(November 7, 2013 at 11:32 pm)Godschild Wrote: The statement was a child.My bad. I took it to mean progeny rather than a literal child
GC Wrote:If you wouldn't throw your child on fire, why would you burn them for all eternity?Quote:When you put it like that, perpetual torment is practically a kindness.
What?
(November 7, 2013 at 7:49 pm)Godschild Wrote:Quote:That's clearly not true. A church is a christian temple. If you're planning on referring to ecclesiastical authority/body of believers then you're just playing semantics.
Ah, here we go with semantics again, the original meaning of church is a body of Christian believers. They had no buildings at first, you need to study scripture.
Close, but no cigar. The word you're thinking of is "ecclesia" stemming from the greek word "ekklesia", which refers to an assembly or congregation. Church is derived from "kuriakos" and a rough translation of which is "belonging to the lord". The word was applied to christian temples. It's an easy mistake to make though, most modern bibles incorrectly translate "ekklesia" as "church", because the words have become conflated over time.
Tori's answer was perfectly acceptable. You're the one that's playing semantics. And you lost.