[metmom]

I learn my faith from the Holy Church, as Christ and his Holy Apostles tells me.

Acts 20:28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Where is the Catholic church mentioned in that passage?

He was speaking to the elders at Ephesus here. (v 17)

Perhaps you should take your own advice.

There appears to be a significant difference in what Catholics refer to as *the faith* and *faith*.

*The Faith* is often used as to be interchangeable with Roman Catholicism.

Biblical faith is * the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen* (Heb 11:1)

And so, while you have to be taught Catholicism, the rest of the world comes to faith by hearing the Word of Christ.

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

[annalex]

*The Faith* is often used as to be interchangeable with Roman Catholicism.

Not necessarily Roman, Catholicism as a whole, including the Eastern Orthodox. We can of course speak of Protestant faith, but it is a crippled remnant of the True Catholic Faith.

[Natural Law]

"Where is the Catholic church mentioned in that passage?"

Where is the Trinity, the Virgin Birth, and the Resurrection in that verse? One cannot look at a single passage and extract a comprehensive doctrine from it. One has to look at the Bible as a whole.

That said, we are not going to solve or shout each other down on whether the reference to "church" means the one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church established in Matthew 16 and affirmed by the Early Church Fathers at Nicene or any Sunday lay about who claims to be Christian because they can recite a few verses of Scripture.

Peace be with you.

[Natural Law]

"Where is the Catholic church mentioned in that passage?"

Where is the Trinity, the Virgin Birth, and the Resurrection in that verse? One cannot look at a single passage and extract a comprehensive doctrine from it. One has to look at the Bible as a whole.

That said, we are not going to solve or shout each other down on whether the reference to "church" means the one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church established in Matthew 16 and affirmed by the Early Church Fathers at Nicene or any Sunday lay about who claims to be Christian because they can recite a few verses of Scripture.

Peace be with you.