Re: How Should We Respond to Homo***uality?

In article <QzxMj.6576$mG1.1983@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, A Brown says...
>
>> Not everything people _call_ 'wor****p' really is wor****p, not every
>> building they _call_ 'church' is really a church.
>
>So who decides which is which?

Not me, not you, but the Church itself, as the Body of Christ on earth,
makes
this decision, expressed in various ways, e.g. E***enical Council, Canon
Law,
Anathemas...

Of course, I realize even this does not answer the question definitively,
especially since there was a period when anathemas flew across the
Mediterraneum
like spitballs in an unruly classroom;) But it is im****tant to get the
first
point: you and I do _not_ make this decision. Nor does any one other
individual,
or even group of individuals.


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