Bible Study = "going to Church" aka Corporate Worship

[Van]

Acts 10:41 uses the word plus a compound w/ a preposition for God choosing (προκεχειροτονημένοις).

"not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead."

And I was referring to outside sources of God choosing w/ this word. But this works too.

Shall I continue?

Now Greektim admits the verb was not used for God, but a different word, thus G5500 was said to be G4401. At what point will the nonsense cease?

 

[Jerome]

Where did you get that snippet?

Institutes IV, 4, 2. I came across it while reading Dever's booklet on elder led congregational ruled churches called By Whose Authority? Elders in Baptist Life.

Ah yes, 9Marksism.

But here is the full Institutes passage as published in Dever's 'Elders' pamphlet:

http://involve.9marks.org/site/DocServer/By_Whose_Authority.pdf?docID=301 [PDF]

Calvin’s careful scholarship in the early patristic period is rehearsed in Book IV, Chapter 4, of his famous Institutes of the Chrisitan [sic] Religion: “In each city,” he wrote, “these [elders] chose one of their number whom they specially gave the title ‘bishop’ in order that dissensions might not arise (as commonly happens) from equality of rank. . . . The ancients themselves admit that this was introduced by human agreement to meet the need of the times.”

Calvin says "this was introduced by human agreement to meet the needs of the times".

Yet you said he was talking about our Bible passage:

your posts smell more like σκυβαλον.

And as I showed, in Calvin's Institutes, he used this passage to say that elders appointed elders.

You must not have read that either. Convenient you'll use Calvin and deride those that follow his theology. More σκυβαλον.

 

[Van]

I am shocked, shocked to find Greektim has once again misrepresented the facts to bolster his view. Shall we recount them one by one?
1) G5500 was said to be G4401.
2) Extra-biblical usage was said to reflect biblical usage.
3) To say the word means select by vote was a fallacy.