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To: bronxville
Jesus adds those who are saved to His Church.
We don't become part of a Church and then saved, we are saved then added to His church.

So then if he only adds those who are saved to his church, one could reason that only those who belong to His (the) Church are save.

There is only One Church and it aint Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Methodist, Mormon, Peter's, Paul, Apostles.
It's Jesus’ Church.

1,523 posted on 07/02/2009 12:40:31 PM PDT by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: NoDRodee
Jesus adds those who are saved to His Church.

Could you answer how what you have stated in your post is different than what the Catholic Church itself teaches? If you read the posted article we are discussing here, and also key parts of Vatican II, the Catholic Church is saying essentially what you have said here. There is ONE Church, not many denominations, and where Truth is represented in any of Christian activity in the world, that is the Church. The Catholic Church would simply add that, by Apostolic succession, the See of Peter has authority and protection for theological error and when Christians separate themselves from these doctrines they risk falling into heresy and moral error which MIGHT eventually result in eternal damnation or perhaps unnecessary temporal punishment (natural consequences that result from moral error).
1,529 posted on 07/02/2009 1:27:18 PM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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