Well you must stand where you do and follow whatever it is that you see. I was not there for those Councils so I won't speak against you, but you should not expect me to speak for you based on man's written history. I've been accused here of not believing in history, but that is not so. I simply refuse to treat history as greater than the "his story" of some man or men who lived and died long before I was born as being a basis for what I believe. I believe that God inspired men to write the Bible. The problem is that without a similar inspiration no man can correctly decipher God's message to men as it is written even in the scriptures.
The instruction, "It seems good to us and the Holy Spirit" when it applies it a good one, but I would not apply such words too easily as binding on the whole Church. On a few things more than once in my experience I have seen two or three gathered together in His name so that He really was there in our midst, but this has always [in my experience] been only with very small groups. The larger the group the less likely it was to be applicable. This is not because of the unwillingness of God, but because of people. Wishing that it were so doesn't change what most men, even believers, are altogether too often... that is: Not in His name. I have been too often one of those found Not in His name to say more on this.
Every step taken in the right direction is a good step, but until the final step is taken, it may in the end of the matter still all be for nought in the eyes of God.
