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To: ADSUM

Your error is you claim the apostles as members of your Roman sect when they would be surprised to know that. The apostles and early Christians worshipped Christ in Spirit and in Truth just as His followers do today. They had nothing to do with the sect founded by Constantine 300 years later. Whether you acknowledge it or not.


89 posted on 05/12/2018 6:52:00 AM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Mom MD

Just like a liberal to rewrite history. Fake news.


109 posted on 05/12/2018 10:05:30 AM PDT by ADSUM
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To: Mom MD

Do you just make up fake news? YOUR COMMENT: “They had nothing to do with the sect founded by Constantine 300 years later. Whether you acknowledge it or not.” Your assertion does not agree with historical facts.

Very early in post-apostolic times, however. the Church did acquire a proper name—and precisely in order to distinguish herself from rival bodies which by then were already beginning to form. The name that the Church acquired when it became necessary for her to have a proper name was the name by which she has been known ever since-the Catholic Church.

Around the year A.D. 107, a bishop, St. Ignatius of Antioch in the Near East, was arrested, brought to Rome by armed guards and eventually martyred there in the arena. In a farewell letter which this early bishop and martyr wrote to his fellow Christians in Smyrna (today Izmir in modern Turkey), he made the first written mention in history of “the Catholic Church.” He wrote, “Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church” (To the Smyrnaeans 8:2). Thus, the second century of Christianity had scarcely begun when the name of the Catholic Church was already in use.

https://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/churb3.htm

I do hope as an educated Mom, that you seek the full Truth from Jesus that is protected by the Holy Spirit in the Catholic Church.


160 posted on 05/13/2018 6:45:28 AM PDT by ADSUM
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