{"id":1850,"date":"2017-01-07T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2017-01-27T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:34:35","slug":"chapterianity-vs-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/chapterianity-vs-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapterianity vs Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.instructables.com\/ORIG\/FKJ\/FFW8\/ICO0CUCC\/FKJFFW8ICO0CUCC.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My support group sent me images entitled Churchianity vs Christianity which I will show at the end of this article. The image is very thorough in its explanation and analysis. But when I pondered about it UBF was never a church but a chapter. These words (chapter &amp; church) have been used interchangeable but have different definitions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more What's the difference?--><\/p>\n<p>According to Oxford English Dictionary the definition of a church is &#8220;A building for public worship belonging to a religion&#8221; (OED). The problem with called UBF a church is that their service is not public (figuratively speaking) and they don&#8217;t conduct \u00a0any worship. If anything their &#8220;worship&#8221; is not of Jesus but idolatry of men specifically chapter directors (a.k.a in UBF terms &#8220;missionaries&#8221;. Since the word church is affiliated with the connotation of Christian worship<\/p>\n<p>That is why UBF is more accurately a chapter. For a chapter is &#8221;\u00a0A branch of an organization or society [esp. of a college fraternity]&#8221; that has &#8220;A duly constituted general meeting or assembly&#8221; (OED). In other words UBF is just an organization\/operation that conducts endless meetings only with cultic practices.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the images:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/564x\/31\/93\/35\/319335649fe1bb0a78d268c0ce77d312.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"654\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/564x\/24\/b4\/7f\/24b47ff7634575f7bae515efa2d8057b.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"674\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My support group sent me images entitled Churchianity vs Christianity which I will show at the end of this article. The image is very thorough in its explanation and analysis. But when I pondered about it UBF was never a church but a chapter. These words (chapter &amp; church) have been used interchangeable but have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,132,141,122,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-history","category-info","category-scripture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}