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Your way of thinking did not arise until nearly fifteen hundred years AFTER Christ. Think about that.

And baiting was EXACTLY what he was doing.

I was reading from my Bible..not from any-thing that happened 1300years after the Western Church split from the Eastern church, with the western church declaring itself as the ONLY BODY AS TO WHOM GOD GRANTED AUTHORITY ON EARTH!

Chewbacca was saying that it is the baptism of the heart and the empowering of the Holy Spirit on the inside of a man's heart with a subsequent change of behaviour that are the true marks of a man's Salvation. I dare say many Baptists as well as Catholics may not be saved for they may have substituted outer rituals for true inner life (In order not to have that inner life ruled by God...a pride thing!).

Are you familiar with the parable of the sower of the seed? The seed that fell on the good ground reproduced some 30,60, then 100 fold. Each one of those seeds produced a parent plant that in turn produced multiple other seeds. This was not just about individuals who were saved but also about the multiple GOD breathed institutions that would arise thru history to organize the spreading of the Gospel and to give solace and succour to the faithful OF WHICH THE WESTERN NOW CALLED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS TO BE ONE OF MANY!

THE CHURCH IS NOT ABOUT ONE VATICAN RULED BUREAUCRACY...but about about a tiny mustard seed that grew and grew...

Heaven resists the complications men would ascribe to her!

Apparently the Eastern church had some of the same thoughts as those who came 1500 years later..hence the first major schism.