Who is the Church? (*)
When did the Church begin? And is RCC have anything to do with the real Church?
A: Jesus Christ established his Church (Mt. 16:18) and He is the the cornerstone of it.
Church is not a building—it’s the redeemed. “Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body” (Colossians 1:18). “All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27)
The Church of the NT is not the RCC religion, no matter how long they lie about that or how long they keep teaching that lie.
RCC has told that lie so long to their parishioners are afraid theyll go to Hell if they leave it. So they don't even examine/study to find out the truth, (both from the Bible and history), as their fear & pride keeps them from doing so.
Christianity has nothing to do with the RCC religion. Even catholics outside the USA will clearly tell you this.
A common misconception is that Roman Catholicism was the original Church & the other false view is that the true church didn’t originate until 1500 (and that for 1500 years there were no true Christian’s). Protestants don’t believe the church ever died or got started in 1500, rather we make a distinction between the invisible church and the visible church. The invisible church is the Elect Ones and the visible church is comprised of buildings essentially (since even in local churches there are unsaved & false converts mingled in with the Redeemed). *You could say the visible church are the redeemed in local congregations but not everyone in a congregation is saved.
We know the invisible church has an unbroken line leading back all the way till Adam and this is the Church that "the gates of Hell won’t prevail against". The visible church hasn’t had the gates of Hell prevail against it but we believe it’s gone through ups and downs. The reformers were trying to reform and to bring RCC back to biblical truth. RCC rejected that and so Christians left it. Since the reformation people have been saved globally from out of false religions, and from among those raised in Christian (protestant) churches.
The religion of Roman Catholicism began in the 4th or 5th century after Constantine, where false teachings and heresy were added to Christianity, and they altered and hid Scripture and truth from the people to have power over them. (1)
the priests [had] ultimate power… a power to rule without question… a power to deceive… a power to extort money from the masses. Nobody could question their “Biblical” teachings, because few people other than priests could read Latin. The church capitalized on this forced-ignorance through the 1,000 year period from 400 AD to 1,400 AD knows as the “Dark and Middle Ages”.(2)
The Catholic Church teaches doctrines of demons. They are not Christian.
Know the teachings of Scripture (66) and you wont find yourself drawn to the apostasy of catholicism [or any false group] ever. You could never exchange the Truth for Lies, nor turn to Darkness if you are of the Light. You would never turn from Christ to apostasy or to Satan.
(1) Examine what Scripture teaches and why the RCC religion's teachings don't match it.
http://longertweets.blogspot.com/2022/04/curious.html
(2) https://greatsite.com/the-pre-reformation-history-of-the-bible-from-1400-bc-to-1400-ad/
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