Church legally defined

Jesus went to the Temple to teach the people Pure Religion and end the Corban that made the word of God to none effect.

People use the word Church all the time but it may mean different things to different people and different things at different times.

If you are thinking of a church as if it was a place Jesus went to church. They called them synagogues or the temple. The first synagogue he went to they tried to throw him over a cliff. The temple was actually a government building too.

The word Church is often translated from the Greek word ekklesia which meant "called out". Jesus also called men out to be "in the world but not of the world". He appointed those men to be his government but they were not to be like the governments of the other nations who exercise authority one over the other.

These ministers appointed by Christ worked in the temple providing government services like welfare for the people by the charity of the people. But also house to house rightly dividing both bread and the word in a system of Daily ministration through faith, hope and charity by The Way of the Perfect law of liberty.

The world which these "called out" ministers were "not of" also had ministers who called themselves Benefactors but the exercised authority one over the other. They used force to extract funds from the people to provide another type of welfare that included free bread and provisions.

That system was in conflict with Jesus and John the Baptist.

Legal definition

The Church can only be defined by Christ but a legal definition is available:

Nimrod to Now Series: Part 10: The Church] ~8 min

"CHURCH In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances."

"A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies."

Black's Law Dictionary 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th... eds.

The term church may be used in several senses.

While many institutions may call themselves a church to meet consistent legal definition it must be established by Jesus Christ.

The Church as a body is a corpus or corporate would not include the people except through charity.

The church as a community does include the people or laity in a communion of that charity.

You cannot get near God without what is sometimes called Sacrifice.

The manner of that sacrifice is where the Christian conflict is seen.

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Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition

CHRISTIANITY. The religion established by Jesus Christ.

2. Christianity has been judicially declared to be a part of the common law of Pennsylvania; 11 Serg. & Rawle, 394; 5 Binn. R.555; of New York, 8 Johns. R. 291; of Connecticut, 2 Swift's System, 321; of Massachusetts, Dane's Ab. vol. 7, c. 219, a. 2, 19. To write or speak contemptuously and maliciously against it, is an indictable offence. Vide Cooper on the Law of Libel, 59 and 114, et seq.; and generally, 1 Russ. on Cr. 217; 1 Hawk, c. 5; 1 Vent. 293; 3 Keb. 607; 1 Barn. & Cress. 26. S. C. 8 Eng. Com. Law R. 14; Barnard. 162; Fitzgib. 66; Roscoe, Cr. Ev. 524; 2 Str. 834; 3 Barn. & Ald. 161; S. C. 5 Eng. Com. Law R. 249 Jeff. Rep. Appx. See 1 Cro. Jac. 421 Vent. 293; 3 Keb. 607; Cooke on Def. 74; 2 How. S. C. 11-ep. 127, 197 to 201.

CHURCH. In a moral or spiritual sense this word signifies a society of persons who profess the Christian religion; and in a physical or material sense, the place where such. persons assemble. The term church is nomen collectivum; it comprehends the chancel, aisles, and body of the churcb. Ham. N. P. 204.

2. By the English law, the terms church or chapel, and church-yard, are expressly recognized as in themselves correct and technical descriptions of the building and place, even in criminal proceedings. 8 B. & C. *25; 1 Salk. 256; 11 Co. 25 b; 2 Esp. 5, 28.

3. It is not within the plan of this work to give an account of the different local regulations in the United States respecting churches. References are here given to enable the inquirer to ascertain what they are, where such regulations are known to exist. 2 Mass. 500; 3 Mass. 166; 8 Mass. 96; 9 Mass. 277; Id. 254; 10 Mass. 323; 15 Mass. 296 16 Mass. 488; 6 Mass. 401; 10 Pick. 172 4 Day, C. 361; 1 Root 3, 440; Kirby, 45; 2 Caines' Cas. 336; 10 John. 217; 6 John. 85; 7 John. 112; 8 John. 464; 9 John. 147; 4 Desaus. 578; 5 Serg. & Rawle, 510; 11 Serg. & Rawle, 35; Metc. & Perk. Dig. h. t.; 4 Whart. 531.

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