To: Elsie
“I think it SHOWS how screwed up you CATHOLICS had it already!”
And not a Protestant in sight for more than 1400 years. Thanks for admitting that the Catholic Church - my Church (”you CATHOLICS”) - was the original Church.
569 posted on 11/17/2014, 8:42:35 AM by vladimir998
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There was no earthly universal "catholic" "Church" (as a proper noun used today) at the beginning of the Age of Grace. There were only autonomous local immersionist churches, all loyal to Jesus and His Gospel, but led only by local spiritual men serving the office of elders, whose next and only intermediate with The Father was The Risen Anointed Jesus, who obediently offered His Shed Blood at the Heavenly Mercy Seat as the paid price for all sin and sins, thus purchasing reconciliation of humans to The God and Father of Jesus.
This idea of forming an extra-biblical supra-local administrative power over local churches that went along with it, to form a denomination that excluded protesters who rejected such an unscriptural accumulation of political power, came much later. And it has never conquered the remnant of true regenerated spirit-led followers of Jesus in any age since. So please stop insisting that Jesus founded the Roman Catholic Church or any other catholic curch, or even any other supra-local denomination, please? It is repugnant to those constituents of independent local autonomous Christ-ordained immersionist assemblies whose authority is vested in strong Biblical preaching, teaching of disciples by spiritually mature men, and firm church discipline agreed on by the local congregants.