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Old 03-20-2018, 07:02 AM   #163
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Default Re: Apostles in The Church: Yesterday and Today

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It’s only a cop-out to you because you don’t know that 97.4% of Evangelicals agree with me that your argument is a fallacy.
Boy, you put some effort into that little piece of sarcasm. I was just matching your joke.

All I was saying by the 99% remark was that the LCM view on apostles is in the extreme fringe. This view includes their beliefs that apostles:
Have direct authority from God:
To hire and fire elders.
To interfere in the affairs of churches.
To define the meaning of scripture in such a way as members of the churches they control have little choice but to agree.
To judge that churches have become "rogue," effectively to "remove their lampstand."
It also includes their view that certain special apostles are "the ministers of age. (You forgot about that one. Well, it's part of their belief about apostles, like it or not, which by itself puts them in the fringe.)
So it is neither a fallacy nor a cop-out to point out that the LCM view on apostles is not shared by the vast majority of Christians or churches, which my "99%" argument was intended to point out, which I'm sure fair-minded observers understood. You as usual could not pass up the opportunity to turn something into a red herring, which I'm sure fair-minded observers also noticed.
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