dodge
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That's pretty lame since I don't know if all those who are MAD see that the same way. We all don't agree on every detail, but, unfortunately, because of people like you, who are afraid to even hear what is being said, we don't get a chance to hear the arguments on it.
But, you are too afraid to even discuss it. You would preach that whole entire churches are in Christ in the same way those in the body are in Him individually, and that's even worse.
The way to tell is to look and see if the same Gospel was being preached when you claim those churches were in Christ. Remember, they were still preaching repent and be baptized, and that most certainly is NOT how one is baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ when they are begotten by the Gospel of Grace.
You have to be joking right ?
Try reading the following verse without your MAD glasses on if you can .
Gal 1:23
But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
It is obvious that Paul persecuted the early Jewish Christian church. NOW enter Jesus in Paul's life on the Damascus road and says "Saul why do you persecute me, and Saul replies who are you Lord, and Jesus says I am Jesus who you are persecuting".
I have been told by one in MAD that Paul was knowingly persecuting the Jewish Christians !
If Jesus told Saul he was persecuting Him, how can anyone believe the ones being persecuted were not in the B.O.C. ?