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The True Church and the Bible
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Posted on 05/16/2015 4:53:17 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

TRUE CHURCH and BIBLE

Catholic Church History Facts

When did the Church established by Jesus Christ get the name Catholic?

Christ left the adoption of a name for His Church to those whom he commissioned to teach all nations. Christ called the spiritual society He established, "My Church" (Mt. xvi, 18), "the Church" (Mt. xviii, 17).

In order to have a distinction between the Church and the Synagogue and to have a distinguishing name from those embracing Judaic and Gnostic errors we find St. Ignatius (50-107 AD) using the Greek word "Katholicos" (universal) to describe the universality of the Church established by Christ. St. Ignatius was appointed Bishop of Antioch by St. Peter, the Bishop of Rome. It is in his writings that we find the word Catholic used for the first time. St. Augustine, when speaking about the Church of Christ, calls it the Catholic Church 240 times in his writings.

St. Ignatius of Antioch, disciple of the Apostle John, concerning the heretics of his day wrote: "They have abstained from the Eucharist and prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of Our Savior Jesus Christ."

St. Justin Martyr, another Church Father of the second century wrote: "This food is known among us as the Eucharist... We do not receive these things as common bread and common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Savior, being made flesh by the Word of God."

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To: NKP_Vet

Forty five years ago I was of a mind that if there was a disagreement on Biblical teaching all we had to do was go to the scriptures or not go there depending if it was there or not.

You could not always convince some one or they could not always convince you.

But at least if you pointed out something Jesus said they did not retaliate by saying Oh Yeah well that is not what Paul said.

The point is that so many people are going to stick to their way of thinking regardless of what Jesus said or what he did not say.

I don`t know anything about St. Ignatius and at this stage in life have no desire to become a Bible scholar just to become acquainted with him.

I believe the holy spirit gave us what we need to know by bringing us the Bible through men who was far from holy and in many cases against their will.

And there might even be a few mistakes or rather contradictions in the Bible but who cares? we have all we need to know.

I have been reminded that it took the great scholars to put the scriptures together, big deal.

I am just glad the scriptures of the N.T were not written by the great scholars but were written by people mostly who had very little education.

When Jesus was telling them that they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood he also said.

If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

If we except the words of Jesus we are eating his flesh and drinking his blood.

Many of his disciples left him because they believed he was speaking literal even though he told them the flesh profited nothing.

I also can see the Catholic`s view point on some other issues.


41 posted on 05/17/2015 5:33:37 AM PDT by ravenwolf (s letters scripture.)
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To: Yosemitest

Just kidding, we all know that the Church of Jim Jones was the true Church, or maybe the Church of Joel Osteen. Pardon me for being so stupid.


42 posted on 05/17/2015 5:35:57 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("All the evils in the world are due to lukewarm Catholics" ~ Pope Pius V)
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To: NKP_Vet
Any historical documentation that shows the Catholic Church to be the one true church is immediately discredited and slammed by the usual Catholic bashers on FR. Same story, different day.

And as the catholic facts have been proven incorrect, the question begs to be asked.....why do you keep posting the same false narrative over and over again?

43 posted on 05/17/2015 5:39:37 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: NKP_Vet
Just kidding, we all know that the Church of Jim Jones was the true Church, or maybe the Church of Joel Osteen. Pardon me for being so stupid.

Or maybe all those churches devoted to Mary in the catholic organization??

44 posted on 05/17/2015 5:42:11 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Mark17
You done did it now

One RC fantasy after another exposed by God's grace, from eating the flesh of the Son of Man and drinking his blood being required in order to obtain spiritual life, to the premise that an assuredly infallible magisterium is essential for God to provide and preserve Truth, to "One billion Catholics perfectly, indomitably united in belief, in organization, and in worship."

45 posted on 05/17/2015 5:47:26 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Yosemitest

They aren’t done away with.

They are not binding on the Christian who died to the Law and is now under grace in Christ.


46 posted on 05/17/2015 5:56:12 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: NKP_Vet
Any historical documentation that shows the Catholic Church to be the one true church is immediately discredited and slammed by the usual Catholic bashers on FR. Same story, different day.

Well, when the "historical documentation" is continually shown to be contrary to God's word, it IS discredited. All we're doing is pointing out the FACTS that disprove the cult of Roman Catholicism.

Care to state whether or not you agree with your church that you worship the same 'merciful God' as Muslims? CCC 841 plainly states that Roman Catholics do. Do you agree with Rome? Or are you poorly catechized?

Hoss

47 posted on 05/17/2015 6:02:45 AM PDT by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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To: Elsie; metmom
20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Affirmative sir. Your name is written in Heaven, my name is written in Heaven. I do not plan to wait till I die to see if it is possible that I might be good enough for St Pete to open them pearly gates, and let me in. If others want to do it, that's on them, but it ain't gonna cut the mustard for me. 🇵🇭🙊

48 posted on 05/17/2015 6:02:47 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forever more endure.)
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To: NKP_Vet

‘S’alrite.


49 posted on 05/17/2015 6:03:59 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: NKP_Vet
The one true church is the Corintian church.

Paul says so right here in his letter to the Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 12:27. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

In the first chapter, when he was rebuking the Corintian church for infighting he did mention Peter and yet NEVER took the opportunity to assert Peter's alleged supremacy, which would have been the perfect time to do so. He never even mentioned it.

50 posted on 05/17/2015 6:05:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
You have been deceived.
That is Satan's trick.

