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To: boatbums
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.

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?

You aren't. You are only in agreement about antiCatholicism. And in the chicken bones or dice for formulating theology.

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.

As long as they are not truly of the Church of Christ, but in some knockoff facsimile that only remotely resembles the Church that Christ Created and the Holy Spirit commissioned at Pentecost.

1,874 posted on 11/13/2011 5:23:29 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
As long as they are not truly of the Church of Christ, but in some knockoff facsimile that only remotely resembles the Church that Christ Created and the Holy Spirit commissioned at Pentecost.

Well, let me repeat: 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.

This "knockoff facsimile that only remotely resembles the Church that Christ created and the Holy Spirit commissioned at Pentecost" could very well define the Roman Catholic Church as this knock-off. Whereas the spiritual body of Christ, the called-out assembly created at Pentecost, more closely defines those assemblies that adhere to the same doctrines taught in Holy Scripture - those letters that God inspired in the writers of the New Testament to ensure the truths Christ taught them both before AND after he was seated in Heaven are and forever will be our authority. What today calls itself THE Church, has been shown to no longer represent that universal spiritual whole BUT God has always kept a "remnant" for himself that have not bowed the knee to false gods. This is what has always set apart those who faithfully follow the true path of righteousness found in Jesus Christ.

1,964 posted on 11/13/2011 4:32:05 PM PST by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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