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Originally Posted by OBW
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.
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You are wrong about that because the bible condemns sectarianism and taking different names is sectarian. "I follow Paul, I follow Silas".etc. "I go to this church, you go to this church" etc.