Why do Roman Catholics...

[Rick Otto]

The Church is the Body of Christ. The Church is in Christ and Christ is in the Church.The Church is Christ and Christ is the Church.Talking about Christ is talking about the Church and talking about the Church is talking about Christ.Christ is my brother and I am God's child. I am in the family of God. I am in the Church. The Church is the Kingdom of Heaven. If I speak of the Kingdom of Heaven then I speak of the Church.The Church is the assembly of Christians. Christians are made in the image of God. Christians are reborn in His likeness. We are reborn into Christ. All Christians are the Church.WoW!How can one seperate Christ from the Church or the Church from Christ?
Wouldn't that be like seperating the Head from the Body?

Simple redefinition using terms & titles that exploit ambiguities along with ipso facto practices accomplish that seperation.

 

[sunlover1]

The Church is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Hi Jack.
Nice post
Just this one statement I wanted to comment on.
The church (body of Christ) is not the Kingdom of Heaven.
(Obviously don't take MY word for it, but if you try to exchange the word
"church" for each time Jesus used "Kingdom of Heaven" you will easily
see that they are two different things.)

God bless you.
Keep studying to show yourself approved!

 

[lionroar0]

Doesn't seem so subtle from here.
People who measure put together a ruler, and measure themselves & everything else with it.
Same for God's truth.
God given truths & rulers in men's hands give varying results as men are varied.
Focusing on Christ is safer than all the rest, and all the rest is measured by Him.

The Bible was meant as a measure not the onlymeasure though. If it were the only measure then there would haven been no need for councils after the bible was put together.

Focusing on Christ is safer than all the rest, and all the rest is measured by Him.

Everything given by Him was not all written down though.

If something is going to be measured by us men then, we need to use everything that Jesus gave us.

 

[lionroar0]

Simple redefinition using terms & titles that exploit ambiguities along with ipso facto practices accomplish that seperation.

The OP did the dividing.

Why do Roman Catholics... Talk about their church all the time?

Evangelicals talk about Christ all the time. Quite a difference.

He's answering question.

 

[lionroar0]

Like when to celebrate Easter?
Like where Jesus made Peter a pope?

Tradition and Scripture have to meet faith at some point.

Sadly not everyone agrees on that point.

 

[blessedmomof5]

So missed page 18 and 19 "smacksSelf in head"
ugh iPhones so hard to post

 

[Rick Otto]

Great posts, lionroar.
I completely agree except I think God decided when He dicided to get scripture written, to put all the essentials in it. There's quite a lot there, after all.