Protestant service last night.

[highrigger1]

High,

There is an Oriental Orthodox Church that dates its history to the 5th century. They daparted leaving One Church divided into two.

The Eastern Orthodox dates its history to the year 1000 when it split with the Roman Catholic Church leaving One Church divided in three.

How does your opinion that there was no Roman Catholic Church when the Bible was written compare to these facts?

If the Eastern Orthodox split from the Roman Catholic Church in the year 1000 then the Roman Catholic Church must have existed so as to split from. Try and tell an Eastern Orthodox that they did not exist prior to the year 1000.

coptic,

The bible was written long before the 5th century. By 1000AD there was a RCC and a OOC. But not when the bible was written and not for centuries later. I thought however the OOC departed in the 6th and not as early as the 5th. Am I wrong. This is what a OOC guy told me once.

Peace, JohnR

 

[stewstew03]

Hey,…were you at my house while I was growing up? I was baptized, 1st Communion, got Confirmed into the Church, left at 16. Got saved / born again, etc at the age of 20 in a Pentecostal Holiness church in 2001. Left there in 2005 after the church split. Church floated from 2005-2008, then from 2008 - present I attended a Conservative Mennonite church while getting involved in the Hebrew Roots Movement / Messianic Judaism. I am now on my way back home to the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church. Woohooooo :extrahappy:
I came from a non Catholic Christian home. Yes, my mom was and still is a cradle Catholic so I went to Mass once per week and confession once or twice per year and of course CCD and confirmation classes. But that’s where anything Christian stopped. There were never any prayers said at home. No Bible reading…didn’t even know we had a Bible till I seen some red book on the shelf one day. I asked mom what it was and she said it was Grandma’s Bible. I grew up very secular. My parents were divorced. My dad wasn’t anything.
My mom is 66 years old. She has never even picked up a Bible, has a potty mouth that would make the Pope cringe, yet she is still faithful to Mass every day. Once in a while when things get tough she tells me she’s praying the rosary.

If I will say one thing, it will be this… train your children up in the way they should go and when he is old he will not turn from it…Proverbs 22:6

I had the SAME experience! Except, my parents were Presbyterians… go figure.

 

[CatherineOH]

Ok, so I went to a Non-denominational service last night. …

… when he spoke negatively of Protestantism, it was mainly the Lutheran, Anglican, or Methodist churches (probably because they werent enough like his church). Of course he only had good things to say about his own brand of Protestantism…

… I know a lot of what this preacher said was nonsense. Should I have walked out? Should I not have gotten so upset? This pastor was using his position and attacking the Catholic church as idolatrus and false. Not sure whether it was ignorance or malice. It seems as though my misgivings about attending were confirmed.

I welcome any thoughts on this

Coming from Lutheran and Methodist, this does not surprise me. That is why in my teens I ceased attending anything other than Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican, or Catholic Services. I have converted fully to Roman Catholic this Easter…

What you experienced is also what I have experienced of most of the other denominations of Christianity. Worse, Other than those I mention above, they only believe the Bread and Wine are but symbols and is not the Actual Body and Blood of Christ. Thank God I was not raised in that environment and that I was raised to fully believe that the Bread and Wine ARE the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately What you experiences was not just a Non-Denominational, but also obviously a Non-Christian church… For a christian would not have put up with such things coming from the pulpit, nor would a true apostle of the word have said such things against other Christians. I have walked out of services and even Christmas Cantatas for less. I would have told my friend in a clear voice that I would wait for them in the foyer, or if the weather was good, outside the door., and why.

You went there for your friend, not to hear Christ attacked.