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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
When I read 1Corinth 3 it seems absurd to me that the conclusion of Paul's rejection of names like "of Paul", "of Peter", and "of Christ" is to present a better name of the "church in blank".
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Somehow we've gone from believing into Jesus Christ, and being saved thereby, to matters of organisation.
It might be profitable to step back from Paul, and go to Jesus. When Jesus taught the 12, there were factions. Each was striving for pride of place. Jesus taught, by contrast, to take the least place. So there were already "divisions" there on the ground of oneness, because the divisions came from within. Pride, envy, strivings, ignorance, prejudice, fear, anger.
My question is, if this happened right in front of Jesus, with 12 committed disciples, why wouldn't it also happen in Corinth and elsewhere? And why should some better organisational template or nomenclature cure all that, and bring us to, "Here where we're dwelling in oneness/God commands life evermore" (Hymns, 1221)? What kind of a spell did we fall under?