From: QashishaD@aol.com
Date: Sat Jan 20 2001 - 14:14:56 EST
In a message dated 19/01/01 1:00:13 PM, cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>I cited what I really think is a pretty accurate statement of NT usage
>of
>the word EKKLHSIA. I am not doubting that there was a conception of
>Christendom as an integral universal body of believers in the first
>century--I certainly think that Paul's insistence upon raising funds for
>the PTWCOI of Jerusalem attests to his own commitment to such an integral
>universal body of believers. What I am questioning is whether the actual
>usage of the word EKKLHSIA within the first century of the church in the
>NT
>and documents of the first century reflects that this was the generally
>accepted sense of the word EKKLHSIA. That's a proposition of which I doubt
>the validity.
Carl, I have found your acumen and scholarship worthy of great respect.
Your comments and insights have been most valuable to me. Therefore I will be
rethinking my position in the next few weeks and hitting the texts again. As
for now, we will have to disagree.
Thankfully,
Dimitri Grekoff
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