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Originally Posted by UntoHim
[COLOR="Navy"]The operative word here is "WAS". There WAS one church in every city.
Yes, it appears that there may have been only one church in one city in the infancy of the church. But it cannot be considered as something prescriptive - something for the church for all places and all times.
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I read something recently about the requirement for a "city." It had to do with how far one could walk. That described a "city" in ancient days.
In this regard, the definition is very similar to today's boundaries for the Jews concerning the Sabbath. I used to live in a community filled with Jews and Synagogues. The rabbis had bordered an area within the community, which btw was already much smaller than the city, which was prescribed as a "Sabbath Day's Journey." All the serious Jews knew the borders of this area, and knew that they could not walk further than that for Sabbath service.
It is totally absurd to use the description of N.T. "cities" for today's mega-cities consisting of millions of people.