holy spirit catholic church

the ressurection of the body and life everlasting. Who wrote this? which apostles, does anyone know? the communion of saints is that cloud of witnessess, or is a witness unable to see, if so why is he called a witness as if alive and watching us? I beleive the bible, how bout you? we can pray to anyone in heaven because of our communion of saints.

It is from the Nicene Creed, which was formulated at the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in 325 AD.

And you are right about the witnesses bit. Hebrews 12:1 makes that pretty clear. So do numerous other verses, but that one in particular is nice.

2008-01-28 19:10:32 by raphael

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what is the rule of the holy spirit why the church is apostolic?

Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the apostles. All over the world, all Catholic bishops are part of a lineage that goes back to the time of the apostles, something that is impossible in Protestant denominations (most of which do not even claim to have bishops).

The role of apostolic succession in preserving true doctrine is illustrated in the Bible. To make sure that the apostles’ teachings would be passed down after the deaths of the apostles, Paul told Timothy, "[W]hat you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Tim. 2:2). In this passage he refers to the first three generations of apostolic succession—his own generation, Timothy’s generation, and the generation Timothy will teach.

The Church Fathers, who were links in that chain of succession, regularly appealed to apostolic succession as a test for whether Catholics or heretics had correct doctrine. This was necessary because heretics simply put their own interpretations, even bizarre ones, on Scripture. Clearly, something other than Scripture had to be used as an ultimate test of doctrine in these cases.

2009-01-30 19:20:47 by Leah C

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The Catholic Church charges about 100 bucks to baptise someone by water, so I wonder how much do they charge for the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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2008-09-16 14:53:31 by SKDX4Gses

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If the early Church believed in sola Scriptura, why do the creeds of the early Church always say “we believe in the Holy Catholic Church,” and not “we believe in Holy Scripture”?

For example, the Apostle's Creed, dating within 50 years of the New Testament and ascribed to the original Apostles, said:
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
http://www.reformed.org/documents/index. html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/d ocuments/apostles_creed.html
For the several people who pointed out that "catholic" means universal, I understand that. My question is why they believed in the Church, rather than in the written scriptures? Of the several statements about what the Apostles believed, not one mention of scripture. Doesn't exactly support the a Bible-only view, wouldn't you say?
Greengo, if the Creed was formulated about 150 AD, that would have been during the papacy of Pius I; there were nine previous popes.

# St. Peter (32-67)
# St. Linus (67-76)
# St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
# St. Clement I (88-97)
# St. Evaristus (97-105)
# St. Alexander I (105-115)
# St. Sixtus I (115-125) -- also called Xystus I
# St. Telesphorus (125-136)
# St. Hyginus (136-140)
# St. Pius I (140-155)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.h tm

What do the bible-only Christians do with the years between 33 AD and 50 AD? This is the period of time from Jesus' death to the appearance of the first written word of scripture, the book of Thessalonians, I believe. See that little 17 year gap? There was no NT during that time. How, then, do they explain the flourishing and teaching of the Faith (underground I might add), when they didn't have any NT scripture to teach it from?

2007-11-30 11:26:07 by Bruce

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2007-08-05 13:40:06 by nicianhijacker