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''"[The Bible] is not what the Lord carefully laid down. And that is why we confess that we believe one Holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. You see, the Lord left on earth a Church. An earthly body. A community. A family. He did not merely leave an unfleshed memory, or an invisible idea. He did not merely leave a theological set of priciples, that we can argue over, and parse, and pick apart, and then divide over, and accuse one another of being wrong, or who has the gospel the most correct. That is not, thank God, what the Lord left behind. He left behind the Church. The apostolic Church."'' | ''"[The Bible] is not what the Lord carefully laid down. And that is why we confess that we believe one Holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. You see, the Lord left on earth a Church. An earthly body. A community. A family. He did not merely leave an unfleshed memory, or an invisible idea. He did not merely leave a theological set of priciples, that we can argue over, and parse, and pick apart, and then divide over, and accuse one another of being wrong, or who has the gospel the most correct. That is not, thank God, what the Lord left behind. He left behind the Church. The apostolic Church."'' | ||
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Revision as of 11:22, 28 July 2008
"[The Bible] is not what the Lord carefully laid down. And that is why we confess that we believe one Holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. You see, the Lord left on earth a Church. An earthly body. A community. A family. He did not merely leave an unfleshed memory, or an invisible idea. He did not merely leave a theological set of priciples, that we can argue over, and parse, and pick apart, and then divide over, and accuse one another of being wrong, or who has the gospel the most correct. That is not, thank God, what the Lord left behind. He left behind the Church. The apostolic Church."
