“They are members of the church founded by Jesus Christ.”
It is a different church that teaches different things and has lost the Gospel of Grace a thousand years ago.
Today, it is the world’s largest gay religious organization.
Also, the largest religious sexual abuser of children.
And liberal.
Definitely not the church Christ founded.
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“Christ” did not found any church, nor do the scriptures say he did.
He already had his Kehillah, (remnant) the expansion of which he he was explaining.
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