The Body Of Christ

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In the Bible does it not say the church is the body of Christ,so that must be the first church so why do Catholic say they are the first church started in 33ad.
Is this statement right or wrong ? Thank you for all your help and I pray it gets posted.
 
Oh, but the Bible doesn’t have to explicitly say the Church is the body of Christ in order for the Church to call itself the body of Christ:

1 Tim. 3:15: if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

And that is hardly the only reference to the Church being more than a mere assembly of believers. Go here for more references.

The reason we say the Church began in 33 AD is because that is the day on which the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and other disciples, and when Peter preached for the first time as the earthly head of the Church.
 
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In the Bible does it not say the church is the body of Christ,so that must be the first church so why do Catholic say they are the first church started in 33ad.
Is this statement right or wrong ? Thank you for all your help and I pray it gets posted.
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The letter to the Ephesians 1:22-23 refers to the Church as the body of Christ. The link below gives a brief explanation of how the first Church came to be called the Catholic or Roman Catholic Church.

catholic.com/thisrock/1993/9304iron.asp
 
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