Which Church is God's true Church, and why? Is it the Roman Catholic Church?

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By the time that the last book of the New Testament was written about 100 A.D., the church which Jesus Christ founded was already on its fifth successor of Peter.
 
Catholicism numbers some 1.5 billion members. All professing the same faith, using the same Sacraments, living under the same discipline, Protestants claims roughly around 100 million of Christians, products of the Gospel and the fancies of a hundred Reformer’s, people constantly bewailing their “unhappy divisions” and vainly crying for a union which is only possible under that very central authority, Protestanism, against which is their only common denominator.
 
SIA said:
Does Jesus put a name on his Church in the Scriptures?
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Didn’t need to. The bible is the product of the CHURCH. The Church existed before any of the New Testament was written. There was no other Church but the CC before 1054 AD. It’s that simple.
 
OneTrueCathApos said:
Catholicism numbers some 1.5 billion members. All professing the same faith, using the same Sacraments, living under the same discipline, Protestants claims roughly around 100 million of Christians, products of the Gospel and the fancies of a hundred Reformer’s, people constantly bewailing their “unhappy divisions” and vainly crying for a union which is only possible under that very central authority, Protestanism, against which is their only common denominator.
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True. Unless protestantism has a visible, centralized leader with authority, there is no hope for unity in protestantdome.
 
Tomster said:
And by thinking that, you would be incorrect.To understand the essence of Catholicism I refer you to the Pauline doctrine of the Church. Sacraments, hierarchy, veneration of the saints, the function of Our Lady in the Christian economy, eschatology, bodily resurrection, ethics - all these, even to the doctrine of indulgences, flow naturally from the solidarity of the Church, as St. Paul taught his converts. Without this basic doctrine they are disconnected and meaningless, like parts of a building whose plan is untraced, or the organs of a plant whose functions in the life of that plant are not understood. In the life of this doctrine they are seen as the necessary parts of one harmonious edifice, as the mutually adapted organs of one life. For St. Paul the Church is one body. By this he means that it is a society of individual souls diverse in function, but moved and vivified by one common life principle or soul, the Holy Spirit. In the human body all the members and even the cells are vivified and moved and directed by the one soul. It is true that the cells have their subordinate life; but while the body lives the cell-life is obedient to the soul-life and receptive to that life. The independent action of the cells only leads to the disintegration of the body. So all the members of the Christian society, are in proportion to their possession of sanctifying grace and to their obedience to it, vivified and moved by God through the indwelling of the Spirit in their souls. As a man advances in grace, the Spirit possesses, dominates, and fashions his soul with increasing fullness, until at last when the work of sanctification is complete, his entire soul-life is moved and vivified by the Spirit. Then every soul-act is an act not only of the human agent, though it is always his human act, but at the same time an act of the Spirit received in his soul.
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Thanks for referring to Paul, as I think you need to re-read it and understand it. I am absolutely Scripturally correct in my assessment.
 
jay29 said:
Didn’t need to. The bible is the product of the CHURCH. The Church existed before any of the New Testament was written. There was no other Church but the CC before 1054 AD. It’s that simple.
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The problem came when the power grab and dissent from true teaching came, and it went from catholic to Catholic.
 
avenger said:
The problem came when the power grab and dissent from true teaching came, and it went from catholic to Catholic.
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OMG, no matter what proof, what evidence you are shown, you just refuse to accept the true teachings of Jesus Christ. You know, pride is a deadly sin…🤷
 
OneTrueCathApos said:
OMG, no matter what proof, what evidence you are shown, you just refuse to accept the true teachings of Jesus Christ. You know, pride is a deadly sin…🤷
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Yes pride is dangerous, which makes your point of view so dangerous. Your church rather be prideful and take the word of man over the Word of God. Jesus warned against taking the way of man over the Way of God, and yet your church does this constantly. If THAT isnt the sin of pride, I dont know what is.
 
avenger said:
Yes pride is dangerous, which makes your point of view so dangerous. Your church rather be prideful and take the word of man over the Word of God. Jesus warned against taking the way of man over the Way of God, and yet your church does this constantly. If THAT isnt the sin of pride, I dont know what is.
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Every 30,000 denomination is man made, except for the Catholic church…unless you call Jesus the man.
 
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