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Bread From Heaven FeedI thought the Catholic Church was started in the 4th or 5th century?
No Jesus started the Catholic Church in Mt. 16 when He said to Simon, “You are rock and on this rock I will build my Church”
And it was called the Catholic Church in 110A.D. See post Are Catholics Christian?
Also, [...]
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BFH: “The Church that Jesus founded 2000 years ago is the Catholic Church. All of the Protestant denominations broke away; first from the Catholic Church and then from other Protestant groups.”
Z: I agree that what we now call the Roman Catholic Chruch is -part- of the Church that Christ founded. However, the RCC didn’t become [...]
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Q. I have belonged to an organization of believers, the Presbyterian Church USA as you may recall, that started to espouse beliefs that were in direct contradiction to the Word of God, such as acceptance of homosexuality even though it is an abomination to our God. When these things started gaining large scale [...]
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Q. I would like to converse with you. Look forward to hearing from you. It has been a long time.
A. I would love to converse with you about my conversion or the Catholic Faith. I have the fondest memories of you and M.
But let me warn you, a five word question can take paragraphs to [...]
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Q. I don’t understand how the church of one denomination can tell us who the saints are. The bible isn’t written to one denomination it is written to the whole body of Christ.
A. Actually, the New Testament was written by authors who belonged to the Catholic Church. And yes the Bible is for the whole [...]
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Q. Why is it accepted that the Catholic Church had the authority to change the Lord’s Day of Rest from the seventh day to Sunday, the first day of the week, when it is argued that women cannot be ordained, as the practice is not biblical??
A. Because Jesus gave His apostles, the first priests and [...]
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I have never gotten so many emails about boycotting something in particular as I have gotten about this movie. Many of you are probably aware of the serious evil involved in the trilogy of books on which the upcoming movie, The Golden Compass is based. The movie may lure people into buying the whole series [...]
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Q And just what gives the church, any church, such exclusivity on the truth? This is non-sense.
A. Well, I guess the fact that Jesus founded our Church and He is God the Son. But if you don’t believe that then of course you would not accept the authority of the Catholic Church.
Q. It’s a fallacious [...]
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Q. But Catholics believe things that are un-Scriptural. We can’t believe things that oppose scripture.
A. I agree. Nothing the Catholic Church teaches opposes anything in Scripture.
Our beliefs only oppose the Protestant INTERPRETATION of Scripture. That is different than opposing Scripture itself.
But then, this is exactly why there has to be some way to determine [...]
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Q. The quote I am posting below proves that the R.C. church teaches equality between scripture and the catechism.
The Documents of Vatican II
Hence there exist a close connection and communication between Sacred tradition and sacred Scripture. For
both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a [...]
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