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To: Neocon who wrote (63211)	12/8/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Well the matter is a bit more complex than this. The Church at times grew dynamically, here and there with significant spurts and amidst severe persecution. Contrary to "Just-so" stories of many, it also changed with this haphazard growth pattern, at times significantly. Folk brought with them their habits and traditions and in the course of the pressures they brought to bear on the institution, goodness and rightness were not always well represented. The institution has had its problems representing truth -- from the earliest Jewish kingdoms to the Pharisees to the catholicising Christian church to the Eastern Orthodox Catholic church to the Western Roman Catholic church to the Reformation churches and to the Protestants churches of today. Nevertheless in the Scriptures we see through all human weakness and error there has always existed a remnant of true believers through whom The Chosen People have been preserved. This "true community" exists amidst the institution, and is one reason why conflict and division has always existed therein, even prior to the Reformation.