Ronald Nolette
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Yup Ronald. I agree. The Protestant revolution of the 16th century has caused a lot of damage in the name of Christ.
As have all sects! As soon as man enters a chapel, it is no longer a perfect church.
The Apostles did NOT establish churches (plural). Paul did not establish a "gentile church" which was different than the churches established by the other Apostles.
Uh, Yes they did. Rome was not the center of teh church in the first 2 centuries. It was Jerusalem and then Antioch and Alexandria. The very fact that Jewish believers sought to undermine Pauls teachings show they were different understandings in teh church.
There is One Church with One teaching, and that Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, and that Church is where we are to take our differences when our brother sins against us....Just like Scripture says.
Yes and it is not an organization, but an organism and it is found in all sects of Christendom.
What happened is that the Apostles started new churches in different Cities and they assigned men to those cities that they had taught the truth too. ALL of those new churches, under the guidance of one elder, all taught the same thing. And if there was a difference in doctrine/practice etc among them those individual churches went to The Church to settle their differences: Council of Jerusalem, Acts 15. Soooo your 'gentile church that had no one single rule over it' is a lie someone taught you!
Wrong again. The council of Jerusalem was because Paul was teaching the gentiles the Jewish believers were not practicing. After the council, most Jewish believers kept the laws of Kashu while gentiles did not. Jewish believers kept the Jewish festivals, the gentiles did not. they had different practices. Gentile churches had little to no understanding of the OT. Sorry but the church was not unified! they had unity in what are called teh fundamentals of the faith, but many differences in other things. That is just hisotry!