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But even councils are not "all of the church"..."it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us..." And the Lord knows how much may appear as otherwise seems...
But nevertheless, if it be that this is in all true...that there be "no other requirement"
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
At what point, if the scripture cannot be broken, is it then later granted to add anything to the only necessary?
Do you think, might you appreciate that a man's confusion is only further exacerbated to his confounding if being told, (by some entity calling itself the Church) upon one day in time his eating of meat on a certain day has placed his soul in mortal peril...but on some later day he is now given the all clear?
Is submission to the Church...or in the Church, being comprised of what is submitted to Christ?
Does this scripture:
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Contain anything in meaning that it is then given to any to then have authority to manufacture a place of sin where none exists? Or is it the complete obverse...an appeal for a merciful eye to be cast upon what has manifestly sinned?
If my conscience is not clear toward what would even assume to itself such authority, God knows. For God knows in times past...it was not.
But nevertheless, if it be that this is in all true...that there be "no other requirement"
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
At what point, if the scripture cannot be broken, is it then later granted to add anything to the only necessary?
Do you think, might you appreciate that a man's confusion is only further exacerbated to his confounding if being told, (by some entity calling itself the Church) upon one day in time his eating of meat on a certain day has placed his soul in mortal peril...but on some later day he is now given the all clear?
Is submission to the Church...or in the Church, being comprised of what is submitted to Christ?
Does this scripture:
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Contain anything in meaning that it is then given to any to then have authority to manufacture a place of sin where none exists? Or is it the complete obverse...an appeal for a merciful eye to be cast upon what has manifestly sinned?
If my conscience is not clear toward what would even assume to itself such authority, God knows. For God knows in times past...it was not.
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