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Originally Posted by awareness
Brother EvanG I guess it's safe to say that you a one church one city kinda guy.
But surely you have to admit that it's not a dogma developed anywhere in the New Testament.
I guess there's no harm in zealotry for it, but it is a zealotry not found anywhere in the scriptures, or it would have been expounded clearly and precisely.
Nee and Lee made more of it than scripture does. They turned it into an extra-Biblical dogma. It's a way of saying, "We're the true church, and every other is not." It's not unifying, as I first envisioned it, but is divisive.
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You are confusing dividing with leaving. For example, if I get out of my car, I am leaving my car, I am not dividing from my car. And after getting out of my car, if I see another car, me leaving my car did not cause the other car to appear nor was another car created. I did not cause "another car" just because I left my car and am now looking at it. Similarly, once you leave division you are no longer in division or divisive, you have left. And you have not caused "another division" by leaving a division.
Denominations
are divisions because the word denominate has the same root word as denominator in fractions which means to divide.
This is very simple to understand I don't know why so many struggle with it.