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To: avile
The jerusalem Church led by Jesus's brother James preceded the RCC

LOL! The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church was founded in Jerusalem by the Apostles, who received the Holy Ghost. The Twelve went throughout the known world at that time. Peter went to Rome, to minister to the Christians who were already there. All of the churches founded by the Apostles are part of the same Church. The term "Roman Catholic" isn't the Church's official name.

47 posted on 01/03/2006 10:46:43 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Pyro7480

BTW, "Catholic" means "Universal" and was the name chosen for the official Church of the Universal Empire of Rome. It is just the name, not the substance.
And there is a clear sucession from the Cross at the Golgota, the martyrs of the reigns of Nero, Decius, Diocletian/Galerius, the Church established by the councils in the fourth century


58 posted on 01/03/2006 10:56:32 AM PST by gaslucas1
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To: Pyro7480; avile

When you follow the example of the Apostles in keeping the Torah as they did (Acts 21), and put aside bowing down before graven images in open defiance of the Second Commandment, then you can attempt to claim to be the Apostles' successors. Until then, you have no better claim (and worse than some) than any who claim to be of the Church of Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach.


82 posted on 01/03/2006 1:02:03 PM PST by Buggman (L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!)
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