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I don't think God meant for the true church to be the monstrosity that the Church at Rome has become....that's why we have scripture, to provide a check when we begin to go astray...that's why we had a reformation, so that the truth of what Christ was offering to the world should not be buried behind man-made doctrines and cantations of meaningless mumbo-jumbo. Christ came to destroy the power of sin to put the power of the Spirit within us, any man-made organization that tries to "contain it or organize it" beyond the scope of what the word of God teaches will be swept aside!

Nice post, but I don't believe Christ meant for us to be less than "that all may be One."

The Catholic Church is indeed large... it has 2,000 years of history behind it. Do you think it is a mark of Truth that there are more than 20,000 different denominations of Protestantism? All with very different beliefs? And I know that people say doctrine isn't important (not the Catholics) but where does the Bible teach that? In fact, St. Paul wrote many letters correcting the errors of believers... so he must have thought "being of One mind" was important as well. You can see my post #50 for biblical quotes supporting this.