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Originally Posted by Evangelical
You have failed to establish that those who meet with the name of Coppell Assembly, or Hampton Roads Baptist, or St Rita Catholic, or Grace Bible has cause their assembly to be excluded from participation within the broader, universal group that is the "one church."
When they take such a name and organize themselves in such a way, they have just excused themselves from participation in the universal "one church". To participate in the universal one church is to not take any name at all. It is simply to see yourself in the ocean and others in the same ocean as you are.
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Only once you establish that the using of such a name actually causes the thing that you think happens. And you haven't done that. Just said it is so.
The exercise was to provide more than a personal declaration that taking a name and having a denomination excludes anyone from participation in the universal "one church."
And there is the begging of the question. You bring out a metaphor to show how a doctrine you cannot establish is actually in the Bible works. You say it works because you say it works. Until you can establish that it is actually in the Bible, not just say it is, then you have no basis to say anything about whether the majority of the churches in the world are not actually part of the one universal church. You are using your doctrine to prove the effects of the doctrine that you cannot prove actually exists.