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Paul & organised Church

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https://www.uwyo.edu/news/2015/02/uw-religion-today-how-constantine-created-the-christian-church.html

 

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why did it take nearly three centuries to found the organized Church? There are three main reasons.

 

... had to allow each community to run itself, as indicated by Paul’s letters to the churches he established.

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It seems like Paul envisioned self organised communities.

This has several implications, such as

 

  • no Bible/Canon in today's sense, each community would choose its textual references
  • no official interpretation of Canon(s), each community would be left free to interpret the texts
  • no organised Church

 

This sounds like a very different Christianity to what we have today

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