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Originally Posted by Ohio
The real puzzle is how did this ground of locality teaching ever get elevated to the status of Paul's apostolic "vision?"
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And the answer is, "by Lee." (Oh that Lee. He is surely exalted now.) It surely wasn't because of anything Paul said. Or any of the other apostles. It is not recorded in any place in the NT in that way. Not even a bread crumb trail.
More like a collection of words gleaned from various places in scripture then rearranged like one of those puzzles to make a secret message appear. "You take 'church' from here in this verse, and 'city' form this other verse, and 'vision' from still another, put them into the fire and out comes this golden calf . . . er, ah, central theme in the heart of the divine revelation."