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Originally Posted by OBW
As for your definition of "offending the body," I must disagree. If the 199 are not offended, the body is not suddenly deemed offended just because one is offended. That is a misapplication of some kind of "unity of the body" theory or teaching. And maybe it was not your definition, but simply a description of what you thought Mel might have been thinking. But even if the one out of 200 is an elder, that does not automatically constitute "offending the body."
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It stems from the deputy authority teaching and practice. The phase "offending the body" is utilized to somehow make a preferred opinion legitimate and to discredit or discount a contrasting point of view.