And it includes Protestants ! No popes !!!Amen, and that Church is this.
And it includes Protestants ! No popes !!!Amen, and that Church is this.
where do you get the truth?
From scripture,
where do you get the truth?
your interpretation?
Through the mystical union between the Lord Jesus Christ and the Church, what He said here should be interpreted and understood in the same sense in which He told Saul, after Saul threatened violence "against the disciples of the Lord" (Ac9:1): "Why persecutest thou me? . . . I am Jesus whom thou persecutest...." Acts 9:4-5From Jesus;
John 14:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Through the mystical union between the Lord Jesus Christ and the Church, what He said here should be interpreted and understood in the same sense in which He told Saul, after Saul threatened violence "against the disciples of the Lord" (Ac9:1): "Why persecutest thou me? . . . I am Jesus whom thou persecutest...." Acts 9:4-5
John 14:6 means that you're not coming to the Father except as a member of the Lord's Church.
Correct."THE" Church is the Universal Catholic Church.
Incorrect.RCC don't like that.
What you believe is derived from your preferred recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sect---including your personal interpretations of Scripture.What I believe is derived from scripture...
What you believe is derived from your preferred recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sect---including your personal interpretations of Scripture.
And listen to a non-bishoptized ordianed pastorthe church is a place to gather in His name
-today is sunday
-go to church
-pray
-worship
-with others
Chrysostom is a ordianed.And listen to a non-bishoptized ordianed pastor
So am I but from a Chinese monk who lived in the emei mountains.Chrysostom is a ordianed.
You seem blissfully unaware that, with respect to what you believe and do as a Christian, you also "have been told what to believe and how to worship." Thus, your accusation applies equally to yourself, and to every single other member of TOL.Since you seem to be unable to read scriptures for yourself and have to be told what to believe and how to worship I truly pity you.
It isn't. The myriad non-Catholic denominations and sects that have sprung up over the past five centuries, however, are---every one of them---invented by some mere man or men, including yours.How can a universal Catholic Church be man made sect?
who else has history?
-who else has survived the test of time?
Holy Catholicism is more than a religion. It is not less than, but is more than a religion. Plus, when we speak about history, we're talking about the physical, visible, even obvious, organization or corporation, that is traced directly back through the ages to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, Who said, "I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build." Matthew 16:17-18
What He would build, is in a sense beside the point, that He said He will build. What did He build? And should whatever He did build, assuming that He did indeed build, still be visible? If He were building an obelisk, if instead of saying He would build His Church, but instead said that He would build "His obelisk," should we expect that His obelisk still stands today? Yes, because whatever He means in saying that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against" His obelisk, we should at least believe that He meant that His obelisk would not ever be knocked down or destroyed.
Compare with the Temple.