Persevero:
Fair enough if that is what you believe. I don’t as your model of Christianity and the Church distorts who God is. God is One and thus is a perfect communion of Love so the Church as Christ Body takes on the reality of who God is.
For me as a Catholic, and I think Eastern Orthodox would agree, Protestant eccesiology is lacking big-time.
“For me as a Catholic, and I think Eastern Orthodox would agree, Protestant eccesiology is lacking big-time.”
I think some Protestant ecclesiology is. For instance, the local guy who decides he’s a prophet, rents a storefront, and starts to “prophesy.” That’s a load of hokum, totally unBiblical.
But the good Bible-believing churches have solid confessions, accountability, standards for ordination, and church discipline are very sound in my opinion. What did Jesus say? You judge them by their fruits.
I think you will admit the discipline in the RC church is sorely lacking with the Ted Kennedys and Nancy Pelosis of this world getting served the mass, etc. They would not get communion at my church! Also witness the coverup of the child molesters. Please do NOT assume I paint all RCs with the same brush, not at all, I know the vast majority of RCs are not represented by these horror shows; these are just public instances of bad accountability and discipline.
It happens in Protestant churches, too, witness Ted Haggard, good grief, but in his case he was removed from the pulpit and so forth. To his church’s credit.
So I see ecclesiological shortcomings in both RC and some Protestant denominations.