Why can the world not see the true Church founded by Jesus?

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Why can the world not see the true Church founded by Christ?
Exorcisms can be performed only a Priest.
Even satanists know the power of the Eucharist and what it actually means.
Many Saints bodies never decayed.
The Catholic Church has survived over 2,000 years, no human organisation would survive that long. Further proof the Church has devine origins.
 
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Why can the world not see the true Church founded by Christ?
Exorcisms can be performed only a Priest.
Even satanists know the power of the Eucharist and what it actually means.
Many Saints bodies never decayed.
The Catholic Church has survived over 2,000 years, no human organisation would survive that long. Further proof the Church has devine origins.
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In my opinion: gnosticism.
The idea that the Church is not really incarnate like Christ, that it is not visibly instituted, that it is an individualist and vague collection of believers without any charism of authority and without real continuity.

This puts bible-only Christians in a difficult position, because Christ clearly acted and spoke contrary to all of that.
 
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So many people in this day and age do not want to follow Jesus laws on marriage and holy marital relations. So many believe the Church is Jesus Holy Church, but blatantly don’t want to follow because they would rather have their own will and pleasure instead of the Holy will of God.
 
Sin darkens the intellect. The world lives in sin. So it literally cannot see what’s in front of its nose. To put it bluntly.
 
When the Church leaders got in bed with the Empire and powerful of society, they lost the many of the tenets taught by Jesus Christ. They took on wealth and power and even led armies and started wars.

I do not believe only a priest can perform exorcisms or forgive sins. Such ideas were promoted in order to keep people in line with the Church institution, not with Christ.

St Francis of Assisi was an example of what a Christian should be.

Whoever, believes in Jesus Christ and accepts them into their hearts, will have all that He wills them to have.
 
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The theory is called Divine Hiddeness. I think there is a video posted by the InspiringPhilosophy on youtube.

In short, GOD grace is universal, and objective. His Grace is not hidden. E.g. GOD salvation is always on the table, but a person with faith and eyes open, would see it as Gospel, and a person without faith will see it as a National culture and history of Israelis . In order for anything to happen, there must be a coincidence in subject and object.

As a non believer for a long part of my life. I have always found Christianity to be too mainstream, and it is irrational. Unfortunately, in our current age, Church has become a religion field on one’s life, and made to be seem negligible, and time wasting for a lot of young people.
 
Everything you stated has plausible deniability. Christians do a disservice to our credibility when we speak this way because many see it as treating them as children who cannot see the clear truth.

This kind of thinking also makes CAF seem like an echo chamber and it isn’t healthy for participants or newcomers.
 
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I disagree. I am merely stating facts. How is it not healthy for participants and newcomers?

The truth needs to be told.
 
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Jesus instituted the Sacrament of reconciliation to the Apostles (the first priests) telling them, “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. . . . Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (John 20:21–23).
 
These facts are really just claims which you haven’t supported with evidence. Non-Catholics obviously do not agree with the statements you made and see evidence for them as lacking. Treating them like blind children and receiving validation for doing such is what gives an echo-chamber feel to this discussion. It’s not about debate or exchange of ideas, it’s (excuse my crudeness) “I’m right, you’re stupid.” That may not be your intention, but that’s how it comes off to the reader.

Would any non-Catholic really want to be a part of a group that does this?
 
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I would argue that deep down everyone does know that Catholicism is true. Look at TV shows and horror movies and you see Catholic references everywhere because they recognize the authority of the Catholic Church. People just don’t want to follow it because it’s a rigorous belief system which leads many to rationalizing why they’re not Catholic. That’s why I think people are so fast to point out whatever errors they can in The Church because they want some kind of reassurance. Others are just more historically illiterate and haven’t really searched for the truth much.
 
Or…some of us just aren’t Catholic because we were born and raised in another Christian (or non-Christian) faith background…

It has nothing to do with rigors, reassurance or historical illiteracy.
 
St Francis of Assisi was called by God to rebuild His Church by God’s direct words implying the authority of The Church
 
And it sounds like you’re making a case for faith alone. I don’t think you could have chosen a saint whose life is more opposite that idea
 
The world as in wordliness never has and never will recognize Christ as King (seen or unseen). The world is like Herod. Why did, remind me again because it makes no sense still, Herod behead St. John the Baptist? Why couldn’t he just plead guilty and say he is sorry and then move on from there?
Answer this and you answer it all.
God alone knows why and probably that reason shall be the foundation of His Judgement. One of them at least because I imagine God has infinite reasons to judge the world.
 
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This is a natural phenomena, in the past we did not understand the science and considered it miraculous. We now know that any body exposed to the right conditions will be naturally mummified.

Jesus spoke of how sad it was that the people did not all accept Him during His earthly life.

Now, it is our job to “let your light shine before men that they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven”, to be salt and light as we will hear this weekend. We do our part and then step back and let the Holy Spirit do the job of convincing
 
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