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Originally Posted by Ohio
Apparently you have no idea how similar you have become to the Catholic Church. They have always stood for the oneness of the body of Christ, just like LSM always claims to stand for the one body. Catholic means oneness. For the LSM publishing house to direct its member churches, is little different than the Vatican to direct its parishes. They both mandate that their member churches be the same in communion liturgy, reading material purchased from their approved bookstore, appearance, teachings, worship music, ministers/priests trained at their own seminaries, etc.
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I think the bible teaches order in the church, not chaos, and a certain level of organization. But the church is not "an organization" like the Catholic church. There are things that the Catholic church gets right and it's very good that it stands for the oneness of the body. But then there's the issue of worldly mixture and human manufactured oneness.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
You may not like Peter as your first pope, but you have little problem with Paul as your first MOTA. Both the Catholics and the Recovery love to trace their lineage of leaders back to the 1st century.
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Every Christian can trace their lineage back to the apostles/disciples of the Bible. For Gentiles, that person would be mostly the apostle Paul who commenced the ministry to the Gentiles.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
This sounds kind of funny coming from you. Have you not read these published statements from LSM?
Evangelical, it's your leaders that wants lots of distance between them and the majority of protestant evangelicals, I guess, including yourself.
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Yes you've declared it to be hypocrisy but I still don't get why that means the Reformation should not have happened or was not God's move as you seem to be suggesting.