[SampleMan]

Show me in scripture where there is more than one church. Not there, so de facto if you aren't in the Church, you are not a follower. As the canon quotes were from 1215, the issue of how to rate each of the thousands of different strip mall Christian doctrine outlets, wasn't the big issue. I'll leave it to God to damn or not damn when judging snake handlers, Anglicans, and Methodists. I've associated with quite a few of them that were God fearing believers, so I'd like to think he'll take them in.

Heck, I even hope he forgives those who spew unenlightened, bigoted, anti-Catholic, vitriol.

[CynicalBear]

>>Show me in scripture where there is more than one church.<<

Heads up. This is Scripture

Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

>>As the canon quotes were from 1215<<

No, no, no. That's not scripture.

[Fantasywriter]

‘Show me in scripture where there is more than one church.’

The New Testament/Greek word for ‘church’ was/is ‘ekklesia.’ It means “assembly,” or “gathering.” Wherever people who believed in Jesus as the Christ, the Lord and the Savior assembled, there was an ‘ekklesia,’ or an “assembly.”

[Fantasywriter]

One more interesting aspect of the New Testament word for ‘church.’ ‘Ekklesia’ was also the secular word for “assembly” or “gathering.” It only took on religious connotations when it was Christians who were assembled; otherwise, the word didn’t mean ‘church’ at all, in the religious sense. It only meant, “assembly.”

[metmom]

Not there, so de facto if you aren't in the Church, you are not a follower

As usual, backwards Catholic thinking.

It's not *if you aren't in the Church, you are not a follower*

It's *if you aren't a follower, you aren't part of the church*.

Nobody becomes a follower of Christ by joining a church.

People become the church by following Christ.

[metmom]

Heck, I even hope he forgives those who spew unenlightened, bigoted, anti-Catholic, vitriol.

Oh, the irony........

[Elsie]

Show me in scripture where there is more than one church.

Well, John mentioned seven in Asia in Revelation.

[Elsie]

...the issue of how to rate each of the thousands of different strip mall Christian doctrine outlets, wasn't the big issue.

The 7 in Asia seems to have been QUITE a big deal to GOD; they all seemed to have different doctrines.

[Elsie]

... they all seemed to have different doctrines.

Poorly catechized folks from the getgo.

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