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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 09:33:20 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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   • DoubleD
   @shortstories @DoubleD This is a fake question. They're all the same age.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 09:51:33 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • DoubleD
     @shortstories @DoubleD There has always been minor disagreements within the church. Even in The Bible, there's a small disagreement amongst believers vis-a-vis Peter and Paul (Galatians 2). I think it's best to say all of them existed simultaneously as members of the early church but we're refined into their own distinct entities over time. In any case, they can all have apostolic succession and history back to the original apostles, so it's fine.
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     shortstories@merovingian.club's status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 09:51:34 JST shortstories

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     @BowsacNoodle @DoubleD

     "This is a fake question. They're all the same age."

     What is that age and how did you come to that conclusion?

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 11:10:26 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @shortstories @Leyonhjelm @DoubleD You can do that until you can't. If someone claiming to be in charge starts doing heresy, it's enough of a problem that you have to address it should said person actually have influence. There's a reason why wacky gnostic cults are a dime a dozen and nobody wastes their breath calling them out. Meanwhile Orthodox Bishops leave an empty chair for the Bishop of Rome in their council meetings as a permanent reminder, and The Roman Catholic hymnal book has its first few pages talking about how The Orthodox are in communion ("it's fine with us, we're not the problem teehee" 🤓) but practioners need to ask their own Bishop before receiving. So yeah it's the old "if everyone would just" thing— never happens.
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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 11:10:28 JST Thomas Magnum

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     @BowsacNoodle
     
     There is one church. The administrative end has always been secondary. Facilitation is vital but the fights are an evil distraction
     
     @DoubleD @shortstories
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     shortstories@merovingian.club's status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 11:10:28 JST shortstories

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     @Leyonhjelm @DoubleD @BowsacNoodle

     If the fights about afministration are an evil distraction then what about just ignoring the people who declare themselves to be administrators of the Church?