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Is God the Church?
Is God the Church?
Plain and simple... 
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AW: Is God the Church?
No, i think (i am Atheist!) that if a good or something "special" above exist ist is surely not the church on earth.
SO thats my opinion about it,,,, M.,  PS: No furter comments because i habe been warned i another thread  
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Can you elaborate further before I answer. The Church is sometimes known as The Mystical Body of Christ, but I'm not sure if you have something else in mind.
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
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Re: Is God the Church?
The Church is the bearer of God's revelation, which finds its center in the Incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ. The Church is not God, but a witness to God and indeed a sacramental sign of God's presence in the world and of the (hoped-for) unity of mankind, according to Vatican II.
The Church is holy in itself, because it makes present the Body and Blood of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and makes present the forgiveness of Christ in the sacraments of baptism, penance, and anointing of the sick. The Church is also composed of imperfect and sinful members, and is continually on pilgrimage towards God, a pilgrimage which will only reach its fullness in heaven.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
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Re: Is God the Church?
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But if it were so, wouldn't that mean deity would not be present in any other place but the church? Not the forest for example? Or could we just ask, is god the forest?
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