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Catholic applied is simply “universal” - not denominational unless you want to apply it in context of 16th century and not what is written in the 1st century.
The first word is simply:
Strong's Greek: 1577. ἐκκλησία (ekklésia) -- an assembly, a (religious) congregation
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I don’t think so, unless you agree that if you so much as look at a woman and you covet her, you are an adulterer. If that is the case then Jesus was neither an adulterer or gay.
But he wasn’t. And His message is still the same… Love God and love your neighbor.
What qualifies a person as “gay”?
I agree… but we aren’t comparing one with another. There are many people who are considered “nice”… but nice compared to God is another story. :hugehug:
Great… Just as God spoke and things came into existence… when Mary said “Be it unto me according as thou as ‘spoken’” - she received the life-giving word that created a body.
God is love is not a description - it is a statement of being. From the position of who He is, you can add descriptions.
That’s fine… no one is requiring you to believe so. All I said was basically that I don’t argue when there is a clear statement
Yes… Ignatius from the 16th century… not a good source for what was at the beginning.
Catholic applied is simply “universal” - not denominational unless you want to apply it in context of 16th century and not what is written in the 1st century.
The first word is simply...
Radical religion?
I did preach at a Moravian church in Honduras. They must have lost the “female” part.
On a side note, the essence of female was in Adam if we want to look at it theologically.