it just was overlooked, so I have posed it formally in a thread of my own creation here. Still, no one has taken it on. My feeling is this fact speaks deeply to the shortcoming of the doctrine. The question has not been addressed likely because there is no satisfactory answer.
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Remember the story of the two harlots before Solomon, fighting over a baby? Each one claimed the child was hers. The one who was willing to release it, whole and living, was the real "owner"; that was the one who really cared. In contrast, the Blended Brothers don't mind "chopping up" the Body of Christ, as long as they get their piece. They don't mind cutting off believers, as long as they have thier "share".
But the truth is that the Body of Christ cannot,
by definition, be divided. If anyone says "We are the Church" in some locality, they are placing walls around the flowing Spirit. You got saved because the Spirit flowed, and reached you. Now you want to build a wall? Your walls, your definition, creates a "null set", an empty box.