I said Christian theology, not the Christian Scriptures. The concept of the ecclesia in the Latin church is the same as ἐκκλησία in the Greek church.
Um, the point is that the concept of what many people think today as “church” was not a concept that was used in the time of the apostles. I don’t care “how old it is”. What the apostles taught is what is to be believed. Nothing else.
No, the point is that the word church is only what English speakers use to render ἐκκλησία/ecclesia which is found in the New Testament. Its etymological derivation is meaningless since the Christian understanding of ἐκκλησία/ecclesia/church predates the English language.
No, it was a perversion of scripture by the RCC. Ecclesia NEVER meant “church” as the RCC portrays it nor how many people today understand it.