Nope - look up catholic, it's universalShe certainly does---the one historic Catholic Church.
Nope - look up catholic, it's universalShe certainly does---the one historic Catholic Church.
Jesus is the cornerstone, period !She certainly does---the one historic Catholic Church.
We say catholic in our confessions in every service and yet the rominists wants to strip it from us cause they think they own the copyright. Goofy denomination from Rome !Nope - look up catholic, it's universal
Here HS mindlessly parrots the anti-Catholic opinions of his particular recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sect. Noted, and dismissed. :yawn:
Yes, and the universal Church founded by Jesus Christ himself has been commonly known as "the Catholic Church" since the end of the 1st century.Nope - look up catholic, it's universal
Not in Mt. 16:18, in which Jesus describes himself a the Builder, and Peter as "the Rock."Jesus is the cornerstone, period !
Then years later, the catholic religion became corrupt and evilNot in Mt. 16:18, in which Jesus describes himself a the Builder, and Peter as "the Rock."
When, exactly? Many people say that the Nicene council was when it went bad, but that still makes the Lord out to be a lying false prophet, because He said, "The gates of the netherworld will not prevail against [her]." If she went bad at Nicaea then those gates prevailed, and in order to take the Lord's prophecy as Gospel, we have to imagine that at the point, or at some other point, the Church went underground and became invisible. That's of course possible, but there's no hint that that would happen in Scripture, not a whiff of that. The Lord didn't allow for that in Matthew 16:18, not a whiff.Then years later, the catholic religion became corrupt and evil
Only the Catholic Church is able to trace its presence in history all the way back to the apostles and Jesus Christ….
What was the movement that caused them to “originate” in 1830? Hint, it wasn’t the reform movement.Thank you for your honesty. You asked me how I know that your particular sect is "man-made," and it's simply this. The Church of Christ's own website traces its origin back only to 1830.
Proof, please.Then years later, the catholic religion became corrupt and evil
The foundationNot in Mt. 16:18, in which Jesus describes himself a the Builder, and Peter as "the Rock."
Here are my problems with this. Nowhere are we told baptism is a sign, including the verse you referenced. God does tell us circumcision is a sign for the old covenant in both the NT and OT.In brief, Catholics baptize infants for the very same reason that infants were circumcised as the sign of the Old Covenant, namely, because baptism is the sign of the New Covenant (Col. 2:11-12).
In both cases,
St. Paul directly equates circumcision and baptism, and given that circumcision---as you admit---was the sign of the Old Covenant, it follows from their equation by Paul that baptism is likewise the sign of the New Covenant. This is confirmed by the early Church as well, which unambiguously believed and taught that baptism is indeed the sign of the New Covenant.Here are my problems with this. Nowhere are we told baptism is a sign, including the verse you referenced.
The RCC and friends will persecute other believers until they get run over by Russia and China. Trumpets ch 5 and 6.
the early Church as well, which unambiguously believed and taught .
it follows from their equation
He has, just not explicitly in the Bible.This is not how I determine truth. I trust what it says. If baptism is a sign the Holy Spirit would have said so.
QUESTION: As a professing Christian, do you affirm the doctrine of the Trinity, yes or no?
So again:I believe God is one and three, we call it the Godhead. I don’t fully understand it like I don’t fully understand how God has no beginning and no end. My mind can only comprehend so much.
It’s evident from scripture that God is plural.
Gen. 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;
We also see the Son being referred to as God.
Isa. 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it,
Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3All things came into being through Him,
We see being baptized in the name of Jesus is as good as being baptized in the name of the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit.
Acts 10:48 And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, There are more but you get the picture