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“Religion… Is a manifestation always inherent in the life of humanity, and is as indispensable, as inherent in humanity at the present time as at any other. Secondly, religion is always the theory of the practice of the future and not of the past.”

While believers were agreed among themselves and the body was one, it had no need to declare itself as a church. It was only when believers were split up into opposing parties…seemed necessary to each party to confirm their own truth by ascribing to themselves infallibility… one church only arose when there were two sides…called the other side heresy, and recognized their own side as the only infallible church

With certain Scriptural commands (ie non-resistance) the church claims “the man who transgresses any command..does not cease to be a Christian if he hold the true faith…reducing a direct conscious denial of a command to a casual breach…we must not understand it too literally, but that there are conditions & circumstances in which we must do the direct opposite.” Not applied to all commands, hypocrisy emerges

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