You are entitled to believe whatever you want.
1. Jesus Christ established a Church (not several, or several thousand).
2. The only Church which can trace its lineage unbroken to the time of Christ and the apostles is the Catholic Church.
3. And therefore, Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church as ONE HOLY CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC.
Why am I a Catholic? Because I wish to belong to the Church which Christ himself established, the Church of which he said, “the powers of death shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18).
Very good post, that is also one of the main reasons I’m Catholic.
Questionable claim.
So much of Roman Catholicism is not attested to in Scripture as has been evidenced on these threads.
Why am I a Catholic? Because I wish to belong to the Church which Christ himself established, the Church of which he said, “the powers of death shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18).
A nice sentiment....but never the question Jesus put to the disciples.
18And it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the people say that I am?” 19They answered and said, “John the Baptist, and others say Elijah; but others, that one of the prophets of old has risen again.”
20And He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.” Luke 9:18-20 NASB
We are called to be followers of Christ, and only Christ.
1: Yeah, sure, but you can’t prove that the modern-day organization calling itself Roman Catholic is that Church, especially when its teachings contradict the Word of God so blatantly.
2: Wrong: Eastern Orthodox does it better, and there’s no concept of ‘apostolic succession’ in Scripture anyways.
3: Jesus said in Revelation that he would remove the lampstand of faithless churches. Considering the horribly evil men that you currently have in office AND the fact that none of your other leadership are even trying to remove them, AND the fact that your leadership deliberately victimized children by covering up and protecting predator priests, I’ll bet that the Romanists have lost their lampstand pretty decisively.
That’s the reason I’m NOT Catholic. I’m not going to entrust my soul to an organization that is so blatantly against the Word of God and won’t even remove blatant sinners from among them until forced to.
*Holy?*
And the gates of hell will not prvail?
Not so much when the Vatican hosts cocaine fueled gay sex orgies.
The gates of hell have more than prevailed against Catholicism.