Replies

Actually, I was specifically responding to caww's claim that "the Church is all those who are believers". Jesus founded a visible Church which would endure until the end of time to teach authoritatively in his name. It was a visible Church in Jerusalem on the first Pentecost; it's the same Church today. Scripture calls the Church the Body of Christ; Christ does not have an invisible, vague, or amorphous body.

Naw...A synagogue is visible...The church is spiritual...A Catholic church or a Baptist is not the church...It's a misnomer...The building is not the church...The building is where the church meets...And not all who go into the building are the church...

You religion has developed a bit of a problem...You guys claim that whoever is baptized a Catholic in a Catholic church by a Catholic priest becomes a Christian, a member of the Body of Christ...

But yet many of you guys cast your doubts upon some Catholics who have been baptized into your religion as to whether they are real Christians, or Catholics for that matter...

I'm thinkin some of you realize that not everyone who gets a Catholic baptism has become a Christian...

Only God knows who in one of your churches or any church is a real Christian...The phoneys are invisible to us...As well as the real Christians...

You have a visible organization but that is not the Body of Jesus Christ...There are no non Christians in the Body of Jesus Christ...

Church buildings are visible...The Vatican is very visible...The body of Christ is not visible...

You don't know if I am an actual Christian...And I don't know if you are an actual Christian...Only God knows...If I walked into your church, I couldn't possibly pick out the Christians...They are invisible...