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2ndGen
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How can a Christian trust a church “not” founded by Jesus Christ?
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Uncle_Norbert
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Through defiance of authority, part of human nature 
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FaithofAbraham
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How come they call RCC the Roman Church and not the Jesus Church?
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2ndGen
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First of all, it’s “official” name is The Universal Church (not The Roman Catholic Church). It’s referred to as the RCC to distinguish it from other rites of Catholicism.
The Universal Church has no attachment to any man (such as Lutherans, Calvinists, etc…), places (such as The Church of England, etc…) nor to events (such as Pentecostals, Baptists, etc…) or denominations (Evangelicals, Charismatics, etc…).
It’s name “universal” means all encompassing, the entire body of Christ.
Here’s a good explaination:
ewtn.com/faith/teachings/churb3.htm
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FaithofAbraham
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How come they didn’t call it the Universal Church of Jesus instead of the Romans?
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2ndGen
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Why stop at calling it The Universal Church of Jesus?
Why not add Christ?
Why not add Jesus Christ, The Son of God?
Why not add Jesus Christ, The Son of God, King of Kings?
(See where I’m going with this?)
And who said it’s called the church of the Romans?
Now, why is Islam “not” called The Followers of Allah?
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FaithofAbraham
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Jesus would be ok, at least the founder would have his name on it.
I can’t defend Islam, a lot of it is corrupted, I’ve said so all along.
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Harpazo
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They did, and still do, call it the Universal Church of Jesus, the Catholic Church. Catholic comes from the Greek word καθόλικος meaning universal.
Rome, is where St. Peter set up the See of Rome. It’s a misnomer to call the Catholic Churhc the “Roman Catholic Church” because the Catholic Church is a Communion of Churches, just as it always has been.
Pace e Bene
Andrew
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Well then, you have to ask Jesus why He didn’t reveal to His Church that He wanted it to be named after Him.
If you know Christ, then you’d come to find that He was the epitome of humility and never exhalted Himself. He always spoke of His Father’s will (not His own).
That should be a strong clue as to why He didn’t reveal to His Church that it should be named after Him.
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2ndGen
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Yep!They did, and still do, call it the Universal Church of Jesus, the Catholic Church. Catholic comes from the Greek word καθόλικος meaning universal.
Rome, is where St. Peter set up the See of Rome. It’s a misnomer to call the Catholic Churhc the “Roman Catholic Church” because the Catholic Church is a Communion of Churches, just as it always has been.
Pace e Bene
Andrew
And plus, The Church doesn’t reside “in” Rome, but in it’s own autonomous land (it is it’s own independant state in Italy).
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lukewarm
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“Catholic” means Universal, the “Catholic Church” is THE Church, Roman is simply the rite, there are 22 rites in the Catholic Church.
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FaithofAbraham
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Are any of them named after Jesus?
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FaithofAbraham
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He is going to write his new name on the believers and they are really the Church, so I don’t think he would mind if you called it the Church of Jesus.
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
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2ndGen
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I don’t know.
I’m still trying to learn my own Church before going on to learn anybody else’s church (and just leaning my Church is going to take the rest of my life so I won’t have time to focus on anybody else’s).
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