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To: Elsie

Oh, the Catholic Church had way more than 7 local parishes when John wrote Revelation.
What you didn’t find back then was a Baptist Church, Presbyterian, Methodist, Mormon, seventh day adventist, etc.
That confusion was over 1,400 years away.


86 posted on 07/15/2015 8:22:09 PM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
Oh, the Catholic Church had way more than 7 local parishes when John wrote Revelation. What you didn’t find back then was a Baptist Church . . .

There was no Catholic Church, and no catholicity of churches. There were local churches planted all across the known world at Paul's time, each of which was independent, autonomous, baptizing by immersion, goverened by elders, and doing what Baptists and Brethren do today. Catholicity was a concept later introduced by marrying the Platonic concept of oversoul with extrabiblical church polity by Gentile philosophers who grasped the reins of power by unifying with the Roman government as its religion, and overcoming Scriptural Christianity.

93 posted on 07/15/2015 11:24:34 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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Oh, the Catholic Church had way more than 7 local parishes when John wrote Revelation.

Good way to AVOID discussing the ERROR in those 7 CATHOLIC churches!

99 posted on 07/16/2015 5:25:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Oh, the Catholic Church had way more than 7 local parishes when John wrote Revelation.

Apparently Rome wasn't one of them.

112 posted on 07/16/2015 8:40:20 AM PDT by dartuser
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