In Reply to: A question I'm puzzling over posted by porceleindoll on July 18, 2003 at 18:39:51:
the only one the bible seems to refer to is the church.. "ecclesia"..the body of Christ.
as far as the church goes, even that seems to be a mixed bag. some held to "the doctrine of balaam", (rev.2:14) and tolerated jezebel false teachers (rev. 2:20), and even in the "dead" churches it says some were still clean (rev.3:4, 2:24) .
seems to be a matter of some true hearts and some false throughout the church. mt.13:24-30 seems to express the Lord's thoughts, imo. seems He is the only one who really needs to know at this stage.