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Again, I think you're confusing two types of apostasy. The Galatians were off-track. Paul described their deviance in apostasy-like language. All I'm saying is that:Galatians is one city where someone was teaching false teachings and Paul addressed that in his letter. Not everyone even there went apostate. It does not equal a total apostasy the complete church. Neither does the seven churches in the Book of Revelation equate to a total apostasy the complete church. Mormons like to play the same game of pretending that false teaching here and there equals a total apostasy.
The text I posted shows that destruction of the Anti-Christ, Beast is shortly after the Great Total Apostasy of the complete, total, full church.
Even Catholicism of today holds to the essenitials of the gospel spelled out in I Cor 15.
(1) The Galatian error soon became common to all the congregations in the world and persists today.
(2) The Galatian error is to consider it copasetic to exegetically deduce God's will (use Scripture to select leaders, define church government, perform evangelism, conduct church services, and practice obedience) instead of waiting upon the Lord for Direct Revelation to obtain these specific instructions directly from Him.
That's all I'm saying. All your talk about the Great Apostasy is a separate issue. You've created a strawman argument against me by debating an issue separate from the one that I'm debating.
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