Prooving catholic as the true church

Lord'sWarrior said:

If you were to prove me the catholic church is the one true church, how would you do that to me?

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I would take you to the Eucharist .

Call your priest. Get catechized. Decide from there. Sounds like you do not know the faith you were baptized in. Your profile says non-denom.

Lord'sWarrior said:

I'm baptized Catholic, I go to confession and usually go to Mass, but I'm still not sure in this faith.

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I'm leaving to take my kids to camp soon. So I may not respond back and forth.

But first you have to think would Christ have left his church with no guidance. Of course there's the Holy Spirit. But would He have left deciding the Canon of scripture, how to implement scripture, and what it means to each person's own decision?

Would the Apostles have even then left the Church without a continual frame of leadership coming from Christ.

So you basically have to think on: Would our Lord have left His teaching to be interpreted by each person however they chose? Look at what happens when you have that.

Or would He have left the continual chain of authority to keep His teachings sound.

Now this is before we get to is there Holy Tradition in addition to Scripture. Set that aside for a moment.

If your answer is yes but it makes sense that the Lord would provide that structure, or have to divinely and unequivocally re-establish it...what groups are the candidates for being that entrusted authority?

Hey. So, these verses of Scripture also help me when I'm bumbling;

Matthew 16:18

Ephesians 2:19-22

So, we can see here that Christ founded His Church on Saint Peter. And that the house of God, the Church, began with Christ, then the Apostles, on down. There was a continuation. Authority.

And Saints. The Saints were and are like little books through which and in whom what the Church is, gives, and teaches can be "read".

The preponderance of evidence

Look at how the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles are written in a way that shows the Church is an institution (or atleast has an institutional character)

What institutions can be traced back the the Apostles
The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic

So lack of history and theological innovations pretty much mean that Protestant denominations can not be the Church

I would argue that the Eastern Orthodox have gone against the teachings of the Church by rejecting the authority of Rome which many preschism Easterners attested to

Add in the fact that Christ also told the disciples that He would send the Holy Spirit (the third member of the God Head) to dwell among and in them, and to guide and to comfort and strengthen them, and to remind them of Jesus Himself.

He then sent them out 2 x 2 to teach others, He confirmed that He had come specifically from the Father, and that He (Jesus) was baptized by John (his cousin) specifically with the mission to bring the Word of God back to the Jews first.

He was the Messiah, whose coming was long prophesied, and whose task it was to eliminate thru the sacrifice of His life the gap that was ever-widening between God and His chosen people, the Jews.

But when Jesus and His sacrifice was rejected by the Jews, then He turned to the gentiles in order that God's gift of reconciliation and salvation might freely restore as many people as would come back to God.

Jesus did found the Church. And even as God personally taught the Jewish people through the example and words of Moses so that they would know Him, Jesus in the same way taught the gentiles who would come to Him of God, and how to worship Him.
When Jesus left this Earth at Pentecost, the Earthly church was already in existence, and has continued through this day.

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