It is only God who give approval.
Isaiah 55: 8-9 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
those people who believe and follow Jesus are called church. Church is not a building its the people who obey God. no religion has been mentioned in the bible.
Who did St Ignatius of Antioch study under? Who is this Catholic Church? And what about Jesus Christ being wherever this Church is? This goes back ultimately to my previous post on the “you” and what the “you” was hearing.
See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Christ Jesus does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles. Do ye also reverence the deacons, as those that carry out the appointment of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as,
wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church." Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrneans, 8:2
(c. A.D. 110).
And then there was Irenaeus…
“[N]or does it consist in this, that he should again falsely imagine, as being above this [fancied being], a Pleroma at one time supposed to contain thirty, and at another time an innumerable tribe of Aeons, as these teachers who are destitute of truly divine wisdom maintain; **while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, **as we have already said.” Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1:10,3 (A.D. 180).
I think your thoughts are wrong.
