Mr. Iscool: Ignorance is NOT cool. I am willing make you a substantial bet that you know nothing about what you are talking about. The 1700 years you refer to suggests that you think the Catholic Church began in 300 AD. Do you base this on a study of the history of the early Church? Have you read the writings of Christians of the second and third century. Evidently not, because if you had, you would know that the Catholic Church existed and was called the Catholic Church from the time of the apostles on. The first recorded reference to “the Catholic Church” is in the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch, a bishop who had learned the faith from St. John himself, and who died as a martyr to the faith in the year 107 AD. St. Polycarp of Smyrna, another important early bishop who was martyred in 155 AD also writes of “the Catholic Church”. The great bishop St. Cyprian of Carthage
(who also died as a martyr, in 256 AD), wrote an entire theological treatise entitled “On the Unity of the Catholic Church”.
Please don’t blaspheme by thanking God for your ignorance. God did not make you ignorant, That was your own doing. Rather, ask God to give you the grace to seek the truth. You are sure you are going to heaven? That means that you don’t “work out your salvation in fear and trembling” as St. Paul told us to do?
Please, before you set yourself up as an authority, learn more.
Paul did not say, 'work FOR your salvation in fear and trembling"...
Work and out are two different words...You can easily tell that because they are not spelled the same...
Work For and out are two different words...You can easily tell that because they are not spelled the same...