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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: S.M.Anderson who wrote (236081)3/10/2002 9:56:18 PM
From: Emile Vidrine   of 769670
 
With due respect, the following statement, "Organized religion is the invention of man", is wrong in an otherwise beautifully written piece.

The Church has always been an organized religion! Jesus organized it when he chose twelve Apostles to lead it. These twelve Apostles exercised their Christ given duties in the fifteenth chapter of Acts by formulating the first primitive rules of the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Church leaders of the primitive organized Christian religion then ordained successors. They continued to meet and collect the writings of the first disciples and Apostles in the organized Christian religion. After a couple of centuries, the leaders of this God-ordained organized religion then chose, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the inspired books that today make up the canon of the New Testament. It was the Spirit filled organized religion that preserved and transmitted the central doctrines of the Christian Faith.
God used an organized religion both in the old covenant and the New!

While it is true that their are many false religions created by man, it does not negate the historical fact that God organized and preserved the Christian Church. Man, and even Church leaders, often make errors and mislead, but total sum of the Church's actions are ordained and inspired by God. Christ is still the center of the Christ Church, and he is still the only door into the Kingdom of God. That fact shows the hand of the Holy Spirit in God's religion.
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