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Is it still common practice? I know of very few churches which do it anymore? Do many christians still believe in it? Is it viewed as a mere tool of control |
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@purest1 | 25 June 12 |
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What happens when you are expelled from the communion of saints? Can you be saved in the excommunicated and unrestored state? What do you make of it?
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@purest1 | 25 June 12 |
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The procedures for excommunication were outlined by christ himself in Mt 18:15-18, a speech Jesus concluded with the strong statement ''Whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.'' he literally delegated judgement authority to the church, to bind and loose, to join to communion and to free from it.
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@purest1 | 25 June 12 |
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@ 6anakin6 - 25.06.12 - 09:38am The communion of saints. A man made notion. But surely that communion of saints comprises those who are not just christian purest1? Who are u 2 say it doesn't? No. I'm just regurgitating what christian scripture says. And NO, communion of saints is only believers. |
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@purest1 | 25 June 12 |
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1 cor. 5:11-13 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked person from among you.
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@airwalkr | 25 June 12 |
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You'll have to clarify what you mean. I see those as two completely different things.
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