Path: paganini.bofh.team!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible,alt.religion.christian Subject: Re: God's Organization: Your Church? Followup-To: alt.bible Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:59:52 -0600 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <63a0762c$0$2250$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:27:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="d2ecf279f9db57a3ecf3e5985e9bfed2f945d15a"; logging-data="2843688"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:653955 alt.religion.christian:795840 On 12/19/22 16:17, zebra2@windstream.net wrote: > I doubt if there are many churches that did not start from a splinter > group. Even Christians came from Judaism. Even Jesus was a Jew, and > followed the Mosaic Laws of the time. This is a lie. If a religion springs from the mother of harlots it is a harlot. No harlot shall enter the kingdom. Moreover Jesus did not follow the Mosaic Laws. He followed the whole of the law, not just the letter, which is a distinction with a great deal of difference. And Jesus is the Law. He is the Lord of the Sabbath. The church is not the body of Christ. No church is. The body of Christ and the kingdom are not discerned by observation. They are united in baptism of the holy spirit, not adherence to a credo or orthodoxy. Those who do not know God invent religions and whoreship their religion as a god. These are faithless people who cannot stand on their own two feet and address God directly. They have to have some other wicked human lead them by the hand in everything because they live in fear rather than in faith. -- Nightbulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch. If tacky red hats annoy Pharisees I want to buy hats for the whole town.