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With all due respect, the Bible says that the Church must be one and the original one founded by Jesus and the apostles is the Catholic Church. Why do you disagree that we are to be united as Jesus and the Father are one?

John 10:16 - there shall be one fold and one shepherd
John 17:17-23 - I pray that they may be one, as we are one
John 17:23 - that they may be brought to perfection as one
Romans 12:5 - we, though many, are one body in Christ
Romans 15:5 - God grant you to think in harmony with one another
Romans 16:17 - avoid those who create dissensions
1 Corinthians 1:10 - I urge you that there be no divisions among you
1 Corinthians 12:13 - in one spirit we were baptized into one body
Ephesians 4:4-6 -There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, over all, through all and within all.
Philippians 2:2 - be of same mind, united in heart, thinking one thing
Colossians 3:15 - the peace into which you were called in one body

St. Cyprian (c. 250AD) - "God is one and Christ in one, and one is His Church, and the faith is one, and His people welded together by the glue of concord into a solid unity of body. Unity cannot be rent asunder, nor can the one body of the Church, through the division of its structure, be divided into separate pieces." (On the Unity of the Church, 23)

Tertullian (c. 197AD) - "We are a society with a single religious feeling, a single unity of discipline, a single bond of hope," (Apology 39, 1)

St. Hilary (c. 4th century) - "In the Scriptures our people are shown to be made one, so that just as many grains collected into one and ground and mingled together, make one loaf, so in Christ, who is the heavenly bread, we know there is one holy, in which our whole company is joined and united" (Treatise 62, 13)
WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADDRESS THE QUESTION WITH AN ANSWER THAT JUSTIFIES YOUR DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WILL TO BE ONE IN HIS CHURCH? IF YOU CANNOT JUSTIFY IT JUST BE HONEST AND SAY SO.
ADDITIONAL iNFORMATION: THE ENTIRE NEW TESTAMENT IS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS THERE WAS NO OTHER UNTIL THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. SO, IF YOU READ THE nEW TESTAMENT, YOU ARE READING ABOUT THE CHURCH FOUNDED BY CHRIST. IF YOU THINK THER IS ANOTHER GIVE SOME PROOF. I AM HARD TO DECEIVE SINCE I WAS A PROTESTANT TRAINED PROFESSOR OF EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY WITH A MDIV FROM A BAPTIST SEMINARY AND A PHD FROM A METHODIST ONE. 25 YEARS AS A PROTESTANT MINISTER (MORAVIAN) BEFORE CONVERTING TO CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY.
BibleChooser: Since you are so confused about what is the Church I thought you can learn from this writing in my blog that describes the Church:

http://fiatvolvntastua.blogspot.com/2009 /06/church-is-both-visible-and-invisible .html

Pretty sad, isn't it? C.S. Lewis used an illustration that I've always liked, and it goes something as follows: "The real dog never says to the toy dog, 'I'm just as good as you.'"

That's why fundamentalists have to lash out at Christ's true Church on earth, while Catholics seldom feel the need to attack their separated brothers and sisters in Christ. We know that the Catholic Faith is what Jesus intended His Church to be, and no amount of bashing or arguing by fundamentalists will ever change that.

Pray for them. God was gracious enough to lead me out of a "toy church" into the True Faith, and He can do it for others.

Edit:

((((Tallulah))))

2009-07-09 16:31:21 by cristoiglesia

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