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I told the people that He intended to establish only ONE Church - the CC - and copied and pasted from “Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth”:
**The Church Is One (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13, CCC 813–822)
**Jesus established only one Church, not a collection of differing churches (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, and so on). The Bible says the Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23–32). Jesus can have but *one *spouse, and his spouse is the Catholic Church. His Church also teaches just one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity of belief to which Scripture calls us (Phil. 1:27, 2:2). Although some Catholics dissent from officially-taught doctrines, the Church’s official teachers—the pope and the bishops united with him—have never changed any doctrine. Over the centuries, as doctrines are examined more fully, the Church comes to understand them more deeply (John 16:12–13), but it never understands them to mean the opposite of what they once meant.
One of them asked me, “…so are Catholics going to Heaven then…” and they thought that non-Catholics weren’t. I don’t think that’s what the quote was saying. How can I explain this to them without them getting like that?
**The Church Is One (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13, CCC 813–822)
**Jesus established only one Church, not a collection of differing churches (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, and so on). The Bible says the Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23–32). Jesus can have but *one *spouse, and his spouse is the Catholic Church. His Church also teaches just one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity of belief to which Scripture calls us (Phil. 1:27, 2:2). Although some Catholics dissent from officially-taught doctrines, the Church’s official teachers—the pope and the bishops united with him—have never changed any doctrine. Over the centuries, as doctrines are examined more fully, the Church comes to understand them more deeply (John 16:12–13), but it never understands them to mean the opposite of what they once meant.
One of them asked me, “…so are Catholics going to Heaven then…” and they thought that non-Catholics weren’t. I don’t think that’s what the quote was saying. How can I explain this to them without them getting like that?