[one Lord one faith one baptism]

so the standard for whether a doctrine is true or not is whether it is taught in the book of Acts?
really? if that were true, goodbye deity of Christ, the Trinity, the Virgin birth, justification by grace, etc etc.
oh, also you won’t find anywhere in the book of Acts the doctrine that if a doctrine isn’t contained in the book of Acts it must be false.

btw, the Church is not the vine, Jesus Christ is the vine...the Church is the branches.

[pastorbillrandles]

I didn’t say any of that.All I observed was the marked contrast between the simple, heavily tested faith of the early church, and the gold and scarlet encrusted, man centered hierarchy of the Roman Church. Just an observation. Yes Jesus is the true vine, and we (the church) are the branches.