If we don't need it, why did He institute it???? Kind of like the Eucharist....did He just waste time giving us that magnificent gift???
Need it??? We ARE it! Do you not comprehend that point?
Kind of like the Eucharist....did He just waste time giving us that magnificent gift???
The "magnificent gift" is eternal life through faith in what Jesus Christ did and IS. That is what the "eucharist" was supposed to remind us of every time we observed it. Don't you read Scripture?
He DIDN'T institute the Catholic church. That's what they CLAIM but their claiming it doesn't make it so. That's just what you have been taught all your life and likely, just like the rest of us cradle Catholics until God opened our eyes, blindly accepted it in unquestioning obedience to the Catholic church.
There are other groups who claim to be the one true church as well, the best known is the Mormons.
Jesus said He would BUILD His church. He didn't say *I am establishing a church*. The body of Christ is comprised of individual believers through out time and space irregardless of denominational affiliation.
The gift He gave us is the Holy Spirit, not some religious organization that burdens men down with more hoops to jump through to get to heaven than the Jews made up. He came to set us FREE, not to put us into another form of bondage.
So tell us, since other organizations call themselves the one true church as well, how is someone to know which one really is?
Christ said He would build HIS church ..not Rome Catholicism.. that is mans doing.. Christs church consists of all the saved with Him as the head.. He is the Rock