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Originally Posted by OBW
Remember, the whole church having multiple copies of the Bible is a very new thing. Just a few generations ago, most didn't even have one. And if they did, they couldn't read it. And I'm not sure that the full access by everyone to scripture on demand has been as truly helpful as we often like to think. The number of divisions was vastly smaller before we could all read. The result of general private reading of scripture by everyone has been anarchy.
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Whoa talk about skewed history, there bro
OBW.
Yes indeed, the famed church of the dark ages, did produce a semblance of oneness, enforced by the removal of the scriptures and reinforced by the tip of the sword. That's like a couple of old diehard commies bemoaning the splintering of their great empire into multiple nations after Gorbechev and perestroika and glasnost ruined everything. How nice it must be to chug vodka and reminisce the
unanimous elections of all their public officials. "
Thems vere the dayz comrade." :rollingeyes2:
You might want to retract your comment about
anarchy. Are the freedoms of the masses in some way less desirable than the totalitarian brutality of Rome, all under the "reasonable" mandate of
preventing division in the body of Christ? Is not perhaps your thoughts of the "number of divisions" a holdover from LC days? Could we perhaps view the many gatherings as multiple "opportunities" for God's children to prosper?