Do you believe there is one true church?

[jmcrae]

Q. Why is it wrong to base you faith and practice upon God’s Holy Word?

Nothing at all. God’s Holy Word comes to us in the Church, in three ways: the teaching of the Magisterium, the Scriptures, and the Holy Tradition. We must pay attention to all three of these, in order to fully understand God’s Word.

That’s why we have to be members of the Church - so that we can fully hear God’s Word, and not just a small portion of it.

 

[Aaron409]

Because these reformist were much misguided in their teaching. Mr Calvin believes people are born and are predestined for hell. Tell me how that makes sense. Also jesus says this is my body and this is my blood. How can Luther misconstrue that and think he means otherwise.

 

[Joero]

I’ve been puzzled since then why I can not find in any standard references that would tell us about a human (not Jesus Christ) who founded the catholic church. While the other churches, including the non-christian, we can find it in standard references and no doubt they are founded by human beings like us. If it could be proven otherwise, what particular standard reference is that (not including the bible)?

 

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Because these reformist were much misguided in their teaching. Mr Calvin believes people are born and are predestined for hell. Tell me how that makes sense.

Yeah, that’s exactly wht i have always thouhgt. I could never understand anyone believing that…

Isn’t it amazing what some people will believe? Yet most only believe because they don’t know… they are ignorant…

Others… once a religion’s teaching is made clear… some keep on believing it, apparently… which is all the more reason we who know better need to always try to find ways to inform people of the truth… …

 

[Joero]

Well, one of the factors is that when a child is born from parents belonging to a distinctive religion, of course that child would grow up brimgimg with him/her the beliefs of the religion of his/her parents, and that’s obviously true. Only when the child grows up intellectually that he/she begins to scrutinize the truth of all surrounding his/her religion and its teachings. Of course it needs one to be a liberal-minded in doing this, or else, he/she would end up closing the doors.

 

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. Only when the child grows up intellectually that he/she begins to scrutinize the truth of all surrounding his/her religion and its teachings.

Some question “too much”…but oh well… God will lead a person if the person allows Him to…

Of course it needs one to be a liberal-minded in doing this, or else, he/she would end up closing the doors.

Please explain “liberal-minded”???

What is your religious background???

 

[Joero]

Some question “too much”…but oh well… God will lead a person if the person allows Him to…

Please explain “liberal-minded”???

What is your religious background???

Sorry for my late response because a malfunction of my PC prohibits me to do so.

As to the former question, liberal-minded, in my point of view is the attitude of being flexible to learn things which are obscure on your part of understanding and to know how to evaluate your understanding in comparison to the understanding of others.

As to the latter, I think we are of the same house, Catholic.

 

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liberal-minded, in my point of view is the attitude of being flexible to learn things which are obscure on your part of understanding and to know how to evaluate your understanding in comparison to the understanding of others.

this is my definition of OPEN-minded, not liberal… I hate the word “liberal”… it conjures up terrible images for me (baby-killers, etc…)…

And even open-minded doens’t always sound so good.

I heard this priest once say: “Be open-minded, but not so open-minded your brains fall out.”

 

[Joero]

this is my definition of OPEN-minded, not liberal… I hate the word “liberal”… it conjures up terrible images for me (baby-killers, etc…)…

And even open-minded doens’t always sound so good.

I heard this priest once say: “Be open-minded, but not so open-minded your brains fall out.”

I guess the exact word I should used is " broad-minded ", but seems to be of wide range of knowability since our topic here is only about the religion.

Sorry, if the word " liberal-minded" irritated your senses.

On my part, I’m not strict in the use of english as long as it can be understood, or else this website should be strictly for the highly educated only, and I would be the first one to move out, since I’m just an ordinary man who knows english but not fluent.

 

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Sorry, if the word " liberal-minded" irritated your senses.

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I’m sorry if my being “irritated” irritated you…

No, if only “educated” people were allowed to come here… well, never - mind…



God bless.

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

Is there only one true Christian church?

I would like your answer to this question.

In other words: Did Jesus intend for there to be so many different churches? Why / why not??

Several answers are possible, because the Church includes a variety of true meanings - which is why it is possible to say:​

• the Church is one in Christ
  without being able to be so definite as to what social form or forms it may or should or must take. And it sounds as though your question is about the social form of the Church: that is, what sort of arrangements as a society are to be found in in it, & are they:
• positively willed by Christ
• compatible with His Will
• contrary to His Will
  **The Church is not a Platonic Idea: it is a communion of Churches; & if these Churches, which are themselves made up of churches of individual persons, did not exist, the Church Universal would not exist in time & space: it would be an empty set. Whether its existence in Christ would be affected, The saying “Where Christ is, there is the Church”, can be given more meaning than one. **

**IMO, the continuity of the Church is assured not by any events on earth, but by the presence of the ****Church “in Christ”. If it ceased to exist on earth, it would still exist in Him. It would lack existence in space & time, but nothing else: to be in Him, is its fullest form of existence; without that, it would not be the Church on earth at all, but an empty shadow, even if it were to have uncounted millions of members. **

 

[Joero]

These standard references, if only people would have read these, they would have moments to ponder on the subject and ask themselves why none any standard references talked about any other church like this.

" There are two equally valid definitions of the Catholic Church, comparable to the two fold nature of Jesus Christ, its founder, who was both human and divine. "
( International Encyclopedia Vol. 15 pp. 520 )

" The Catholic Church … is the divine society founded by Jesus Christ, endowed by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. This name denotes the body of the faithful in communion with the Bishop of Rome hence it is often called the Roman Catholic Church. "
( Grollier’s Encyclopedia Vol. 5 pp. 106 )

 

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And it sounds as though your question is about the social form of the Church: that is, what sort of arrangements as a society are to be found in in it, & are they:​

Actaully, i thought the question asked whether there was supposed to be only one Church?? I mean, if there is only one Church, it kinds of stands to reason that it would have the “social form” it was ordained to have…

I am not sure i understand the rest of the post… It could be i am in too much of a hurry (running out of time…)… and can’t focus on it… very well.