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"Catholic" in the Nicene Creed has a small c. It just means world-wide, universal. It doesn't refer only the the Roman Catholic denomination.
The catholic (small c) church just means the world-wide, universal church, the church that Jesus said He would build and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. That is the church mentioned in the creeds. The creeds don't say, "I believe in the Roman Catholic Church."
Believe it or not, Jesus only used the word “church” twice. On the first occasion, Jesus speaks prophetically to his disciple Peter in Matthew 16:18.
Yes, I agree. Not sure how it answers my post though.
The authors of the Creed are Trinitarian. The term came to be published or hand written in a letter in the second century, then "Triad".
That's similar, though on a larger scale, to a church's doctrinal checkpoints for members, and their "Statement of Faith."
"Taken" by God's wrath,
Yes, they were killed and Noah and his family were left on the earth.
I see it as Noah and his family were taken to safety by being on the ark and those left behind outside of the ark were all killed. Similarly, when Jesus comes again, we (the church) will all be taken up to meet Him in the air and those left behind and not taken up will all be killed. Either way you look at it, the text indicates that all unbelievers will be killed when Jesus returns just as all unbelievers were killed by the flood in Noah's day.
