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Originally Posted by Contra_Mundum  I can accept an argument that a honorific like "Rev." is a mistake, even if I think it isn't a mistake.
What I can't accept is the claim that it is an error to have attribution of titles that are the product of an individual's being invested of office. The Apostle Paul? Sorry, that's not a misrepresentation. Neither is "Elder" So-and-so, or "Deacon" Xyz, or "Minister" or "Pastor" Bruce.
These are simply the old anabaptist (fanatic) arguments against offices of any kind. Which, of course, meant in the end that they were led by charismatics beholden and responsible to none. | I don' think the author of the article was arguing against "offices" at all, it was simply the use of taking titles to display that office that was in question.
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Jeffrey Wilson
Cornerstone Reformed Baptist Church
London Baptist Confession of Faith 1644
Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
"If ever a monk got to heaven by monkery, I ought to have gotten there!" Martin Luther
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