Regarding the Ground of Locality - David Canfield

Originally Posted by OBW

The issue is not how one they are with each other within their assembly, but how one they are with those of all assemblies. Your solution requires that others be abandoned and there be no oneness with them because they will not drop the differences and agree on so much...

OBW,

Thanks for your response. I disagree with you on Acts 2... the one accord is relevant as mentioned in the verse "they were all in one accord...." unless you regard that insertion to be equal with something like "and it was a bright and sunny day"

However, I'd like to address this point you made if I may.

You said: "And once within the confines of the LRC, you can be one with others in the LRC, but not really with any others because they are declared to be "not one" by your very stance. Where is the oneness in that?"

Your argument above is like saying that a group of people who believe in freedom forfeit that stance if they won't embrace dictators. After all, dictators should have the freedom to be dictators. In fact, those who embrace true freedom are exclusive in their stance and they compromise their stance if they were to allow dictatorship ideas as part of their platform.

Oneness is like that also. Oneness does not mean that division must be embraced. On the contrary oneness is like freedom and division must be rejected else the oneness is compromised.

I am speaking about the oneness defined in the Bible and not any extra-biblical kind of oneness.