[Petronski]

However, it wasn't YOUR Church that Jesus established...

Not his Church, but certainly His Church. Christ established the Catholic Church. It is neither mine nor yours nor vlad's.

It is Christ's.

[boatbums]

Christ established the Catholic Church.

Can you point to a Scripture passage that says "catholic"? My understanding is that the Christian church in Rome didn't get designated as "the only true church" until centuries after the resurrection and only then by the council themselves.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Not his Church, but certainly His Church. Christ established the Catholic Church. It is neither mine nor yours nor vlad’s.

It is Christ's. ****

Now wait a minute. It depends on which side of the fence you are looking from.

About 35 years ago I read an interesting newspaper interview with a Greek Orthodox priest.

He said that Christian Church was one organization in agreement until about 1000 years ago the Catholics broke away from the TRUE CHURCH! His words, not mine!

That would make the Catholics the first Protestants!

And I remember a thread on FR many years ago about how Martin Luther tried to establish contact with the Patriarch of Constantinople after his break from Rome.

Now there are hundreds of BIG WALLS separating Christians, all screaming WE ARE THE TRUE CHURCH THAT CHRIST ESTABLISHED! while others see only little fences and minor things separating us.