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To: Jvette
< His church, the bride of Christ, absolutely. That is not however exclusive to the RCC. I’m sure there are those who are part of His church that attend the RCC as there are who attend many churches or no church at all but the RCC is not His church.
2,580 posted on 12/04/2011 2:46:03 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

****RCC is not His church.****

Truly this is nothing more than the opinion of an admittedly fallible person who cannot show where the Catholic Church is disconnected from the one which came out of the catacombs.

There is no time at which one can point and say, this is where the NT church ended and the (Roman)Catholic Church began unless one completely ignores history and the witness of the first few generations of Christians following the Apostles.

There seems to be two camps of protestantism, the first, who adhere to the pretense that Constantine created the Catholic Church and the second, who adhere to the pretense that Christ established no visible church with an organizational hierarchy and unified doctrine of beliefs and practices.

Both are equally wrong and have been injurious to the true body of Christ.

There is clear organization in the NT, clear adherence to a unified doctrine as proclaimed and preached by the Apostles and leaders of the Church, and clear community worship and breaking of the Bread.

And no where in the first two or three or four or five centuries all the way to the present is there an end of that organization, that doctrine or that community worship.

One Bread, One Body, One Faith, One Lord of all. One Church.


2,598 posted on 12/04/2011 3:42:31 PM PST by Jvette
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