Melitians
Definition
A strict ecclesiology that sees the Church as a holy society and denies repentance or sacramental validity to those tainted by apostasy or schism.
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Biblical References
- Malachi 4:2 — *But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. *
- Revelation 1:10 — *I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, *
- Proverbs 8:22 (LXX) — The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
- John 1:14 — *Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. *
- John 3:16 — *For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. *
- Luke 2:52 — *And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and with people. *