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To: Glenmerle
No other denomination has a rightful claim to this mandate but those which enjoy Apostolic succession.

So prove that statement wrong if you can. Show where Christ established many churches with diverse beliefs.

114 posted on 10/15/2007 2:42:23 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki
Show where Christ established many churches with diverse beliefs.

Show where Christ established the Roman Catholic Church (you may also want to discuss the concept of Christ's first church with apostolic Protestant groups and the Eastern Orthodox Church). Christ established his church, full of human beings who would differ -- some honestly, some not -- on certain matters.

But I reject the premise implicit in your post. The Catholic Church is not a church that has existed, unchanged, since Peter's time. That's nonsense. In fact, the RCC became so thoroughly corrupt at certain times in its history that people of good faith had to leave it.

The Church is where Christ is, and in some times and some places that has not been the RCC.

121 posted on 10/15/2007 3:25:22 PM PDT by Glenmerle
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To: tiki

Um, Revelation 2-3?


124 posted on 10/15/2007 3:40:49 PM PDT by irishtenor (How much good could a Hindu do, if a Hindu could do good?)
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