[ebb tide]

The difference is that now the rot is from within.

Like Judas, the Arians, the Donatists, Martin Luter, Henry VIII and Bergolio they all were once "within" God's Church.

The Church still stands however.

[metmom]

The body of Christ is made up individually of individual believers.

It is not an organization with the name of *church* after it.

Take away the people and there is no church.

And there's no such thing as a church if there are no people to make it up.