Read again And read again:
Are we not judged by our INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS ?
Shouldn't judgement begin with US ?

Our ACTIONS matter as we go through this fiery trial, and every action we take, every idle word we speak, we WILL answer for.

And so it has been written, and so IT SHALL BE DONE.

Can you remember reading about "a thorn in their side"?

    "But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you;
      then it shall come to pass,
        that those which ye let remain of them
          shall be pricks in your eyes,
          and thorns in your sides,
          and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
    Moreover
      it shall come to pass,
        that I shall do unto you,
          as I thought to do unto them."

Someone once said: They may be more to it than that.
Doing is important.
I believe the "fiery trial" has already started.
We haven't been very diligent " ... to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses ... "
and there are consequences for our actions and in-actions.
We are living in the time of those consequences.
51 posted on 05/17/2015 6:06:14 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Kolokotronis

bookmark


52 posted on 05/17/2015 6:11:05 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: vladimir998

“Sure they can. Internal markers help. You never did any manuscript studies of any sort did you? Paleography? Philology? Anything at all? I did.”

Yes, but there is a difference between “help” and authoritatively.


53 posted on 05/17/2015 6:15:27 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: NKP_Vet

“Any historical documentation that shows the Catholic Church to be the one true church is immediately discredited and slammed by the usual Catholic bashers on FR. Same story, different day.”

If it were true, I would not discount its historical value.


54 posted on 05/17/2015 6:16:29 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Yosemitest

The righteous life of Christ has been credited to my account, the record of debt standing against me having been nailed to the cross.

Salvation is by faith in Christ, and even if we are judged by our deeds, since I have Christ’s righteous credited to my account, that’s what God sees, so I don’t need to have my own, which are not really righteous in the first place.

More later.

I will provide any Scripture references later today if you want. when I’m on my home computer.

If I don’t answer for several hours, I’m not ignoring you. I’m travelijng.


55 posted on 05/17/2015 6:16:30 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ealgeone
And as the catholic facts have been proven incorrect, the question begs to be asked.....why do you keep posting the same false narrative over and over again?

What are you doing, writing a book? 😂😆 Actually, I was kind of wondering the same thing myself. I guess it will just have to remain one of life's great mysteries.

56 posted on 05/17/2015 6:17:02 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forever more endure.)
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To: vladimir998

“authenticity of those letters is verified by Polycarp and Eusebius who give the contents and order of the letters.”

No, there remain deep problems with the books, the different versions of the books, the dates, and the historicity of Ignatius.


57 posted on 05/17/2015 6:19:14 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: metmom
What are the wages of sin?
What IS sin?
Was "the Sabbath" kept BEFORE Sinai?
What have you learned from 1 John 2:3, 4?
Does Gen. 20:1-9 teach you that "the Law" was enforced long before Sinai?
Who made the Sabbath ( John 1:1-3Gen. 2:2-3) ?
Do you even know what a perpetual covenant IS ?
Is that SIGN for Israel ONLY ( Romans 1:16, Galatians 3:28-29 )?
SO ... do YOU WEAR the SIGN ... or ... the MARK of the beast?

Think you, God forbid !

A wise man one said in a meeting I attended in person: Don't fall into Satan's deception of believing that God's Laws , The Ten Commandments are done away with.
58 posted on 05/17/2015 7:01:17 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: NKP_Vet

So you’ve been taught.

Only Constantinople had removed Rome from the Diptychs in the early 11th century, and come the date you Latins favor for the schism, Patriarch Michael only anathamatized the very rude Cardinal Humbert, not the Pope of Rome. The other Eastern Patriarchates were still in communion with Rome, or so they thought, until the Crusaders started forcibly installing bishops in occupied sees making it clear that you Latins felt you confessed a different faith from us. We didn’t change the Creed in defiance of decrees of the Ecumenical Council and contrary to the plain word of Scripture, we didn’t change ecclesiology, we didn’t introduce novel doctrines about purgatorial fire, the West did.

Your version of events hangs on the thin reed of the papal claims, which even folks in your communion at that time your First Vatican Council doubted, and which the East had never accepted — numerous canons of the Ecumenical Councils and of councils given ecumenical force at the Sixth make no sense if the ancient and undivided Church had believe your ecclesiology. The weight of patristic opinion is that the rock on which the Church is founded is Peter’s confession, not Peter’s person. Even were the latter true, it is rather a stretch to get from there to the monarchical papacy and an ecclesiology contrary to that found in both St. Ignatius and St. Cyprian on the basis of the poetic identification of sees with their founder, a stretch the Popes of Rome themselves only made as they gradually arrogated power to themselves (cf. St. Gregory the Dialogist’s objection to the title Ecumenical Patriarch being applied to the Patriarch of Constantinople, based on misunderstanding ecumencial as universal, rather than “for the oecume” meaning the Empire, which no longer contained the city of Rome, and which objection explicitly both denies the universal authority of the Pope of Rome and acknowledges the Petrine foundations of Antioch and Alexandria (St. Peter consecrated St. Mark the Evangelist to be the first Bishop of Alexandraia)), a process only completed after your schism when the Popes started arrogantly claiming that being in communion with the Pope of Rome was necessary for salvation.


59 posted on 05/17/2015 7:09:56 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: HossB86

“God’s word”.

Is what that Catholic document called the Bible tells you it is.


60 posted on 05/17/2015 7:19:32 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("All the evils in the world are due to lukewarm Catholics" ~ Pope Pius V)
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