Putting any ruin of the Reformation in place of the true Church of Christ is absolutely in error. The handing down of the Faith goes back to what Jesus taught the Apostles. It does not include those who create their own faith by gazing at the content of their navels.
Yes it does. To bad the RCC screwed up so bad by going back under the law.
>>It does not include those who create their own faith by gazing at the content of their navels.<<
I don’t suppose it does. You must have met people who “gaze into their navels”. I haven’t nor have I accused anyone of doing that. That’s a nice tactic from those who run out of support for their faith but it sure looks immature to me.
YAWN. Yea, we know, we heard it before, in our navels, between our toes, in our cornflakes, in the mirror, yada, yada, yada. Funny thing though, if such a thing actually happens, why is it that most of us on this "side" are in agreement about the major tenets of the Christian faith? I do not know ANY of the people I pinged in this post, have no idea what church they attend or if they attend a formal church, but I believe what they believe about Jesus, the Bible, salvation by grace through faith, eternal life is a gift of God. Though we may differ on nonessentials, we hold to what Scripture teaches and we have no problem with unity in the major things. We DO believe in the faith taught by Jesus and what God further revealed to the Apostles and disciples and what they, in turn, wrote down for us so that we can know what their faith was and we can follow it, too.
This "true Church of Christ", I'm happy to say, consists of all those who hold to the same faith of those early believers. We are all part of that universal body of Jesus Christ, no time like the present to get used to the idea.