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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Anyway, you seem to be arguing semantics about degraded versus nominal. But the meaning of words are not your strong point (as I and others have pointed out to you before).
Nominal means:
(of a role or status) existing in name only.
(of a price or charge) very small; far below the real value or cost.
Degraded means:
reduced in quality; inferior.
Nominal can mean worse than degraded. Nominal can mean "in name only" and so you could be saying that the church in Smyrna are not real Christians at all. It could mean "far below the real value or cost", or not living up to the standard.
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Yes, nominal is definitely worse than degraded. It is a deceit, a false church.
The point is that no real church can be a nominal one. A "degraded" church would be a genuine one, only reduced in quality.
Therefore you cannot confuse them with a nominal one, they are completely different.