Floatingaxe
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Does any realize it was the Catholic Church in 382 that set out to translate from Latin the books now used in the New Testament into the Vulgate?
That it is the Catholic Church that chose the 27 books of the New Testament from more than 200 books?
That yes the Catholic Church is the Universal church spoken of as early as 100 AD and it is the same Church that has been led by the Spirit of Truth since Jesus left the Spirit to Protect and Remember the Truth?
All these remarks about "oh Ihave the Holy Spirit and it talks to me and told me women can be priests" is just ludicrous. The Spirit of Truth came after Jesus to protect his church and YES it is only ONE church.
Not ludicrous. You have been indoctrinated with some major falsehood. I watched your little profile video--yeah--falsehood.
By the way, the Holy Spirit is a person. Kindly refer to Him not as "it". Thank you.
The Word of God calls us all priests. He doesn't say in 1 Peter 2:9---
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;...oh, except for women...you aren't as special.
As stated previously the Catholic Church does indeed trace it's roots through Apostlic Succession to the Apostles and thus to Christ himself.
So they say. Bully for them...it wasn't required, for God doesn't work through that arrangement in any way. Just another example of works and religiosity.
If you find yourself in a church today that is other than the Catholic Church or the Eastern Church then you have no valid Orders and do not have the Spirit of Truth guiding and Protecting your church.
You know nothing about how the Holy Spirit moves, then. He lives in each Christian from the very moment of salvation. Each Christian is a member of the Body of Christ--thereby coming directly and intimately under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit! Amen, Jesus!
ANY church that is other than these two churches DID NOT EXIST until the 16th century or later is not God made but man made. That is why there are so many denominations because they are not of God's church they are from someone else. They have valid Baptisms but what else???
God's church? What about the global family of God--Christians? That is the Church of God. That is the Church, the Bride. It exists beyond doctrine, brick and stained glass, nuns and priests and altars and anything you want to throw as a stumbling block before those He wants to save.
All I have said is proven through history and is not some ones fanciful fantasy of some spirit telling them the Truth. Jesus gave us the Truth when he was here and the Apostles taught it and the Spirit of Truth has protected it. Anything else is not from God since God gave us his teachings before he left.
Scriptural and historical and fact. Beat that...
The New Testament Church is alive and well and living beyond your closed up doctrinal world. You can't put God in a box.
Jesus died and burst open His tomb alive to FREE us from that dusty musty thinking! Hallelujah!
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